Longtime recreation composer Nobuo Uematsu revealed he’ll retire after the launch of Fantasian: Neo Dimension in December.In a video selling the RPG, he referred to as it his “closing challenge as a composer of online game music.” As such, he naturally hopes gamers purchase the sport.Earlier this 12 months, Uematsu admitted he could not “have the bodily and psychological energy” to compose music for a complete recreation anymore. The 65-year-old musician beforehand stepped away from his initiatives in 2018 because of the bodily and emotional stress.A really temporary historical past of Nobuo Uematsu’s online game musicUematsu begn making music for video video games (and Sq. Enix) with 1986’s Cruise Chaser Blasty alongside Takashi Uno. That 12 months and 1987, his work included 3-D World Runner, Alien: Aliens 2, King’s Knight, and the primary Ultimate Fantasy.His work grew to become a defining factor of Sq. Enix’s RPG franchise, both on his personal or with co-composers like Masashi Hamauzu, Kumi Tanioka, and extra.In 2004, Uematsu left Sq. Enix as a full-time worker, however he continued to work carefully with the sequence. He dealt with the primary musical themes for many mainline Ultimate Fantasy entries.The variety of video games he labored on exterior of that sequence is equally sizable, and contains Blue Dragon, Tremendous Smash Bros. Brawl, and naturally, Fantasian.Outdoors of video games, he has completed music for movie and anime…a few of which was based mostly on Fantasy or Granblue Fantasy, one other sequence he composed for. His music has acquired acclaim all through the years and been carried out at concert events.Whereas seemingly retired post-Fantasian, Uematsu beforehand stated he could be “honored” to be concerned within the third, presently unannounced recreation within the Ultimate Fantasy 7 remake trilogy in some capability.