FromSoftware video games are principally recognized for just a few issues—excessive issue, stellar fight programs, huge boss encounters, and never least of all, epic soundtracks. One individual has been ever current in From’s soundtracks since 2013, however now they’re leaving.
Yuka Kitamura introduced on Twitter that she is departing FromSoftware after greater than a decade on the firm, throughout which she composed half a dozen online game soundtracks. The composer plans to maintain working within the business as a freelancer.
Kitamura joined FromSoftware in 2012 and has labored as a composer for each main launch by the corporate since then. She made her debut in Armored Core: Verdict Day, which got here out in 2013, and first composed for the Souls style FromSoftware is widely known for in Darkish Souls 2.
Since then, Kitamura has been a composer for all FromSoftware video games, together with Bloodborne, Darkish Souls 3, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring. All 4 video games grew to become a essential and industrial hit. Elden Ring specifically shattered all gross sales information for a FromSoftware launch and gained numerous year-end awards in 2022.
Given the corporate’s rising success and status, Kitamura’s departure comes utterly out of the blue, particularly with what we all know is coming from the Japanese developer. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is scheduled to launch on Aug. 25. We’re additionally ready for the primary official Elden Ring DLC, which FromSoftware revealed is already in improvement.
Regardless of Armored Core 6 launching just some weeks from now, it doesn’t appear like Kitamura has something to do with its soundtrack. Alongside her announcement of changing into a freelancer starting Aug. 1, she additionally shared a hyperlink to her new personal website. There’s a “Works” tab there that features all of Kitamura’s soundtrack involvements and there’s no point out of Fires of Rubicon or every other work the composer has completed in 2023.
Kitamura’s first ever contribution to a FromSoftware soundtrack was for an Armored Core title, so it could have been becoming for her to compose for the rather more hyped Fires of Rubicon. For no matter purpose, that’s apparently not going to be the case, and it doesn’t appear like her music might be included in any Elden Ring DLC both. Nonetheless, we want Yuka Kitamura nothing however success as a contract composer and hope we’ll see her majestic tunes in one other recreation sooner quite than later.
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