Soken created the fanfare for Square Enix Music TV, a monthly video feature where new album releases are discussed and interviews with Square Enix composers are conducted. He also participated in a Square Enix advertisement for pencils where he got beaten up by two robots the commercial featured music composed by him. Soken has also contributed to Square Enix advertisements Front Mission 5: Scars of the War (2005) featured the sports commercial song "Blue Stream", Soken's only composition in the game. In 2007, he scored the online game Elebest with Ai Yamashita. Soken also arranged a few tracks from previous Mana games, and performed the electric guitar for his arrangements. Along with Kenji Ito and Tsuyoshi Sekito, he created the soundtrack to Dawn of Mana (known as " Seiken Densetsu 4" in Japan), with Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto providing the main theme. The following year, Soken composed and arranged the score to Mario Hoops 3-on-3. In 2005, Soken worked on Drakengard 2 and Front Mission 5: Scars of the War.
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His debut as a composer came with the Japan-exclusive sports games Nichibeikan Pro Baseball: Final League, in which he was the sole composer, and World Fantasista with synthesizer programmer Takeharu Ishimoto. He assisted Kenji Ito on sports video games such as Gekikuukan Pro Baseball: The End of the Century 1999. He joined Square in 1998 and his early work at the company primarily focused on sound effect design, rather than composition. Rather than pursue a career in science, he was hired as a sound editor and designer at Konami.
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He was exposed to music at a young age-his father was a professional trumpet player and his mother taught piano. Soken is best known for being the lead composer and sound director of Final Fantasy XIV and its expansions, as well as the composer for Final Fantasy XVI.īorn in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Soken and his family later moved to Tokyo, where he attended the Tokyo University of Science, majoring in chemistry. Masayoshi Soken ( 祖堅 正慶, Soken Masayoshi, born January 10, 1975) is a Japanese video game composer and sound editor who has worked for Square Enix since 2001.
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