“I’ve mentioned this in interviews before, but I was so keen that for the title screen arrangement of Dearly Beloved, I went directly to the programmers to confirm the exact timing!”
“I was quite emotionally invested and put a lot of myself into it,” she told Heaney. With the arrival of Kingdom Hearts IIin 2005, Shimomura’s bond with “Dearly Beloved” was already fully-forged. It was through Chain of Memories that the song’s lasting legacy was forged - she wanted her music to reflect the memory aspect of the game’s title so it was only fitting that a well-received track from the previous game returned with aplomb.
KINGDOM HEARTS COMPOSER SERIES
Given that the epic series was only just beginning, Shimomura had no idea how impactful (and far-reaching) “Dearly Beloved” would become. We were only able to record two songs in the studio – the majority of the sound was generated internally by the PS2 and I really struggled to improve the sound quality of the instruments using the hardware.” “In terms of technology, the sound came from hardware – tone generators, synths, samplers, and so on. Dearly Beloved just came to my mind one day, while I was thinking about that – picturing the sea and the waves.”Īlthough her vision for the track was clear, implementing it into the game proved tricky due to the technical limitations of the PlayStation 2 console: She recalls: “I was playing the beginning of the game, set in the Destiny Islands, and I was struck by a lot of imagery about the sea. It sounds like while “Dearly Beloved” developed in the composer’s mind with relative ease, technical issues were the real hurdle. Naturally, Heaney’s interview begins with talk of the original Kingdom Hearts.
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