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25 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Did you know the popular safe room theme of Resident Evil 4 was used several times across Capcom & Konami games?

This great piece of ambient music called "To Burble & Pine", composed by @torndavid, has been sampled in RE4, Devil May Cry, Silent Hill Origins, and Monster Hunter!
The number of composers that ended up using this sample involve Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill composer) and Masami Ueda (Resident Evil composer) among the most popular.

There always was a lot of popular ambient albums to sample among JP composers, but this one is the most popular.
Akira Yamaoka in particular used a heavy amount of samples from different albums to craft the sound of the Silent Hill series.

This great video is showcasing some of the original samples that have been found and used through Silent Hill 1 to 4
Just in case it might be confusing: David Torn made the original piece of music called "To Burble & Pine" from the "Pandora's Toolbox" album and it was used in various video games afterwards. Resident Evil 4 and other games only sampled from there.

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Screenshots of Final Fantasy XII during its prototype phase.

Critics have theorized the combat was changed midway through development to be more "MMO", but it wasn't true.

Katano had said "[...] I was shown the dev docs. It had the Gambit battles and the seamless open world."
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Katano had also worked on FF10, and he recalls FF12 being so much more complicated, due to its open world nature and its novel Gambit system.
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when people says "this looks like a PS2 game" they forget that PS2 games looked like this
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The same team worked on both games. Sakaguchi was so moved with Vagrant Story that he decided to entrust them with Final Fantasy.
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He notably worked on FFXII, Dragon Quest XI and NieR Automata as Sound Director and Supervisor.
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