Tunage – Ryu Umemoto

Ryu Umemoto

Ryu Umemoto began his musical career in 1992, working on Japanese PC titles as a freelancer. Most of his early work was tied to anime licenses or eroge titles, but these early soundtracks allowed him to grow and become more mature as a composer. He composed several graphic adventure titles for C’s Ware and ELF in the mid 1990′s, hailed highly for their emotional depth. His melodic talents eventually landed him several contracts with Cave in the mid 2000′s, granting their spastic shooters with his musical touch. Unfortunately, in 2011 Umemoto contracted a strange disease that robbed him of his strength and, after several months, his life as well.

LVLs. is honored to give tribute to a man most games outside of Japan have likely never heard of. The majority of his work has not been localized for the West. On top of that, America and Europe tend to shy away from the genres he generally worked on, graphic adventures and shoot-em-ups. Despite that, Umemoto’s work deserves wider attention, and, again, we’re pleased to give it some.

Complete Discography (newest to oldest):

Under construction. Will fix up when I can.

2011:

NIN2-JUMP (Xbox Live Arcade)
Instant Brain (Xbox 360)

2010:

Espgaluda II Black Label (Xbox 360)
Akai Katana (Arcade)
Akai Katana Shin (Xbox 360)

2009:

Mushihime-sama Futari: Black Label (Xbox 360)
Kaiten Illust Puzzle Guruguru Logic (Nintendo DSi)
Kitto, sumi wataru asa shoku yorimo (Windows)
Spinning “Guru Guru” Logic (Nintendo DSi)

2007:

R.U.R.U.R. (Windows)

2006:

CrymeRhymeParadox (Windows)
Ano Machi no Koi no Uta (Windows)
StoneAge2 (Windows)

2005:

Espgaluda II (Arcade, i-mode, iOS)
GLAS AUSZEICHNUNG (Windows)

2004:

Mushihime-sama (Arcade)

2003:

ECLIPSE (Windows)
Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi (Arcade, Xbox 360)

2002:

Popotan (Windows)

2000:

Psyvariar (Arcade, PlayStation 2)

1996:

YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world (PC-98, Saturn, Windows)
GROUNSEED (PC-98)

1995:

EVE Burst Error (PC-98, Saturn, Windows, PlayStation 2)

1994:

DESIRE ～Spiral of Immorarity～ (PC-98, Saturn, Windows, PlayStation 2)
XENON ～Phantom Limb～ (PC-98, FM Towns)

1993:

AZURE (FM Towns)
Dengeki Division (PC-98)
Macross: Remember Me (PC-98)
Mobile Suit Gundam: A Year of War (PC-98)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Return of Zion (PC-98)
MSX Train (MSX)
Princess Maker 2 (PC-98, FM Towns, PC Engine, Saturn, MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, GP32)
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (PC-98)
War Torn Versnag (PC-98)

1992:

HIBIKI (PC-98)
Mobile Suit Gundam Hyper Classic Operation (FM Towns)
Square Resort (X68000)

Examples of his Work:

Akai Katana (Arcade)/Akai Katana Shin (Xbox 360)

Stage 1 (Arcade)