Kikuta says that he was given complete freedom to compose the soundtracks, in that he was given no direction at all as to how to compose the music ; he began working on the music before the design of the game was finalized.

Sacnoth was created in 1997 by Hiroki Kikuta, best known for composing the music to Secret of Mana series while working at Square and was set up with funding from the video game company SNK.

Kikuta went on to earn an interdisciplinary degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University, which he attended from 1981 to 1984.

The move to the PlayStation for Soukaigi allowed Kikuta to focus on creating live music for the soundtrack, rather than tweaking the synthesizer instruments to make the music files fit in the game cartridge as he had to for the Super Nintendo.

The game itself, however, was not a success, and Kikuta decided that he wanted more direct control over the next project he worked on.

Kikuta left Sacnoth soon after ; the company changed its name to Nautilus and went on to produce four more games including the Shadow Hearts series before folding in 2007.

None of these games have been released outside of Japan ; to date the only video games that Kikuta has worked on to appear in North America or Europe are Secret of Mana and Koudelka.

Ito was originally scheduled to continue on with the Mana series and compose the soundtrack to Seiken Densetsu 2 ( Secret of Mana ), but was forced to hand the project off to Hiroki Kikuta as his first score due to the demand on his time for scoring Romancing SaGa.

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The game received considerable acclaim for its brightly colored graphics, expansive plot, " Ring Command " menu system, innovative real-time battle system, modified Active Time Battle meter adapted for real-time action, its innovative cooperative multiplayer gameplay, where the second or third players could drop in and out of the game at any time rather than players having to join the game at the same time, the customizable AI settings for computer-controlled allies, and the acclaimed soundtrack by Hiroki Kikuta.

The game's soundtrack was composed by Hiroki Kikuta.

Kikuta was originally chosen for Secret of Mana after Kenji Ito, who had composed the first game in the Mana series, Final Fantasy Adventure, was forced to drop the project due to other demands, such as the soundtrack to Romancing SaGa.

Kikuta states that he had a particularly difficult time composing the score, which required him to combine his own style of popular music with the " game music " that is accompanied by the hardware and software limitation of the Super Famicom.

Kikuta finds composing music to be natural, " like breathing ".

Rather than trying to be a " pure artist " that creates art for art's sake, Kikuta says that his primary goal in composing is to entertain the listeners.

Kikuta completed it with little assistance, having performed the sound selection, editing, effect design, and data encoding himself.

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Kikuta moved to Mutsu at that time.

Kikuta was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

After graduating from Kansai, Kikuta worked first as a manga illustrator and later as an anime composer.

In 1991, Kikuta was hired by Square ( now Square Enix ), as a composer.

He started off debugging Final Fantasy IV and creating sound effects for Romancing SaGa, as there were not enough game projects in development to open up new jobs for Square's new hires, but Kikuta was soon given game soundtracks to compose.

During his seven years at Square, Kikuta composed the soundtracks to only three games: Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Soukaigi for the PlayStation.

Rather than use pre-made MIDI samples of instruments like most game composers of that time, Kikuta made his own MIDI samples that matched the hardware capabilities of the Super Nintendo.

For Seiken Densetsu 3, Kikuta was assisted by a sound programmer, Hidenori Suzuki, which allowed him to compose over three times the amount of music he had created for Secret of Mana.

After Kikuta finished Soukaigi, he left Square and founded the video game development company Sacnoth, assuming the position of the president and CEO from 1998 to 1999.

During this time, the company created Koudelka for the PlayStation ; Kikuta was credited as the concept designer, game planner, scenario writer, producer and composer.

In March 2001, Kikuta founded Norstrilia, named after the novel of the same name.

Kikuta released Lost Files, his first album of original music, in 2006.

The album includes the demo tapes Kikuta submitted when first applying for the job of game composer at Square, using the sound source of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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