5. The Role of Role Play (2014)
Almost a decade before names like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest started to make an appearance around the world, role playing games were already a big deal in Japan. In fact, they were so important that games companies were employing the likes of Koichi Sugiyama, one of Japan’s most respected classical composers to give the 8-bit and 16-bit sound a sophistication never heard before. In this episode, we follow the music of Final Fantasy as the compositions of Nobuo Uematsu come full circle. In their early incarnations, it was 8-bit music imitating the orchestral sound. Nowadays, some of the world’s leading orchestras perform the music that once strove to elevate itself to their level.
Release date: 2014-10-02
Season number: 1
Episode number: 5
Runtime: 20 minutes
Guest stars
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Thomas Böcker - Himself, Jonne Valtonen - Himself, Roger Wanamo - Himself
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Haruhisa Tanaka - Himself, Yuichi Uchizawa - Himself, Peter Berkman - Himself, Phillipa Margaret Brown - Herself, Justin Smith - Himself, Jason Jackson - Himself