great. it really isnt kh without yoko's wonderful scores in the background

I'm curious to see if Ishimoto, or Sekito are involved.

Expect, but great news anyway.

I swear, she was giving me a heart attack the entire 2-3 minutes she was rushing through with her final comments. Glad to see she's announced it outright. It really doesn't need a confirmation, but some fans do prefer information straight from the mouths of the staff before they believe it, even if it's obvious.

Can't wait til we hear the first track from KH3.

I'm assuming she's referring to KHx's Dearly Beloved with that other comment. I remember she had replied to Ethy previously to confirm that it's a new composition by her!

She also mentioned she wants to do a concert and a new CD. I would love both, and for the second to be KH remastered album~

Yeah, this is what I'm definitely waiting more info about. We'll probably find out closer to release in the next few years when everything is more real.



Of course. It is nice to hear it straight from her, though. We rarely see Shimomura in a public setting doing interviews, so whatever piece of info she has even if it is expected (or p much confirmed) is nice.



Yeah *u*

Why were they involved with BBS and DDD?

Anyway, I'd prefer if they weren't. I like I and II's ost more than BBS's and DDD's.

I am very excited about the great soundtracks that awaits us!
And i wanna know how the intro song will be like and if Utada will sing it again.

It was to be expected, but nice to see it being confirmed either way.

I hope there's more Ishimoto involvement as well. The guy's work on Type-0 (*sobsob* really wanna play that game) never fails to impress me, even after so many listens. Not too familiar with Sekito's work, but I know the tracks he's done for Kingdom Hearts. It would be cool to see more of him as well!

And we all know who else we want to see returning...Utada, where r u, gurl?

It's not really clear why.

Please no midi in KHIII. PLEASE NO MIDI. I can't go back to those goddamn violins from KHII, I can't do it, man. I.5 has treated me too nicely.

Dude those violins are too nice lmao

MOAR VIOLINS

Why would it be midi? A lot of Shimomura's compositions seem to be made for live orchestral and with the PS4 having the power and space for that kind of quality and because 1.5 has orchesrtral, and Shimomura has a major obsession with the demon violins and piano, it will just have to be orchestra.

Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate KH2's OST with a burning passion.



Ishimoto's style is a lot more rounded and edgy. He can go from hip-hop to j-pop girl band to orchestrated beauty at any moment's notice. Also his BBS tracks are honestly really good. I can't imagine fighting Vanitas without his music.

Keiji Kawamori, everybody's favorite synth programmer at SE since forever and bassist in the Black Mages (Uematsu's band), asked Ishimoto to join on to BBS.

"My involvement began with a single phone call from Kawamori of the sound staff, saying "can you help?". My suprised reaction of "What, not me??" was met with a no, "we're going with you, Ishimoto". We began sort of like, "okay, but I want to choose which tracks I do". In the beginning I was quite anxious, but with the way it turned out, I am now filled with gladness that we did it that way. It's always great to have a chance to try new things, and I've learned that it's important to take that first step without complaint."

And Sekito has known Shimomura for years, well known for working on games like Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve II, Brave Fencer Musashi, the Last Remnant and a lot more, and I'm sure Shimomura and Kawamori wanted his help on BBS.

For KH3D, it was known that TWEWY would be in the game and since TWEWY is composed by Ishimoto, it was pretty much up to him to make the new arrangements. Then he saw Tron: Legacy and immediately asked to compose those songs as well. He's no Daft Punk or Joseph Trapanese but his own style leans toward what was needed for the Grid. I think Shimomura was kind of happy to not have to do it xD

It looks like Sekito was approached as well about KH3D and said yes. His style definitely fit the "Dream" theme Nomura wanted out of the OST.

I think with such a big project that KH3 will be in terms of music, I would probably expect them again if there is a lot of work and a specific style needed that they work well with.

I personally hated KH2's direction. It wasn't bad, but nothing from that game was very memorable besides "Riku" and "Roxas"/"The Other Promise" and it all sounded like a mess on the PS2. I think it has to do with the weird synth direction, which is why I hope this time for 2.5 Shimomura can rearrange and orchestrate ALL of KH2's OST because there are quite a few songs that would benefit from the addition of some live music power behind the notes.

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We probably wouldn't learn who is singing the theme for the game until the year they are ready to release.



I cry over Ishimoto's OST for Type-0. Honestly his best work yet. I love TWEWY, I love CCFFVII, but Type-0 will probably go down as the game he is best known for because it is such a powerful album.



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Yes please ;A;

Omg, that picture. Someone get Yoko a keyblade to pose with. xD Who is with her, btw?

And it's nice to have some shred of info on KHIII, even if it was predictable. Woman definitely has her plate full with some pretty overwhelming titles.

I knew I forgot something under the pic. The man with the tea at his nose is Kenji Ito, best known for composing for the SaGa series, Legend of Mana series. Yasunori Mitsuda is the guy in the back, best known for his work on Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Chrono Cross...

i didnt think that Yoko would compose for kh chi. the woman really is dedicated to kh :)

Well, glad to know she's back. ^ _^ I really couldn't imagine the KH games without her beautiful music.:3 Can't wait to hear the KH3 music as I play it.

Glad to see this. It just wouldn't be Kingdom Hearts without her amazing music!

I personally hated KH2's direction. It wasn't bad, but nothing from that game was very memorable besides "Riku" and "Roxas"/"The Other Promise" and it all sounded like a mess on the PS2. I think it has to do with the weird synth direction, which is why I hope this time for 2.5 Shimomura can rearrange and orchestrate ALL of KH2's OST because there are quite a few songs that would benefit from the addition of some live music power behind the notes.

