The Legend of Legacy Original Soundtrack
The Legend of Legacy is one the recent JRPG offerings available on the Nintendo 3DS. Released in January 2015 in Japan and just last month in North America, it’s touted as being the spiritual successor to the SaGa series. The soundtrack was composed by Masashi Hamauzu, and fans of his music will be happy to hear that this soundtrack comes with all of his usual flair and style.
When we last spoke to Masashi Hamauzu, he expressed much excitement over his then-upcoming album with Mina, “Black Ocean.” Up to that time, all we’d been able to hear from them was the IMERUAT debut single, which featured 3 songs (all included on, and remastered for, “Black Ocean”).
With the full album in our hands (presently available CD-only in Japan and Europe), we’re ready to talk about the duo that made Final Fantasy XIII so beautiful and vibrant. After the jump, our review of IMERUAT’s “Black Ocean.” (more…)
We at OSV have done a formal interview with Masashi Hamauzu, composer for Final Fantasy XIII and many other wonderful games, in the past. This time, I (Patrick) had a few minutes to do a more informal chat with Hamauzu-san. This interview took place mere minutes before the start of the Distant Worlds / VGO show in Boston.
In my haste to speak with Hamauzu-san, I failed to nab a photo of him, or of us. Hence, all I have to show you is the front of my “Piano Pieces SF 2” with his signature on it. Sorry about that.
In the following interview, we speak at length about his new duo IMERUAT (Hamauzu + Mina), working as a freelance composer, relationship with Square Enix, music-writing preferences, and more. Check it out after the jump! (more…)
It’s old news that Final Fantasy XIII composer Masashi Hamauzu has left Square Enix, but he hasn’t been in any hurry to tell the world about his new studio, MONOMUSIK. We still have no idea what Hamauzu has been up to since his departure aside from the Donkey Kong Country arrangement he created for Symphonic Legends, but we thought we would ask him what he was up to and talk about his amazing work on Final Fantasy XIII at some length. In fact, quite a great length.
While I normally wouldn’t bother going into this kind of detail, I do need to explain something before you read this, as some of the questions will sound very odd if I don’t. We wrote the majority of these questions back in November of 2009 before Hamauzu had left Square Enix. After his departure, we got in touch and added more questions. While he was busily working on our massive list of questions, the PLUS soundtrack and Piano Collections albums were released and announced, respectively, so we had to add even more questions. That’s why we ask him about the music heard in the game’s demo and the limited edition version of the original sound as neither were released at the time!
But enough my rambling! Hit the jump for the interview. (more…)
