Nobuo Uematsu, a longtime composer of the Final Fantasy series as well as Fantasian Neo Dimension has announced he is scaling back his work on videogame music.

This news was announced on his social media in an initial video message where he said that Fantasian Neo Dimension would be his “final” project as a videogame composer. After an initial wave of panic from his fans, Uematsu clarified that he was only scaling back his work on videogames slightly to make time for other projects, and his initial video was more about stepping away from composing entire soundtracks for games.

You can read his messages below:

Watch this special message from #FantasianNeoDimension composer Nobuo Uematsu. pic.twitter.com/2Tk0wawBGF

— FANTASIAN Neo Dimension (@Fantasian_EN) October 15, 2024

Wait, wait, wait!
Everybody calm down!
There seems to be some misunderstanding, but I'm not retiring from video game music work!

I'm going to cut back a bit on my video game music work because I want to have more time to make the music I want to make. It would be difficult for… pic.twitter.com/8asDX9UF90

— 植松伸夫 (Nobuo Uematsu) -con TIKI- (@UematsuNobuo) October 16, 2024

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