So it appears that Sotaro Tojima is returning to do music for Halo. This does make me wonder if Neil is returning to compose for Halo again. Now as many here agree, we hope the next game has a better soundtrack than Halo 4’s. It’s not that Halo 4’s music wasn’t bad, it just didn’t meet the level of Marty’s music. I hope they bring back old themes and monks from the original trilogy.
http://segmentnext.com/2014/03/05/sotaro-tojima-is-responsible-for-halo-5-music/
Tajeen was the audio director, not a composer. Kazuma Jinnouchi did music alongside Davidge.
I thought Tojima was the audio guy, in which case I am glad he’s coming back. He did a very nice job with the sounds.
Speak for yourself on that Halo 4 comment: the soundtrack is great. Sure, it’s a departure from traditional Halo, but listen closely next time you’re running through the Pillar of Autumn in Combat Evolved and tell me the background music doesn’t sound like the future’s interpretation of cheesy 1980s pop/elevator music. Which would be genius if it were.
My fiancee doesn’t play Halo (unless I force her to split screen with me) and she’ll turn on Halo 4’s title music while she reads when I’m not home. It’s good stuff.
> I thought Tojima was the audio guy, in which case I am glad he’s coming back. He did a very nice job with the sounds.
Is he also the guy responsible for implementing the soundtracks into the game? I thought that in Halo 4 the soundtracks were too low most of the time.
This isn’t very good news, for me at least.
Sotaro Kojima, despite being a good composer himself, is a terrible audio director and demonstrated this quite well with his unsatisfactory implementation of Davidge and Jinnouchi’s scores into the game.
Rarely did Halo 4’s well-crafted soundtrack have much of a presence in the game, and the sad part is that Kojima’s role as audio director turned a large portion of the community against Neil and Kazuma.