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Video Game Music isn't a musical genre, just like Film Music isn't one.

If anything among the wide array of music used for video games is kinda specific to them, it's indeed chiptune music. This is the one and only truly innovating form of VGM.

As such, I'd say there was indeed some kind of golden age, and it's long gone. With technology improving, music used in video games has lost it's particularity and now sounds like any film soundtrack could sound. Wether it's a good thing or not is up to everyone's judgment.

Personally, I strongly believe in the fact that the more you limit an artist's possibilities, the more he'll have to push his creativity. This is how I explain the huge amount of awesomely catchy melodies the chiptune era produced. This is why 80% of my preferred stuff is from that era, but I can also enjoy some of the recent stuff as well, just not in the same spirit.

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While to me Mitsuda's only true moment of brilliance ultimately is Chrono Trigger, I'd say Uematsu actually is an exception. His recent stuff is pretty cool, and some of it even is pretty awesome. Sure, he doesn't deliver as much memorable themes as he used to, but there is something in the development of his powerful choir powered rock tunes that just seems "in the line" of all he ever did. I mean, I don't think I can find a similar example of someone who enhanced his sound quality so much and could keep such a recognizable style.

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