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Over the next few years, she composed the soundtrack to several games, including Parasite Eve and Legend of Mana. Of all her compositions, Shimomura considers the soundtrack to Legend of Mana the one that best expresses herself and the soundtrack remains Shimomura's personal favourite.
- Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts is a role-playing adventure game, co-produced by Disney and Squaresoft. As well as sumptuous, piano-led electronic orchestral music by Shimomura, it features a voice cast that stars Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) and Hayden Panettiere (Heroes).
- Final Fantasy XV. Final Fantasy XV was one of the biggest video game releases of 2016. Whereas fellow video game composer Nobuo Uematsu was responsible for music earlier on in the franchise, Shimomura made a sweeping, Wagnerian epic of her score for the fifteenth chapter.
- Parasite Eve. In 1998, Square produced a video game version of Hideaki Sena’s 1995 novel Parasite Eve, which explores the power of microscopic cellular mitochondria – and what might have happened in an alternate universe where they split away from cellular life and formed a separate intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve.
- Legend of Mana. Yoko Shimomura took the pen for Mana in its third instalment, with composers Kenji Ito and Hiroki Kikuta, respectively, being her predecessors for the music.
Final Fantasy XV: Original Soundtrack is mainly composed by Yoko Shimomura, who is known for her involvement with the Kingdom Hearts series. Shimomura was responsible for at least 80% of the soundtrack; the rest of the pieces are variations of her compositions that were handled by other people.
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Oct 7, 2016 · Now, consider this: Back then, Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura had just been asked to work on Final Fantasy XV. She wrote the first track in 2006, while it was still called Final Fantasy...
- Nick Summers
Composer Yoko Shimomura’s soundtrack for the 2016 fantasy role-playing video game Final Fantasy XV captures both dusty highway vibes and the feeling of epic battles between good and evil. Created over a 10-year span, it includes swelling numbers built around violin (“Somnus”) and piano (“Sorrow Without Solace”) that add to the ...
Yoko Shimomura. Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack for the video game Kingdom Hearts. It was first released in Japan on March 27, 2002 by Toshiba-EMI, [32] and later released in Europe on November 25, 2002 by Virgin Records and the United States on March 23, 2003 by Walt Disney Records.
Listen to FINAL FANTASY XV Original Soundtrack on Spotify. Yoko Shimomura · Album · 2016 · 96 songs.
