Yasunori Mitsuda

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I was interested in it because, um, uh, Yasunori Mitsuda, uh, the Chrono Cross, um-

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... composer, uh, did-

And we're focusing on the recently released Another Eden Begins.

Let's start it off with To the Sky of Time from Another Eden Begins, released September 16th, 2026, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda.

To the Sky of Time Thank you.

Thank you.

It comes from much later in the series, and it's one of the most dramatic pieces Another Eden has that I could find.

One more from this soundtrack to close out our mini-spotlight.

This is A Light Never Forgotten from Another Eden Begins, released September 16th, 2026, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and Miriam Abanasar.

So, you you you Let's talk soundtrack for a minute, because it's fucking huge.

But yeah, I do find it puzzling as battle music.

That soaring one by Yasunori Mitsuda obviously has always struck me as incredible.

Incredibly strange, but it works is like this is the prettiest battle endgame Of all time you said that melody has such a we can do it friends It almost is a pop song and there's battle me though, he's a genius is yeah and I did save my favorite Final Fantasy XI piece of music for the end here.

And we can't listen to the whole thing because it's seven minutes long.

This is the one that was a mobile game.

Um, but it is, uh... features writing by Masato Kato or Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, um, who worked together on like Chrono Trigger-

Yeah, I was gonna say-

... or the Chrono games

It's the first time you get to hear Magus's theme in the game, which is one of the best songs in the game.

Also shout outs to Yasunori Mitsuda, who did most of the soundtrack.

Fun story about him is, He got to do most of the soundtrack because he threatened to quit Square because they weren't using him.

And so they basically said, all right, do this soundtrack.

So cheers to him.

Anytime I see his name attached to a game, I get excited because he's such a good and underrated songwriter.

Everybody always talks about Nobuo, but Yasunori Mitsuda, outstanding.

Just a great song.

And during the battle with the four fiends, I leaned over to my wife and said, we talked about this for an hour and a half.

One thing I learned just when the credits rolled up and I noticed this also on the liner notes for the records I bought, I did not know that Yasunori Mitsuda had contributed to the final fantasy 15 soundtrack.

And so I thought that was an interesting note And maybe in the future I'll play us Because one of the records I got has His piece from I think it's from the Ignis chapter Boy, is it incredible.

You'll be shocked to learn Yasunori Matsuda is good at writing music.

There's not really a big change in the music or anything is that if you do like the background music, you just keep hearing the background music going over and over again.

pros and cons to that because some of the background music and some open world rpgs is not as like yay it's just kind of boring but if you do like it that's plus one for the open world model yeah

But still, it's like, again, we're nitpicking at a piece of Yasunori Mitsuda music that's not one of my favorites, but it's still...

I think I even said when we covered it, I was like, I think this might be the only piece that when I listen to this soundtrack beginning to end, I'd sometimes skip it or, you know, I get through, I let it go through the loop once and I go, okay, okay, okay, let's...