History Music / YasunoriMitsuda

Currently, Mitsuda has a music production company called [[http://www.procyon-studio.com/ Procyon Studio]] that works on various media, including his original medium, video games. Some of the non-game media he has composed for since founding this company includes ''Manga/BlackButler'' and ''Literature/IrinaTheVampireCosmonaut''.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' (2022, along with [[Music/{{Ace}} ACE+]], Music/ManamiKiyota, and Mariam Abounassr)

* ''VideoGame/SeaOfStars'' (2022)

Originally, despite having been hired as a composer, he didn't do much composing (aside from sound effects), mostly working as a sound engineer. Naturally, he wasn't content with not being able to do what he applied for in the first place, so he threatened to quit unless he could do some actual composing. The result? ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'''s SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. Well, the majority of it, anyway -- Mitsuda overdid his work and due to stress he ended up with stomach ulcers that prevented him from finishing it. In his place, veteran Square composer Creator/NobuoUematsu (who at the time mainly composed for ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games) filled in, finishing the remaining ten songs.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' (1995 -- along with Creator/NobuoUematsu and Noriko Matsueda): His first official music composition work, and still his favorite.

* ''VideoGame/FrontMissionGunHazard'' (1996 -- along with Creator/MasashiHamauzu, Junya Nakano and Creator/NobuoUematsu)

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' (2012 -- along with Creator/MotoiSakuraba, Creator/YuzoKoshiro, Music/MasafumiTakada, Noriyuki Iwadare, and Takahiro Nishi)
* ''[[VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia Legaia II: Duel Saga]]'' (2001, along with Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Michiru Oshima)

* ''VideoGame/LuminousArc'' (2007, along with Creator/ShotaKageyama, Creator/AkariKaida and Kazumi Mitome)

* ''Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner'' (2006, along with Creator/ShinjiHosoe, Creator/KenjiIto, Creator/MasaharuIwata, Creator/TsukasaMasuko, Takahiro Ogata, Creator/HitoshiSakimoto, Creator/AyakoSaso, Creator/YokoShimomura and Creator/YasuyukiSuzuki)

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' (2003, along with Yoshitaka Hirota, Creator/KenjiIto and Tomoko Kobayashi)

* ''VideoGame/{{Tobal}} No. 1'' (1996 -- musical director, and composer along with Creator/MasashiHamauzu, Creator/KenjiIto, Creator/YasuhiroKawami, Creator/NorikoMatsueda, Creator/JunyaNakano, Creator/RyujiSasai and Creator/YokoShimomura)

* ''VideoGame/TsukiyoNiSaraba'' (2005, along with Creator/MikiHigashino)

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' (2010, along with [[Creator/{{Ace}} ACE+]], Creator/ManamiKiyota and Creator/YokoShimomura): The first time Mitsuda worked on an individual ''Xeno'' game where he did not compose the entire soundtrack. In fact, he only composed ''one'' song -- the ending, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPWseKK3XvI Beyond The Sky]]". The other five composers composed most of the soundtrack, but adopted heavy Mitsuda influences -- ''Xeno'' just isn't ''Xeno'' without it.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' (2017, along with [[Creator/{{Ace}} ACE+]] and Creator/ManamiKiyota): Unlike the first ''Xenoblade'', Mitsuda composed the main theme, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDukhKF36nw Where We Used To Be]]", and several event themes, and served as the overall soundtrack producer as well.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' (2022, along with [[Creator/{{Ace}} ACE+]], Creator/ManamiKiyota, and Mariam Abounassr)

** Samples: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoDzt5GlANg&fmt=18 Flight]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NON8oGbwInQ Bonds of Sea and Flame]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIF2crvBSDU June Mermaid]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEElC7aQAQ Omen]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GebRPCcwYPU One Who Is Torn Apart]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXmqo6XvRLE Remnants of the Dreams of the Strong]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=256pIFbJvhI Shattering Egg of Dreams]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZKYVlH8A3s The Soft Wind Sings]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRRvMPHQDl4 Stars of Tears]]" (vocals by Creator/JoanneHogg), "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0S-4pF54Y Steel Giants]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP62ooQPDYQ&fmt=18 Thames, Men of the Sea]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMzBEv12ExY The Treasure Which Cannot Be Stolen]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loh0SQ_SF2s Shevat of the Blue Skies, The Wind Is Calling]]".

Currently, Mitsuda has a music production company called [[http://www.procyon-studio.com/ Procyon Studio]] that works on various media, including his original medium, video games. Some of the non-game media he has composed for since founding this company includes ''Manga/BlackButler'' and ''LightNovel/IrinaTheVampireCosmonaut''.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' (1998): Also his least favorite work. In interview, Mitsuda said that developer Hudson Soft rejected more than half the compositions he submitted. Still, he did work for ''Mario Party 2'' as well.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2'' (1999, along with Syohei Bando, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi and Hironao Yamamoto): No ''Mario Party'' work after this.

Yasunori Mitsuda (born January 21, 1972) is a Japanese video game composer who got his start doing sound programming work on games developed by Square (now Creator/SquareEnix) such as VideoGame/SecretOfMana and VideoGame/FinalFantasyV, among others.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV : Episode Ignis'' (2017): This marks the first time he composed for a Creator/SquareEnix game after he left the company.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' (2022, along with [[Creator/{{Ace}} ACE+]] and Creator/ManamiKiyota)

Currently, Mitsuda has a music production company called [[http://www.procyon-studio.com/ Procyon Studio]] that works on various media, including his original medium, video games.

* ''Sea of Stars'' (2022)

** Samples: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NKJNo7nx8 Battle]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRZn29FuLU Green Sleeves]]" (arranged folk song), "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkPdDvhOEaE Kokoro]]" (vocals by JoanneHogg), "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5o19Vn6Cy4 Life or Death]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqjCT2yB3i8 Song of Nephilim]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPu66DUjWH8 U.M.N.MODE]]".

* ''KiRite'' is an album Yasunori Mitsuda made in cooperation with story writer MasatoKato (who had worked with Mitsuda on ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' and ''VideoGame/DeepLabyrinth''). Kato wrote a story, and Mitsuda composed 15 songs to give it feeling. An artist provided SceneryPorn with the album's printed material. All this made ''kiRite'' more like a concept game story, without ever being a game.