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, known professionally as Go Shiina, is a Japanese video game composer employed at Bandai Namco Games. He is best known for creating the scores to ''Tales of Legendia'', the ''Mr. Driller'' series, and the ''God Eater'' series. ==Biography== Born in Yokohama, Japan, Shiina was taught how to play the electronic organ from his parents when he was growing up. Although he was not a dedicated musician before becoming a composer, he was at one time a member of a Megadeth cover band who also played J-pop music. Shiina enrolled at Dokkyo Junior High School. After being rejected by 46 companies, including a jewelry company, a finance company, and a fast food company, he was hired by Namco (now Bandai Namco Games); he had little prior experience with video games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Interview with Mr. Go Shiina (NBGI) Part 1 )〕 Creating music for old arcade releases using Namco's sound trackers felt more like computer programming than composing for Shiina, but he has said that the experience helped him out when he would have to use MIDI sounds in future games. The songs he composed for the first ''Mr. Driller'' were deemed unfitting for a puzzle game by some of the staff and they almost didn't make it into the final product.〔 Shiina's first solo project was ''Mr. Driller G''. He was given extensive access to live instruments and an incredible amount of creative freedom, setting the stage for his later work. The scores for future games in the ''Mr. Driller'' series would also be composed exclusively by Shiina. The critically acclaimed soundtrack of Tales of Legendia is perhaps his most well-known work. When he began writing songs for the game he tried to follow in the footsteps of the usual Tales series composer, Motoi Sakuraba, but after realizing that Legendia's imagery and story were different from the rest of the series he was inspired to develop his own style for the music.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Go Shiina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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