Akari Kaida: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Breath of Fire III (Video Game)|Breath of Fire III]]'': (1997, along with [[Yoshino Aoki]]): Akari Kaida composed the majority of this game's music, and also sang the ending song with Yoshino Aoki—this soundtrack is one of Kaida's most memorable works. When ''BoF3'' was released, its music was a somewhat [[Love It or Hate It|controversial point]]—some people lauded the creative use of jazz+funk music in the fantasy setting, while others thought jazz [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|had no place]] in any fantasy RPG. Kaida did not return to compose ''[[Breath of Fire IV (Video Game)|Breath of Fire IV]]'', which was composed entirely by Aoki (though with an arrangement of a song or two Kaida had composed for ''BoF3''). As years have passed, the music of ''BoF3'' has aged fairly well.

* ''[[Cyberbots: (VideoFull Game)Metal Madness|Cyberbots]]: Full Metal Madness'' (1994, along with [[Takayuki Iwai]], [[Masato Koda]] and [[Naoaki Iwami]])

* ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge]]'' (1995)

* ''[[Mega Man and Bass (Video Game)|Mega Man and Bass]]'' (1998, along with [[Naoshi Mizuta]] and [[Toshihiko Horiyama]])

* ''[[Mega Man 10 (Video Game)|Mega Man 10]]'' (2010, along with [[Minae Fujii]], [[Yasuaki Fujita]], [[Hiroki Isogai]], [[Ryo Kawakami]], [[Manami Matsumae]], [[Yu Shimoda]], [[Yuko Takehara]], [[Makoto Tomozawa]], [[Shusaku Uchiyama]], [[Ippo Yamada]] and [[Mari Yamaguchi]]): A different composer (all of whom were ''Mega Man'' series music veterans) composed the stage music for each of the game's eight robots. Akari Kaida composed Blade Man's theme.

* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]]'' (2001): She composed ''1'' and ''5'', but ''2'', ''3'' and ''6'' were composed by her ''[[Breath of Fire III (Video Game)|Breath of Fire III]]'' co-composer [[Yoshino Aoki]]. [[Toshihiko Horiyama]] composed ''4''. The sequels however featured arrangements of recurring songs Kaida had originally composed for the first game.

** Samples: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cplRj1b2b9c Fire Field]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ2VGMU_Xb4 Home Town]" (also very similar to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-1fDfn8f4 In the Morning]" from ''[[Breath of Fire III (Video Game)|Breath of Fire III]]'' also by Akari Kaida), "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjYZ9MKSEi4 Net Battle]"

* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 5'' (2004 Game Boy Advance version only)

* ''[[Mega Man Star Force (Video Game)|Mega Man Star Force]] 3'' (2008, along with [[Yoshino Aoki]])

* ''[[Okami (Video Game)Ōkami|Okami]]'' (2006, credited as Akari Groves, composed along with [[Hiroyuki Hamada]], [[Rei Kondo]], [[Masami Ueda]] and [[Hiroshi Yamaguchi]])