A lot of people have been watching this game very closely. Created by Hironobu Sakaguchi at Mistwalker, people immediately drew comparisons to Final Fantasy, at least in game title. What we were most interested in, however, was Nobuo Uematsu’s involvement, which is almost always a sure thing when Sakaguchi is making a new game. The…
Benyamin Nuss is a talent to remember. Discovered by Winfried Fechner of the WDR at an early age, he has skyrocketed onto the scene at a rate rarely seen since his debut into the game music world with his performances on Symphonic Shades. As Nuss took his place and amazed the crowd at Symphonic Fantasies,…
We hope you enjoyed our unboxing video of the Final Fantasy XIV Field Tracks and Battle Tracks mini-albums last week. It should have given you an idea of just how unique the packaging is for these two discs, but we’ve since given both albums an exhaustive listen and are ready to discuss Uematsu’s return to…
So, this article has been sitting in our backend here at OSV for nearly a year. After Shota and I sat down for our extensive interview with Nobuo Uematsu and Hiroki Ogawa after the Distant Worlds concert in San Francisco, I prepared a list of items that fell outside of the recorded interview. It’s taken…
“Who is this man and why is he doing Uematsu?” you might be saying right now. This handsome young fellow is Benyamin Nuss, the piano maestro who performed on the Symphonic Shades album and was also part of the Symphonic Fantasies lineup last year where he performed Kingdom Hearts live with an orchestra. His skills…
Out with The Black Mages, in with the Earthbound Papas? Who knows! There’s a post on the Dog Ear Records blog about Nobuo Uematsu’s new band, the Eartbound Papas, who will apparently be featured as the accompanying band during the “Dancing Mad” segment of the Distant Worlds II concerts. As to who’s in the band…
There’s only a week left to enter our Nobuo Uematsu’s 10 Short Stories Limited Edition contest. We had a lot of the fun with the album, and highly recommend checking it out. Here’s your chance to do it for free! The Limited Edition version is a physical release from Japan, complete with fancy packaging and…
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