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Is there something in the water, or have all the game developers unanimously agreed to let their egos inflate to crazy new heights? PaRappa the Rapper designer Masaya Matsuura says that (according to Next Gen), "games and music have failed to conjoin in imaginative ways in the years since his seminal hit." This after Shane Kim from Microsoft Game Studios' was duly unconvinced by PS3's Home 3D environment.
Matsuura believes that:
Examples of the relationship between music and games are rather shallow. There has been a lot of neglect and apathy. There are many incompetent music directors who cannot truly be described as musicians, since they do not have their own style, they are merely involved in production.
Which is true for most music directors who are not involved in a music-themed game. Nothing quite cheers me up like the soundtrack from Katamari Damacy, and some songs are so popular, they get covered by mindboggling talented people. Never let the music die or it will be like Footloose all over again (except without the dancing).
PaRappa Creator: Game Music "Incompetent" [Next Gen]
