Masaharu Iwata
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Masaharu Iwata (岩田匡治, Iwata Masaharu, a.k.a. REZON, born October 26, 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese video game music composer. This great friend of Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on many video games since 1987. His most well-known projects are Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, Treasure Hunter G, Final Fantasy Tactics, Baroque, Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity, and, most recently, Final Fantasy XII. He is now part of Basiscape, a video game music promotion company founded by Hitoshi Sakimoto.
[edit] Discography
- Magical Chase (1991): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (1993) Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (1995): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Treasure Hunter G (1996): Composer (in collaboration with John Pee, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Toshiaki Sakoda, Yoko Takada, Tomoko Matsui, and Akiko Goto)
- Final Fantasy Tactics (1997): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Baroque (1998)
- Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (1999): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Hayato Matsuo)
- Evolution: The World of Sacred Device (1999): Composer
- Evolution 2: Far Off Promise (1999): Composer
- 2197 (1999): Composer (one track titled "Tide Graph")
- Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis (2001): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity (2004): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Mushihime-sama (Insect Princess) (2005)
- Children of Mana (2006): Composer
- Final Fantasy XII (2006): (Selection of Music)
- Final Fantasy Tactics Shishi Sensō (The War of the Lions) (2007): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto, with an updated score)
- Odin Sphere (2007): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto, Kimihiro Abe, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Manabu Namiki)
- ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat (2007): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Opoona (2007): Composer (in collaboration with Hitoshi Sakimoto, Kimihiro Abe, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Noriyuki Kamikura, Manabu Namiki)