Tsuyoshi Sekito (関戸 剛,Sekito Tsuyoshi; born April 3, 1963) is a Japanesevideo game composer,arranger, and musician who has been employed atSquare Enix since 1995. As a composer, he is best known for scoringBrave Fencer Musashi (1998),Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) andThe Last Remnant (2008). He also plays the guitar in the rock bandsThe Black Mages and The Star Onions; both groups arrange and perform compositions from theFinal Fantasy series.

Tsuyoshi Sekito was born inOsaka, Japan. His career as a video game composer began at the end of the 1980s when he joinedKonami's sound team. The first game he scored wasSpace Manbow in 1989. The following year, he created the music forSD Snatcher andMetal Gear 2: Solid Snake along with several other composers. He was subsequently assigned to score the sports titlesDouble Dribble: 5-on-5 (1991) andSoccer Superstars (1995) and the cartoon adaptationsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers (1991) andTiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (1993), often as the leading composer. In 1994, he created the soundtrack to thearcade gameLethal Enforcers II: Gunfighters with Yuichi Sakakura. He left Konami in 1995 to join the Osaka branch ofSquare.^[1]

After joining Square, Sekito did not compose any games until 1998; his first assignment for the company was to create the music forBrave Fencer Musashi. In 1999, he assisted in scoring the soundtrack toChocobo's Dungeon 2 by creating 12 pieces. His fellow composers wereKumi Tanioka andKenji Ito. The following year, he composed music for the Japan-onlyAll Star Pro-Wrestling along withKenichiro Fukui and Tanioka. Sekito went solo for the game's sequel,All Star Pro-Wrestling II (2001), and was joined by Fukui again for the third and final installment,All Star Pro-Wrestling III (2003).^[1]

In 2002, after Sekito and Fukui's collaboration onAll Star Pro-Wrestling, they decided toarrange some of the pieces in theFinal Fantasy series, composed byNobuo Uematsu. The two presented their arrangements to Uematsu who enjoyed their work. Although hesitant at first, Uematsu agreed to join Sekito and Fukui in forming the rock bandThe Black Mages; Sekito served as the group's guitarist. In 2003,Keiji Kawamori, Arata Hanyuda, and Michio Okamiya also joined the band.^[1] The Black Mages have released three studio albums, and have appeared at several concerts to promote their albums.

To create the music forThe Last Remnant, Sekito utilized his guitar collection for different tracks and used different guitar sounds and techniques including detuning and delay effects on the album.^[2] Sekito did not use an orchestra for the game's music, but chose particular instruments and players to make the music an assortment of the best for each part.^[3]

InKingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Sekito felt unrestricted while composing music for theNintendo 3DS, saying that he was able to create songs that would make a game player feel that were in a large world even on a small device due to the game console's 3D graphics.^[4]

For the gameFinal Fantasy Explorers, Sekito had to begin composing music with very few visual effects finished, and thus composed a wide variety of music to fit however it turned out.^[5]

Sekito citesheavy metal bandsVan Halen andDream Theater and film score composerJerry Goldsmith as musical influences.^[1]

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