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"What would Uematsu do?": Final Fantasy 14 composer Masayoshi Soken on following series legend


Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida is the predominant and popular figurehead for the MMORPG, but ther…

That led to not only the regular piano concerts at the Fan Fest events, but the development team's in-house rock band The Primals (named after the game's summonable monsters), with Soken on electric guitar alongside localisation director Michael-Christopher Koji Fox fronting on vocals. Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.2 - Seekers of Eternity Watch on YouTube Notably, Soken was secretly battling cancer during development of the Shadowbringers expansion. Dawntrail includes plenty of jazz and big band influences for its jolly adventure | Image credit: Square Enix / Eurogamer How do you feel your compositions have evolved over the course of Final Fantasy 14's expansions?

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