It was definitely the synth direction. In terms of compositions I actually like more songs from KH2 than KH1, but the way the tracks were synthed really messed up a lot of the tracks. KH2 strings were gross, so glad that they did them properly in BBS

I for one, am shocked by this news.

Okay... I clearly need to take a nap, because when I first saw this, I thought it said Utada Hikaru instead of Yoko Shimomura. Wishful thinking, I guess?

ANYWAY, this is great news and something I'm more than happy to hear about. Really, if anyone but Shimomura ever composes for the series, it'll be a very sad day, in my opinion.

And I'm also glad that we got a snippet of KHIII news at TGS via this announcement. Granted it's small (and something we all knew would happen, anyway), but I very much appreciate it all the same. Heck, after seven years of hearing nothing about KHIII, it's nice to even hear the name in a truthful statement.

Welp, DE23 here I come, I guess:)

This is good news but obvious. The fact there have been no new details on KH 3 and no announcement for 2.5 is killing me.

It's interesting that Ishimoto worked on BBS and DDS as a composer, especially when he was the (less than stellar) synthesiser operator for KH2. I guess the switch to streamed music as opposed to sequenced music (from BBS onwards) really made a difference to the sounds of the series. Although, if you look at music for KH2, some of the sounds were streamed because they clearly couldn't be handled by the synth engine. The most obvious example of this is the saxophone in "A Lazy Afternoon". There are wav files with the sax melody, and they are streamed with the bgm file of the track.

Well it isn't like Ishimoto is a bad composer, or even bad at being a synth operator since that was his primary job before they started giving him games to compose for. The way it sounds from your description, they were aiming for higher quality sound and semi-complex layering but didn't really know how to approach it. It sounded fine in 2006 but looking back it sounds really weird.

The original Traverse Town music track was the same, having the main melody as an actual musical performance, but all the other makings of the song be MIDI.

Idk, I prefer KH2 over BBS, although I will admit KH3D got me to love the BBS style. I don't get why some people think the synth was messy w/ KH2.

The Encounter
Desire for All that Is Lost
A Fight to the Death
Tension Rising
13th Dilemma

Need I go on? Not to mention the idea of recurring boss themes was really cool, like when you heard the intro to one of the songs, you knew s**t was about to go down (The Encounter FTW).

I don't really have too many memorable tracks from BBS, besdes Enter the Darkness (which really was Ishimoto), Black Powder, etc. Sure the important themes were done beautifully, like Aqua, Ven, but I hate how BBS got you a generic energy rave theme for bosses instead of that OH S**T feeling. Yoko did go all out on KH3D, though, along with Sekito and Ishimoto.

Untamable, Ice-Hot Lobster, All for One, Deep Drop, L'impeto Oscuro, and all the others like that were AMAZING.

Dismiss and Dark Impetus and Hunter of the Dark were also in the BBS OST ;).

And in terms of the generic boss themes (I assume you're referring to The Tumbling and Unforgettable?) you've also got Extreme Encounters, alongside the returners Vim and Vigor, The Encounter, Shrouding Dark Cloud, Rowdy Rumble

In terms of DDD, my personal opinion was that the boss themes for the dream eaters were weaker than the series' main boss themes. Looking at the OST i note that they were mostly composed by Sekito, and I think it shows because they are so different.

I think the most interesting to see for KH3, will be how the final boss track will sound (assuming its MX). Because if you think about all the tracks linked to MX , there's a lot!!!

Starting with KH1 - Forze del Male (ASoD), Guardando Nel Buio
Re:COM: Revenge of Chaos (which although wasnt an MX Derivative, it dealt with darkness)
KH2: Disappeared, Darkness of the Unknown (Xemnas - linking in the Organisations theme as well)
BBS: Rage Awakened (AX), Black Powder, (MX), Dark Impetus (MF), forze dell'oscurita (Armor), Xehanort (MX)
DDD: L'impero oscura (YX) L'emineza oscura I/II (darkness), L'oscurita dell'ignoto (Xemnas), Xigbar

Throw in the Organisation XIII, and probably Terra and the Fate of the Unknown and you've got a hell of a lot of tracks/remixes and themes to work in. And dearly beloved and destati will likely eb in there somewhere.

TLDR: Eargasm!

WOOP! Not disappointed by this news ^_^ I noticed that the KH staff that has usually been behind the scenes has been out a lot more lately. Between Japan Expo, E3, and various other events, it's nice to see them getting out more often. I hope they eventually attend ALL conventions (pipe dream, but still a dream)...

Awesome! The music is one of the best parts about the KH series in my opinion!

WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG

I don't follow the names of the tracks like most of you guys appear to, so it's TOTALLY going over my head. But I'm so very glad that Shimomura is composing for KH again! I hope she really enjoys doing this game~ And ALL of them, really :3

do you think any of her musix in kingdom hearts 3 will make us shed a tear or be so emotional since this game will have a lot of emotional moments probaly?

It's Shimomoura...I'm pretty darn sure she can do what she wants with our emotional lives if she wants to lol

Her music made me emotion over a character I hated for the entire game. So...yeah. I'm pretty sure she'll do it for KH3.

Which character did she give you feels for? X3

She's a musical magician~

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Xion. Who is probably the most base breaking character in the series.

I feel the same except with a certain Earthy BBS character.

This "Earthy BbS character"...Would he happen to have a grating voice and weird sense of right and wrong? XD

She can make us love even the oddballs :)