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Fei
10-21-2003, 10:30 PM
Hey people.
First, sorry for my english ; I hope you'll understand me.
I saw Shinji Hosoe's name here -> http://www.monolithsoft.co.jp/left/special/l-special-xeno2-2.html instead of Yuki kajiura and I am wondering what is his real work on XSII.
Is He composer or co-composer ?
I hope that someone can read japanese here ^^!
cloudff7
10-24-2003, 07:35 AM
From what I remember reading and when looking at the screenshots from E3 at RPGfan.com, you can see the name Yuki Kaijura. He may be a co-composer, but all I know is Yuki is taking the place of Mitsuda.
CocoeBiz
10-24-2003, 07:44 AM
Hey people.
First, sorry for my english ; I hope you'll understand me.
I saw Shinji Hosoe's name here -> http://www.monolithsoft.co.jp/left/special/l-special-xeno2-2.html instead of Yuki kajiura and I am wondering what is his real work on XSII.
Is He composer or co-composer ?
I hope that someone can read japanese here ^^!

Hello Fei,
Welcome to the forum! I hope you enjoy your stay here! :)

I will try to explain who and what the composers are doing on Xenosaga Episode II.

Shinji Hosoe is the composer for the game and Yuki Kajiura is the composer for the Opening Theme and Movie parts in the game.

I'm sorry but we cannot announce more details until it is officially released by Namco Japan.

Thank you,
CocoeBiz :)
Carl
10-24-2003, 01:37 PM
Shinji Hosoe is the composer for the game and Yuki Kajiura is the composer for the Opening Theme and Movie parts in the game.


This is becoming more of a common scenario these days =)

To have one person doing the in-game BGM, while another person composes for the Cinema scenes...

It can work well when done right, and at least has the chance to give more variety... In the case of Xenogears II (edit: XenoSAGA II), there certainly will be a noticeable difference in styles =)

We'll have to wait and see how it turns out!
KujaFFman
10-24-2003, 04:50 PM
What's more, the one doing in-game BGM is not credited at first, even if his work is better. They choose the most famous... (I'm thinking of Metal Gear Solid 2, poor Norihiko Hibino !)
cloudff7
10-28-2003, 09:13 AM
As long as the soundtrack has more tracks than the previous. While Yasunori's music was amazing, too many tracks repeated in the game, which made it montonous.
Existensia
12-03-2003, 12:17 PM
As long as the soundtrack has more tracks than the previous. While Yasunori's music was amazing, too many tracks repeated in the game, which made it montonous.

My thoughts exactly! Such an epic game should have no fewer tracks than 80. The 40-some that Xenosaga Episode I had was grossly inadequate. Should have been more - you're right about that.

In any case, that's interesting. It'll be great to see how Shinji Hosoe handles Xenosaga Episode II.