The result was that ARR was mostly Soken’s work, with some of Nobuo Uematsu’s songs from 1.0 being so good that they remained in the reworked game.
And not only because the original release featured a soundtrack by the man who created the music for Final Fantasy as a whole. While these are all noteworthy titles to have worked on, taking on FFXIV must have been daunting. Prior to 2013, he composed music for 2006’s Dawn of Mana, Front Mission 5 (which sadly never saw an English release), a pair of Mario sports games, and some others.
The soundtrack to Final Fantasy XIV’s second coming, A Realm Reborn (aka 2.0), featured music largely by Masayoshi Soken.
