uh... so the game was just announced for us English speaking folk literally today and the title of the game is officially called "Trails through Daybreak"
and it's getting a Summer 2024 release date which is way earlier than I thought. Just wanted to share this because I'm on a hype high lmao xD
Hope you had a good day today Jesse :)
Cyrus Bright
2023-09-22 01:37:56 +0000 UTC
Shuntaro Koguchi is a composer and arranger currently employed at Falcom.
He graduated from Chuo university's department of humanities and social sciences and joined the company in 2019, as part of a graduate recruitment program. He decided to pursue a career in video game music composition after hearing "Overdosing Heavenly Bliss" from Trails in the Sky the 3rd, a track that left a strong impression on him back when he was still attending high school. (Can you blame him? It left a strong impression on me and it's been almost 3 years since I first heard it lmao)
In his first six months within the company he worked primarily as a debugger/game tester and got to name a few songs from Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, later, he had the opportunity to compose and arrange music for Trails Into Reverie, Kuro No Kiseki, Kuro No Kiseki II: Crimson Sin and Ys X: Nordics.
Koguchi has composed a fair share of noteworthy and fan favorite tracks during his short time at Falcom, such as Trails Into Reverie's "Wind-Up Yesterday!", Kuro No Kiseki's "In The Dawn", "Open The Shard", "Hazard Coming", "Kuro -Beyond the Dawn-", Kuro No Kiseki II's "Hard-Boiled Short Cake", "News of Thaw" and many others.
With a solid musical background and a deep understanding of Falcom's musical legacy, he was able to breathe new life into the sound team, something that hasn't been done in many years.