Nobuo Uematsu or Yasunori Mitsuda?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Of the two composers who've worked with Squaresoft, whose music do you prefer more? Nobuo Uematsu, most known for his work in the Final Fantasy series, or Yasunori Mitsuda, the man who did the Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, and Chrono Cross scores?

[edczxcvbnm]

Mitsuda but keep in mind he did do music for other Square games. Tobal comes to mind...I think.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I'm not familiar with the other Square games he did. If you can list them I'll add them to the initial post.

[edczxcvbnm]

Ask Kawaii. I just know he did other games and I believe the Tobal games are some of them.

[Hinky the Pickle]

I've never actually been too big of a fan of CT or CC's music and Xenogears doesn't exactly stand out to me. I've always really loved Nobou's work though.

[Germ Hamee]

Ah, the question never dies. Yasunori Mitsuda, hands down. He shows an amazing versatility, and unlike Uematsu, he's still young and has great future potential. It's been a long time since Uematsu's blown me away with a soundtrack. He's fantastic with melodies, but lately games are calling for more ambient music, and he sucks at it.

However, my faith in Mitsuda is definitely beginning to falter. It seems he's going too far trying to prove he's not just "the celtic guy." The music's been crap, with the definite exception of Moonlit Shadow.

[Destai]

Nobuo Uematsa can easily deliver a solid soundtrack with hand loads of verying tracks and moods. I think Yasunori Mitsuda usually makes slightly watered down tracks with the occasional gem in his soundtracks, But theres often alot of crap to wade through. The only soundtracks of Mitsudas Ive listened to is CC, CT, XG, XS episode I. CT had a fair bit of Nobuo in it. CC had alot of nice songs but alot of trash as well. I think Xenogears and Xenosaga were the same although both those soundtracks have some of my favourite songs in them.

[Germ Hamee]

I think Xenogears and Xenosaga were the same although both those soundtracks have some of my favourite songs in them.

o.O The same how?

[Destai]

I think Xenogears and Xenosaga were the same although both those soundtracks have some of my favourite songs in them.

o.O The same how?

In my opinion, alot of songs that were mediocre and some seriously great songs scattered among the mediocre ones. And I think theyre both better than CC

[Cless]

Nobuo, for the simple reason that I haven't played many games with Mitsuda's music in them. In fact, the only one I've played is Chrono Trigger. And while it had a great soundtrack, I think I'll need to hear a bit more of his work to judge whether he's better than Nobuo.

[Chris]

Nobuo Uematsu. I don't wanna explain why I chose him, just because. O_o

[edczxcvbnm]

Nobou has only one great song in my mind...thats right just one.

You are not alone! - FFIX.

[Germ Hamee]

Now that I think about it, the only soundtrack by Nobuo I felt was very solid and good throughout (I know ed is going to disagree on this one) was FFVI. Every other soundtrack had maybe one really good song and a couple decent ones... none of these being good enough to make me blow money on the soundtrack.

[GooeyToast]

I have to say Uetmatsu, simply because his songs seem to be alot more memorable & melody driven, which I like.

Mitsuda is a very good composer though, but I don't think he can mesure up to Uetmatsu quite yet. Granted, I loved CC's and Ct's soundtrack, and there are a lot of very good songs on those, but i have so many favorite FF songs, I can't even list them all.

However, seeing as how Uematsu is begining to lose some of the magic that he used to have (yes, he is), I wouldn't be suprised if Mitsuda stepped up and became the next Nobuo. In fact, it seems he's almost gotten to that point and he's still got many years ahead of him.

But, for the time being, Uetmatsu is still my favorite.

[squareSOFT]

Nobuo Uematsu is just a plain legend. His music can be remembered like none other. Not that Mitsuda is bad by any stretch but Uematsu's scores just seem more moving and are usually perfect for setting the mood.