VGAce wrote:Koshiro is often erroneously credited with being the main composer for the Shenmue series (in fact a good handful of composers were responsible; it was largely an ensemble cast of musical geniuses IMO), so his name is often attributed to a lot of Shenmue music. Your assumption that his accreditation here is just a guess is likely correct, though I don't know for certain. As no official soundtrack for Shenmue II was ever released, there's no solid documentation for the composition of the music and especially for individual tracks. At least none that I've ever seen. Which is a shame since there are some real gems in the Shenmue II soundtrack and I always believe in people getting credit for their work.
Holy...where'd you pop up from man? How's it going?
Anyways, to the OP, I was talking to Takenobu Mitsuyoshi recently and it'd take most of the composers sitting down at a round table meeting to tell who exactly wrote what. There are so many different songs in both games, and so many composers were working with the project. The soundtracks are about the only things that credited songs to specific composers.