Have We Already Witnessed the Best?

Originally Posted by Goldfish from Hell

I also look at this way: The current gen is full of composers that I either used to really to enjoy and I feel have either burned out or just stopped trying or...well, when a company like Square -long known for its' guild of quality composers- has a talentless hack like Takeharu Ishimoto among the ranks as one of its' primary composers working on one of its' most renowned franchises (seriously...this dude couldn't even get Dissidia right, which should have been a dream soundtrack for everyone involved), it does make a bit of a statement about the current composer scene.

Ishimoto = a hack > Uematsu, Mitsuda (=burned out geniuses) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sugiyama, Shimomura, Hamauzu, Kikuta (=overrated and burned out hacks).

Jam it back in, in the dark.