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Eterna Forest
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Browse piano sheets by Hitomi Sato on Zen Virtual Piano. Sato recalls that before she could talk her father played her a record with yodeling, and that one morning she stood up on her futon and yodeled. She says she began playing the piano at age 3 and continued until her second year of high school, and that because she always went to Christian-oriented schools she knew hymns well and listened to little besides hymns and piano music until she was 17 or 18. A girl who yodeled before she could speak and then spent her teens with hymns and piano seems to have taken in sound very early. She says that a job advertisement said Game Freak was looking for planners, and that she worked as a planner for about 7 or 8 years before she heard that someone on the sound staff had quit. Besides music, a notable contribution of hers was the idea of a playable female character, which led to the creation of Kris. An idea for a playable character alongside planning work and a place on the sound staff shows contributions that went beyond one role. Sato says she works the opposite way from some composers: if she does not sit at a desk nothing comes out, and when she thinks she has little time left, everything comes out at once. She is credited with composition and arrangement on Eterna Forest, and she says the original piece was made with a forest-like image in mind but that, on hearing the arrangement, it became a lake-like piece. Hearing a forest piece turn into a lake in the arranging suggests that the sound could drift away from the picture she began with. She names Route 206 (Day), on Disc 2, Track 36, as the first piece she ever made. She left Game Freak after Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and she also provided music to Little Town Hero along with Toby Fox. A first piece made for a single route hints that her music began as part of one particular place in the game.
Browse piano sheets by Hitomi Sato on Zen Virtual Piano.
Sato recalls that before she could talk her father played her a record with yodeling, and that one morning she stood up on her futon and yodeled. She says she began playing the piano at age 3 and continued until her second year of high school, and that because she always went to Christian-oriented schools she knew hymns well and listened to little besides hymns and piano music until she was 17 or 18. A girl who yodeled before she could speak and then spent her teens with hymns and piano seems to have taken in sound very early.
She says that a job advertisement said Game Freak was looking for planners, and that she worked as a planner for about 7 or 8 years before she heard that someone on the sound staff had quit. Besides music, a notable contribution of hers was the idea of a playable female character, which led to the creation of Kris. An idea for a playable character alongside planning work and a place on the sound staff shows contributions that went beyond one role.
Sato says she works the opposite way from some composers: if she does not sit at a desk nothing comes out, and when she thinks she has little time left, everything comes out at once. She is credited with composition and arrangement on Eterna Forest, and she says the original piece was made with a forest-like image in mind but that, on hearing the arrangement, it became a lake-like piece. Hearing a forest piece turn into a lake in the arranging suggests that the sound could drift away from the picture she began with.
She names Route 206 (Day), on Disc 2, Track 36, as the first piece she ever made. She left Game Freak after Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and she also provided music to Little Town Hero along with Toby Fox. A first piece made for a single route hints that her music began as part of one particular place in the game.
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Hitomi Satō worked as a planner for about 7 or 8 years and then on the sound staff at Game Freak.
She is credited with composition and arrangement on Eterna Forest.
A notable contribution of hers was the idea of a playable female character, which led to the creation of Kris.
She provided music to Little Town Hero along with Toby Fox.