Noriyuki Iwadare
Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂 徳行, Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game composer.
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 28, 1964 Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Instruments | Piano, guitar |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Biography
Iwadare was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. The first award he won the Best Game Music award, the Mega Drive/Genesis category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, while he himself has done several times, as with the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the Ace Attorney series music).
He was a special guest at the 11th French Japan Expo that was held on July 2010 in Paris, France.[1]
Works
Composition
- Space Invaders: Fukkatsu no Hi (1990)
- Space Invaders '90 (1990)
- Wings of Wor (1991)
- Langrisser (1991) - with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
- Blue Almanac (1991) - with Masaru Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kubotera, Hiroshi Fujioka, and Isao Mizoguchi
- Head Buster (1991) - with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
- Steel Empire (1992) - with Isao Mizoguchi and Yoshiaki Kubotera
- Sotsugyou: Graduation (1992)
- Gley Lancer (1992) - with Masanori Hikichi, Yoshiaki Kubotera, and Isao Mizoguchi
- Lunar: The Silver Star (1992) - with Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kubotera
- Kishi Densetsu (1993) - with Isao Mizoguchi
- Maten no Soumetsu (1993) - with Isao Mizoguchi
- SimEarth (Sega CD) (1993)
- Tanjou: Debut (1993)
- Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei (1993) - with Masanori Hikichi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, Miyoko Takaoka, Naoyuki Ito
- Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan (1993)
- Langrisser II (1994) - with Isao Mizoguchi
- Wing Commander (Sega CD) (1994) - with Isao Mizoguchi, Kenichi Okuma, Maki Tanimoto
- Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994)
- Sotsugyou II: Neo Generation (1994) - with Maki Tanimoto, Kenichi Okuma, Isao Mizoguchi
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Game Boy) (1994) - with Kenichi Okuma
- Mercurius Pretty (1994)
- Der Langrisser (1995)
- Dōkyūsei (TG-CD) (1995) - "Opening Theme" - with Go Oami, Hiroyuki Hamada, Kenichi Okuma, Masaki Sugo, Tatsuro Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Kadooka
- Lunar: Walking School (1996)
- Monstania (1996)
- Tanjou S (1996)
- Lunar: Silver Star Story (1996)
- Doukyuusei if (1996) - "Opening Theme"
- True Love Story (1996) - with Kenichi Okuma, Maki Tanimoto, Ataru Sumiyoshi
- Doukyuusei 2 (Sega Saturn) (1997) - "Opening Theme" - with Go Oami, Isao Mizoguchi, Taro Hara
- Langrisser IV (1997) - with Makoto Asai, Yuichiro Honda
- Magic School Lunar! (1997)
- Grandia (1997)
- Langrisser V: The End of Legend (1998)
- Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (1998)
- True Love Story 2 (1999)
- Yuukyuu no Eden (1999)
- Growlanser (1999)
- Grandia II (2000)
- Mercurius Pretty: End of the Century (2000)
- True Love Story 3 (2001)
- Grandia Xtreme (2002)
- Wind: A Breath of Heart (2002) - with Maki Tanimoto
- True Love Story: Summer Days, and Yet… (2003)
- Mega Man X7 (2003) ("Higher The Air ~ Air Force Stage")
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations (2004)
- Radiata Stories (2005)
- Grandia III (2006)
- KimiKiss (2006)
- Project Wiki (2006)
- Kanji no Wataridori (2006)
- Elvandia Story (2007) - with Norihiko Hibino
- KimiKiss: Pure Rouge (2007) - with Hikaru Nanase and Masaru Yokoyama
- True Fortune (2008)
- Amagami (2009)
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009) - with Yasuko Yamada
- Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (2009)
- Grandia Online (2010)
- Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (2011)
- Otomedius Excellent (2011) - with various others
- Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012) - with Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Takahiro Nishi, and Yasunori Mitsuda
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (2013)
- Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei (2015)
- Zombie Tokyo (2015) - composition with Michiko Naruke
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice (2016) - with Toshihiko Horiyama and Masami Onodera
- Reco Love: Blue Ocean and Gold Beach (2016)[2]
- Langrisser (Android) (2019)
- Rakugaki Kingdom (2019) - with various others[3]
- Langrisser Schwarz (Cancelled)
Arrangement
- After Burner II (Mega Drive) (1990)
- Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Mega Drive) (1991) - with Yoshiaki Kubodera
- Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (Mega-CD) (1994)
- Crusader of Centy (1994)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - with various others ("Yoshi's Island" from Yoshi's Island, "Meta Knight's Revenge" from Kirby Super Star, "With Mila's Divine Protection" from Fire Emblem Gaiden)
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014) - with various others ("Gear Getaway" from Donkey Kong Country Returns, "In the Space-Pirate Ship" from Kid Icarus: Uprising, "Air Man Stage" from Mega Man 2)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - with various others ("City Trial" from Kirby Air Ride, "Delfino Plaza" from Super Mario Sunshine, "Top Man Stage" from Mega Man 3, "Light Plane" from Pilotwings, "Electroplankton" from Electroplankton, "Kurikinton" from Fatal Fury 2, "Stormy Saxophone 2" from The King of Fighters '96)
References
- "Japan Expo - Noriyuki IWADARE" (in French). Japan Expo. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on May 16, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- Greening, Chris. "Noriyuki Iwadare's latest dating sim soundtrack revealed". Video Game Music Online. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ""ラクガキ"がコンセプトのRPG『ラクガキ キングダム』正式発表。自分の描いた絵が立体化して動き出す『ラクガキ王国』を進化させた新機軸【先出し週刊ファミ通】". Famitsu (in Japanese). July 11, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
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