Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

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.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

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

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

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.