Good for him. He’s made some of my most favorite music, and for that I am forever grateful. I’ve read about his work ethic, and the fact that he’s still alive blows. I’m glad to hear he’s going to take it easy.

This guy made some of the best video game music of all time. I hope he has a long, healthy retirement.

A black and white photo of someone famous and the headline starts with their name and greatest achievement, I tensed up for a moment.

Nobuo Uematsu and Koji Kondo should be as famous as John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Composed the soundtracks of our lives, even to people who aren’t gamers.

Edit: and Yasunori Mitsuda! Almost forgot about him

Man… I still use FF 6 (3 on snes) music as transition music on a community radio show (devil’s lab, the magitech factory music) I do. guys a fuckin legend

He has created an exceptional body of work I listen to in various ways almost daily. I imagine he has inspired many generations of musicians and composers these past near four decades.

So he can make a new The Black Mages album?

Cheers to him.

FFX music was pretty awesome.

[update: this was a misunderstanding]

Here’s the update for convenience

(… saw this on my feed, only just thought to check the community itself to see if there was another post, my bad)

Bro, could you have added like 1 or 2 other victory tunes at the end of battles in ff7? Random encounters were like every 5 seconds. The victory song was played like every minute.

He’s earned it. Hopefully retirement doesn’t suit him though and we get another Mistwalker OST.

Fair enough, the dude’s been writing bangers for decades already

Du du du dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da

Dun dun clap clap dun dun clap!