The legendary composer of Kingdom Hearts was as shocked as everyone by the direction he was going: “Wait, it’s a Disney game, but you want this kind of song there?”

Composer Yoko Shimomura has created some of the most memorable songs in the history of the game, from Street Fighter 2 to large expanses of the Square Enix catalog. We can say that his most loved work comes from the Kingdom Hearts series, mixing classic Disney pieces with the Tone Epic, almost Operatic Square, is known. It turns out that she was as shocked as anyone was going to be the tone of the series.

“I was a little surprised when they explained to me what songs they wanted me to write – there was a whole gap there,” said Shimomura in an official Square Enix interview. “I thought:” Wait, it’s a Disney game, but you want this kind of song there? This kind of track there? “So, I was quite surprised by the difference.”