I always begin to compose the melody first.

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

I always begin to compose the melody first.