{"id":1173845,"date":"2026-02-13T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mMzkLGfsv6bgksr3pcLbN3"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:08:09","slug":"ff14s-composer-soken-says-doing-double-time-on-an-mmo-and-final-fantasy-16-was-something-beyond-your-imagination-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ff14s-composer-soken-says-doing-double-time-on-an-mmo-and-final-fantasy-16-was-something-beyond-your-imagination-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"FF14&#8217;s composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was &#8216;something beyond your imagination of hell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Final Fantasy 14 is famous for, as much as anything, its music\u2014and its lead composer, Masayoshi Soken, is very much part of that equation. As someone with one too many hours in the MMO myself, I can testify that this man&#8217;s orchestration skills have moved me to tears more than once.<\/p>\n<p>He may, however, have been burning the candle at both ends. In a recent interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/final-fantasy-14\/ff14-masayoshi-soken-interview-ff16\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamesN<\/a>, Soken confesses that working on both Final Fantasy 14 <em>and <\/em>16 at the same time was hellish\u2014in the literal sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be very honest in saying that I never want to do anything like that again,&#8221; Soken explains. &#8220;Every day was a really horrible hell\u2014really something beyond your imagination of hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soken explains that he believed he could take on both games because, well, he did it back in the day. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/how-final-fantasy-14-clawed-its-way-back-from-disaster-to-become-2020s-best-mmo\/\">When FF14&#8217;s disastrous 1.0 launched<\/a>, Soken worked both on additional music for 1.0 <em>and <\/em>the tracks for A Realm Reborn, the reboot that saved the world of Eorzea from the brink. &#8220;I had the experience of working on two massive games \u2026 I just didn\u2019t give up this time either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for FF16, the composer obviously pulled it off, but he notes that the experience was &#8220;completely different .. all the things I had to make were just completely different in size&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Soken&#8217;s determination in the face of a challenge isn&#8217;t anything new, mind. Back in 2021, he revealed that he&#8217;d <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/these-final-fantasy-14-moments-are-forever-burned-into-my-memory\/\">been battling cancer<\/a> through the majority of Shadowbringer&#8217;s patch quests, keeping his condition a secret from most of his colleagues while he worked from the hospital and underwent chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Which is both admirable and sort of concerning\u2014work is important, but not at the expense of your own health. Still, Soken at least seems to&#8217;ve realised that he shouldn&#8217;t work on two major Final Fantasy titles at the same time, ever again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they said, &#8216;Would you do it simultaneously?&#8217; I would just say no \u2026 If they asked me, &#8216;Is it that you don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to do it?&#8217; I would say no. It\u2019s a difficult, difficult question. If I had two bodies, I would do both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as is often said, no-one can be in two places at once\u2014and I&#8217;d rather Soken be in one place, maybe with a decent amount of sleep, continuing to make bangers for a game that is full of them. He and his colleagues have done a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/final-fantasy-14s-latest-raids-have-me-fully-convinced-that-square-enix-can-still-cook-even-as-job-design-lags-behind\/\">damn fine job<\/a> with the new Arcadion raids, after all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"a128a008-a1ec-45b4-aad5-f97af9edf4e0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension48=\"Best MMOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:316px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"UjCJY9gjRfatHZjCuGMrhR\" name=\"elden ring square cheer.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ff14s-composer-soken-says-doing-double-time-on-an-mmo-and-final-fantasy-16-was-something-beyond-your-imagination-of-hell.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-mmos\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"a128a008-a1ec-45b4-aad5-f97af9edf4e0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension48=\"Best MMOs\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best MMOs<\/strong><\/a>: Most massive<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-strategy-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best strategy games<\/strong><\/a>: Number crunching<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-open-world-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best open world games<\/strong><\/a>: Unlimited exploration<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-survival-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best survival games<\/strong><\/a>: Live craft love<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-horror-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best horror games<\/strong><\/a>: Fight or flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/final-fantasy\/ff14s-composer-soken-says-doing-double-time-on-an-mmo-and-final-fantasy-16-was-something-beyond-your-imagination-of-hell\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy 14 is famous for, as much as anything, its music\u2014and its lead composer, Masayoshi Soken, is very much part of that equation. As someone with one too many hours in the MMO myself, I can testify that this man&#8217;s orchestration skills have moved me to tears more than once. He may, however, have been burning the candle at both ends. In a recent interview with PCGamesN, Soken confesses that working on both Final Fantasy 14 and 16 at the same time was hellish\u2014in the literal sense of the word. &#8220;I would be very honest in saying that I never want to do anything like that again,&#8221; Soken explains. &#8220;Every day was a really horrible hell\u2014really something beyond your imagination of hell.&#8221; Soken explains&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ff14s-composer-soken-says-doing-double-time-on-an-mmo-and-final-fantasy-16-was-something-beyond-your-imagination-of-hell\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1333,748,34],"class_list":["post-1173845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-final-fantasy","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FF14&#039;s composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was &#039;something beyond your imagination of hell&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Final Fantasy 14 is famous for, as much as anything, its music\u2014and its lead composer, Masayoshi Soken, is very much part of that equation. 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