Hitoshi Sakimoto

Final Fantasy 12, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, Radiant Silvergun, Romeo x Juliet, Breath of Fire 5, Gradius 5, Ogre Battle, Legaia Duel Saga, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Stella Deus, Tactics Ogre.. Simply amazing..

Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁, Hitoshi Sakimoto?), born February 26, 1969, is a video game music composer.

He was born in 1969 and worked freelance beginning in 1990. When he was just starting out in the field of music, he would write his name as “YmoH.S”. In 1997, Sakimoto joined Square Co., Ltd.. Later on, in 2000, after completing his work on the action/RPG hybrid title Vagrant Story, he resigned from Square and once again became a freelance musician. He went on to establish Basiscape, an independent provider of audio and music for video games and other media.

As the founder of Basiscape Co., Ltd, Sakimoto has since been composing regularly for a variety of games as well as some commissions for various independent companies. He has recently completed Square Enix’s twelfth chapter in its central franchise, Final Fantasy XII , as well as the upcoming MMORPG Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion.

Also employed with Basiscape Co., Ltd. is Sakimoto’s long-time friend Masaharu Iwata, as well as Manabu Namiki, and Mitsuhiro Kaneda.