Masaharu Iwata



Masaharu Iwata is one of the three founding members of Basiscape, the other two being Hitoshi Sakimoto and Manabu Namiki. He usually collaborates with Hitoshi Sakimoto, or with Basiscape in general.

His style tends to emphasize a consistent rhythm, and is slightly more conservative about instrument variety in a single song than Hitoshi Sakimoto. It's pretty dang hard to tell them apart oftentimes, since they've been working together for so long, unless the liner notes or CD info explicitly state which songs were done by which artist.

He has been the lead composer for:
 * Baroque
 * Evolution

With Hitoshi Sakimoto:
 * Deltora Quest
 * Final Fantasy Tactics
 * Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 * Final Fantasy Tactics A2
 * Gauntlet (1985 video game) 4
 * Grim Grimoire
 * Ogre Battle
 * Revolter
 * Shippu Mahou Daisakusen
 * Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity
 * Tactics Ogre
 * Verytex

In collaboration with others:
 * Soul Calibur IV