Hiroki Kikuta
aka:
菊田 裕樹,
Yuki Nijūroku,
結城 二十六
Moby ID: 61509
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Hiroki Kikuta (菊田 裕樹) was born in 1962 in Aichi prefecture, Japan. He began his career at Square in 1991 as a manager. He designed the sound effects for the game Romancing SaGa, and after that was asked to compose the music for Secret of Mana. The soundtrack took off, and then he composed the sequel Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995) and Sōkaigi (1998).
Kikuta wanted a bigger challenge than composing music, and he felt he could not do it with Square. When he realized this, he set up Sacnoth, with financial backing of SNK, and took the position of CEO. He was the designer, scenario writer, and producer of Koudelka (1999), for which he also directed the CG movies and composed the music. Koudelka was a failure on the market, and after this, he resigned his position as CEO.
In March 2001 Kikuta founded Norstrilia, a private record label that publishes his albums. During the next three years he was working as a concept designer and game planner for a Chinese online role-playing game that was eventually canceled. His work in the video game industry became once again confined to music, as he went on to compose soundtracks for the eroge visual novel Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro (2004) and a few other games afterwards.
Credited on 25 games
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| Pixel Noir (2024, Windows) | Co-Music Composer |
| Mineko's Night Market (2023, Windows Apps) | Composer, Credits |
| Dungeon Drafters (2023, Windows) | Guest Composer |
| YIIK: A Postmodern RPG (2021, Windows Apps) | Additional Composition |
| Trials of Mana (2020, PlayStation 4) | Composer |
| Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX (2019, Nintendo Switch) | "Ametsuchi no Kotowari" |
| Last Labyrinth (2019, PlayStation 4) | Main Theme Composition |
| Indivisible (2019, PlayStation 4) | Music Composer |
| Million Arthur: Arcana Blood (2019, Windows) | Original BGM |
| Secret of Mana (2018, PlayStation 4) | Music Composer |
| Tangledeep (2017, Windows) | Additional Music |
| Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (2017, Windows) | 'Promised Hearts ~Summer~ (Reize Theme)' |
| Pankapu (2016, Windows) | "Eternal Orbis Chronicles" Theme |
| Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena (2016, Windows) | BGM |
| Atelier Escha & Logy Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky (2016, PS Vita) | Music Composers |
| El of Genesis: -At the end of the hero's dream- (2015, iPhone) | Main Theme (メインテーム) |
| Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky (2014, PlayStation 3) | Music Composers |
| Demons' Score (2012, iPhone) | Belial Composer |
| SoulCalibur V (2012, PlayStation 3) | Composers |
| After...: Wasureenu Kizuna (2004, PlayStation 2) | Movie (ムービー) |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Masaru Oyamada
- 5 games with Reiko Kondo
- 4 games with Tetsuo Mizuno
- 4 games with Hiroo Isono
- 4 games with Yasunori Masutani
- 4 games with Ryuji Kudō
- 4 games with Asami Seto
- 4 games with Haruka Shimotsuki
- 4 games with Koichi Ishii
- 4 games with Noriko Watanabe
Companies
- 8 games with Valve Corporation
- 6 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 5 games with Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Square Co., Ltd.
- 3 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Digital Media Lab, Inc.
- 2 games with Square Enix Limited
- 2 games with Kakehashi Games
- 2 games with Koei Tecmo America Corp.
- 2 games with Gust
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