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Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌 Yamamoto Kenji) is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo. He has composed the soundtrack for various games in the Metroid series as well as other games. He also voiced the Spore Spawn in Super Metroid.[1]
He did not compose music for Metroid: Other M, as he was working on Donkey Kong Country Returns. He was replaced by Ninja Gaiden composer Kuniaki Haishima. While it was reported that Yamamoto was composing the music for Metroid Prime: Federation Force alongside Next Level Games' internal music team, he is not credited in the final game.[1] He did return as the music director of the newest Metroid title, Metroid: Samus Returns, with the new composer Daisuke Matsuoka re-arranging some of Yamamoto's classic Metroid tracks.
Work
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Kenji Yamamoto, circa 1994.
Listed below are soundtracks he has created for various games:
Metroid
- Super Metroid (with Minako Hamano)
- Metroid Fusion (as sound designer)
- Metroid Prime
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (with Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima)
- Metroid: Zero Mission (with Minako Hamano)
- Metroid Prime Hunters (as Sound Supervisor)
- Metroid Prime Pinball (with Masaru Tajima)
- Metroid: Samus Returns (music director, original Metroid music)
Other games
- Advance Wars: Dual Strike (with Yoshito Hirano)
- Famicom Tantei Club
- Famicom Tantei Club II
- Galactic Pinball
- Hajimari no Mori
- Mario Kart Advance (sound support)
- Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
- Sakuchi Momoko no Ukiuki Cannibal (sound support)
- Excite Truck (with Masaru Tajima)
- Donkey Kong Country Returns (with Minako Hamano, Masaru Tajima, Shinji Ushiroda and Daisuke Matsuoka)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Kenji Yamamoto was one of the various composers contributing to Super Smash Bros. Brawl's soundtrack.[2]
References
- ^ Next Level handling Metroid Prime: FF’s music along with Nintendo’s Kenji Yamamoto. Nintendo Everything (2015-06-17). Retrieved on 2018-03-20.
- ^ The Musicians. Smash Bros. DOJO!! (2007-05-22). Retrieved on 2007-09-10.