The story behind Katamari Forever’s music
Kazuhito Udetsu, producer for Namco Bandai Games, took the time to introduce Yuu Miyake, the sound director for Katamari Forever, on the PS Blog. In their tow is the music for the latest Katamari game on the PS3, and they sure have a lot — good ones, too. Miyake describes what they went through in formulating the perfect soundtrack for the game franchise, and shares a couple of new gameplay videos as well. Check them out after the jump.
Kazuhito Udetsu, producer for Namco Bandai Games, took the time to introduce Yuu Miyake, the sound director for Katamari Forever, on the PS Blog. In their tow is the music for the latest Katamari game on the PS3, and they sure have a lot — good ones, too.
Miyake describes what they went through in formulating the perfect soundtrack for the game franchise:
Katamari ForeverÂ’s soundtrack consists of remixes of past Katamari songs. Let me briefly talk about why this is. Since the first game, Katamari Damacy, was originally only released in Japan, we wanted Japanese singers who were well-known in Japan but nobody had heard from in awhile for whatever reason.
For the second game we wanted to do the same thing but with foreign artists. However, this didnÂ’t happen because of our lack of foreign friends and ability to negotiate. For this game we thought it would be a good idea to have those tunes remixed or arranged by Japanese and non-Japanese artists as sort of a musical trilogy (Oh, did you notice that Katamari Forever is the third title for a PlayStation console? Not that it really means anything though.).
So in a nutshell, what you will find in Katamari Forever are two streams of music: electric and organic. They also shared with us two new game videos, so without further ado:
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