Fygee said:
The tean disbanded and went their seperate ways after 2000. Only one of the old guys remains, Tate_Norio, who's famous for composing Iori's various songs amonst others.
He is right. Also, if Sha-V still works for the company, he used to do a lot of the intros. However, I believe as a studio, Shinsekai works a lot better than the current cast. Tate (and his accomplice) is good at some tracks, and slightly weak on others. Deserted Town, for example, sounds like it'd come straight from the pages of an Ikari Theme, and is one of the better tracks from the KOF series. I wish I could say the same for other tracks, but I digress.
Most importantly, I think when the group disbanded, they must've took some sound program with them...Tate's Arashi 2 from 2k2 sounds inferior to both 96 and 98, but it's off the same composer for all three years. That doesn't make any sense to me...so I'm figuring that a new sound program was made to simulate and not replicate what Shinsekai was accustomed to. Akin to 2 people having the same computer, when Person "A" has Paintshop Pro installed on his PC while Person "B" has Protoshop 7: Provides the same purpose, but one functions better than the other.
Meanwhile, Dash No Chris, what are you charging for shipping? Because if it's less than CD Japan, we need to talk business.
I also noticed that you live in Vegas. I'll be there to visit in May in case you want to...how would Hanzo say it..."Chill"!