
Volo Battle Theme
Go Ichinose
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Browse piano sheets by Go Ichinose on Zen Virtual Piano. Gō Ichinose recalls that in kindergarten he was forced to attend a swimming school and a music class. He kept crying about the swimming school until he did not have to attend any more, but he remained in the music class the whole time. Leaving swimming while staying in the music class suggests a taste for music even in kindergarten. He says he only entered Game Freak because he wanted to acquire some qualifications. Gō Ichinose is a Japanese video game composer best known for his work on the Pokémon series, and he joined Game Freak on November 22, 1993. Joining a company for a qualification suggests a career that grew out of an ordinary first step. Junichi Masuda brought him in to help with the soundtrack of Pokémon Gold and Silver. In a project where he was the sound leader, he supervised the compositions, the arrangements and the rest of the work. He called the most difficult song for him the battle theme of Hou’ou: he had imagined Hou’ou as a very peaceful creature and was worried that music that was too peaceful would undermine the player’s battle experience. A composer weighing a creature’s peaceful character against the needs of a battle shows how both the character and the gameplay pulled on the music. He has said that Pokémon tunes use “input music,” a special trait of the games. Naming “input music” as a special trait of the games suggests he hears the tunes as part of how the games are played. After Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Ichinose took a break from Pokémon to work on Pocket Card Jockey, and he returned in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
Browse piano sheets by Go Ichinose on Zen Virtual Piano.
Gō Ichinose recalls that in kindergarten he was forced to attend a swimming school and a music class. He kept crying about the swimming school until he did not have to attend any more, but he remained in the music class the whole time. Leaving swimming while staying in the music class suggests a taste for music even in kindergarten.
He says he only entered Game Freak because he wanted to acquire some qualifications. Gō Ichinose is a Japanese video game composer best known for his work on the Pokémon series, and he joined Game Freak on November 22, 1993. Joining a company for a qualification suggests a career that grew out of an ordinary first step. Junichi Masuda brought him in to help with the soundtrack of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
In a project where he was the sound leader, he supervised the compositions, the arrangements and the rest of the work. He called the most difficult song for him the battle theme of Hou’ou: he had imagined Hou’ou as a very peaceful creature and was worried that music that was too peaceful would undermine the player’s battle experience. A composer weighing a creature’s peaceful character against the needs of a battle shows how both the character and the gameplay pulled on the music.
He has said that Pokémon tunes use “input music,” a special trait of the games. Naming “input music” as a special trait of the games suggests he hears the tunes as part of how the games are played. After Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Ichinose took a break from Pokémon to work on Pocket Card Jockey, and he returned in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
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He supervised the compositions, the arrangements and the rest of the project.
On November 22, 1993; he has said he entered the company only to acquire some qualifications.
He took a break from Pokémon to work on Pocket Card Jockey, then returned for Pokémon Sun and Moon.