Noriyuki Iwadare
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Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂徳行: Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game music composer. He was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. The first award he won the Best Game Music award, the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in U.S.) category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Sega Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works. Recent information about Iwadare's early employment with Capcom and Nintendo has unearthed that he has composed for several NES games, under multiple pseudonyms such as Intel, Hanast and Oregetsu. Although unlisted on his website, NES author's list has credited him for World Track Meet, Chip n Dale, Duck Tales, and Megaman 2 among others
[edit] Popular Soundtracks
These are some of the soundtracks he has composed.
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Wacky Kingdom
- Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends
- Grandia Original Soundtracks 1 & 2
- Grandia Vent
- Grandia (Best Of)
- Grandia II: Deus
- Grandia II: Povo
- Grandia II: Melodia
- Grandia Xtreme
- Grandia III
- Grandia Online/Grandia Zero (Game & OST Not Yet Released - Work In Progress)
- True Love Story 3
- Growlanser
- Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice
- Langrisser Series
- Lunar Series
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
- Radiata Stories
- Phoenix Wright Orchestrated Soundtrack(PC)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl[1]