Chris
10-04-2008, 01:54 PM
Our Capcom coverage will be coming to a close towards the end of the month. At the moment, I haven't added any new composer coverage related to it, mostly because most composers have contributed to multiple series. However, I also have a dilemma about just who to cover as there are a lot of prolific composers, but only a few particularly well known ones. Here are ones I'd like to cover for sure:
Masami Ueda - Resident Evil 1 - 3, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami
Masato Kouda - Monster Hunter series, Wild Arms 4 / 5 / XF, Devil May Cry 1 & 2
Tetsuya Shibata - Devil May Cry 2 - 4, Power Stone 1 & 2, Auto Modelista, Resident Evil 5
Hideki Okugawa - Street Fighter III (maybe IV), Dead Rising, Onimusha 2 & 3, Gyakuten Saiban 4
Here are ones that I'm debating whether to cover:
Akari Kaida - Not a particularly prolific composer but has many major credits (Breath of Fire III, Luminous Arc, Mega Man EXE, etc.) so is pretty well-known
Yoshino Aoki - Similar applies. Only recently became a freelancer but Luminous Arc 2 and Suikoden Tierkreis are major credits
Ippo Yamada - Mega Man Zero, ZX, and 9 are big plus I might be able to clarify some misconceptions about what III is
Shusaku Uchiyama - Not very prolific but has made notable Resident Evil works and is attempting a freelance career
Here are important composers of early works that aren't well known:
Seiko Kobuchi
Yuki Iwai
Takayuki Iwai
Isao Abe
Yuko Takehara
Setsuo Yamamoto
Syun Nishigaki
In reality I'll probably cover all of these composers, but whereas some will get multi-page profiles and be listed on the revised composer index page (set to look more like this (http://www.vgmrush.com/artists.php)), others will get one page profiles and listed only on the Capcom composers / other composers pages. So who should get the exuberant treatment? The popular ones or the prolific ones?
Masami Ueda - Resident Evil 1 - 3, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Okami
Masato Kouda - Monster Hunter series, Wild Arms 4 / 5 / XF, Devil May Cry 1 & 2
Tetsuya Shibata - Devil May Cry 2 - 4, Power Stone 1 & 2, Auto Modelista, Resident Evil 5
Hideki Okugawa - Street Fighter III (maybe IV), Dead Rising, Onimusha 2 & 3, Gyakuten Saiban 4
Here are ones that I'm debating whether to cover:
Akari Kaida - Not a particularly prolific composer but has many major credits (Breath of Fire III, Luminous Arc, Mega Man EXE, etc.) so is pretty well-known
Yoshino Aoki - Similar applies. Only recently became a freelancer but Luminous Arc 2 and Suikoden Tierkreis are major credits
Ippo Yamada - Mega Man Zero, ZX, and 9 are big plus I might be able to clarify some misconceptions about what III is
Shusaku Uchiyama - Not very prolific but has made notable Resident Evil works and is attempting a freelance career
Here are important composers of early works that aren't well known:
Seiko Kobuchi
Yuki Iwai
Takayuki Iwai
Isao Abe
Yuko Takehara
Setsuo Yamamoto
Syun Nishigaki
In reality I'll probably cover all of these composers, but whereas some will get multi-page profiles and be listed on the revised composer index page (set to look more like this (http://www.vgmrush.com/artists.php)), others will get one page profiles and listed only on the Capcom composers / other composers pages. So who should get the exuberant treatment? The popular ones or the prolific ones?