tri-Crescendo

tri-Crescendo

Type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Computer and video game industry
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Hiroya Hatsushiba
Products	Eternal Sonata, Baten Kaitos series, sound for tri-Ace games (Valkyrie Profile - present)
Number of employees	27
Website	http://www.tri-crescendo.co.jp/ (Japanese)

tri-Crescendo is a video game developer from Japan. It was founded in February 1999 by Hiroya Hatsushiba, who still runs the company. Hatsushiba, originally being a sound programmer, carried his experience into tri-Crescendo; the company was initially responsible for the sound in all games by tri-Ace starting with Valkyrie Profile until 2001 when the company co-created Baten Kaitos with Monolith Soft. tri-Crescendo then went on to make Eternal Sonata for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon^[1] for the Wii.

tri-Crescendo was responsible for the programming and sound design in both the first Baten Kaitos and the prequel, Baten Kaitos Origins. In the first game battle planning was handled by Hiroya Hatsushiba, from tri-Crescendo and Yoshiharu Kuwabara from Monolith Soft,^[2] however in the second game it was handled by tri-Crescendo themselves led by Shuhei Rokumoto.^[3]

Developed titles

Nintendo GameCube

• Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (co-developed with Monolith Soft)
• Baten Kaitos Origins (co-developed with Monolith Soft)

Nintendo DS

• Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow

Nintendo 3DS

• Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (co-developed with Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games)

PlayStation 3

• Eternal Sonata
• Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (HD remaster of Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World^[4])
• Tales of Zestiria (co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios)
• Tales of Berseria (co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios)

PlayStation 4

• The Idolmaster Platinum Stars (co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios)
• Tales of Berseria (co-developed with Bandai Namco Studios)

PlayStation Portable

• Danball Senki (co-developed with Level-5)
• Danball Senki Boost (co-developed with Level-5)
• Digimon World Re:Digitize

Wii

• Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon (co-developed with Namco, Aksent, Rideout, and other third parties)^[5]

Wii U

• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (co-developed with Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games)

Xbox 360

• Eternal Sonata

Titles involved in with sound work

PlayStation

• Valkyrie Profile

Game Boy Color

• Star Ocean: Blue Sphere

PlayStation 2

• The Fear
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Director's Cut
• Radiata Stories
• Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria

Nintendo Wii

• Calling

References

1. ↑ IGN: Fragile Detailed
2. ↑ Game Credits for Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
3. ↑ Game Credits for Baten Kaitos Origins
4. ↑ "Fragile Dreams Developer Helped Make Tales Of Symphonia Chronicles". Siliconera. March 18, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014. 
5. ↑ Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon - Credits - allgame

External links

• tri-Crescendo Japanese website