Hitoshi Sakimoto
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Hitoshi Sakimoto is the head of Basiscape, a group of Japanese video game composers co-founded by Masaharu Iwata and Manabu Namiki. He has a strong partnership with Masaharu Iwata, working together since their very first game soundtrack for an obscure game on the PC-8801. Other frequent collaborators are: Hayato Matsuo, Ayako Saso, Shinji Hosoe, Hiroto Saitoh, and Takayuki Aihara.
He frequently works with Yasumi Matsuno (currently at Level 5), indie game publisher Atlus, and the development team for the Valkyria Chronicles series. He has a very distinctive style that could best be described as "as grandiose and epic as humans are able to bear."
Incomplete Crowning Music of Awesome page here
Lead Composer or with Masaharu Iwata:
- Archaic Sealed Heat
- Bad Omen (a.k.a. Devilish)
- Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
- Crystal Defenders
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Final Fantasy Tactics A2
- Final Fantasy XII
- Gauntlet (1985 video game) 4
- Gradius V
- Grim Grimoire
- Hourai Gakuen
- Master Of Monsters
- Ogre Battle
- Radiant Silvergun
- Revolter
- Romeo X Juliet
- Shippu Mahou Daisakusen
- Soukyugurentai (a.k.a. Terra Driver)
- Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity
- Super Back to The Future Part II
- Tactics Ogre
- Vagrant Story
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Valkyria Chronicles II
- Valkyria Chronicles III
Remixes / "arrange" / unused / location test songs: