My current Project Title:

https://naivesl.com/

I describe myself as a

director

My areas of expertise include:

animator

About me - current project:

Some melodies do not merely accompany a game — they become inseparable from a moment in your life. Long after the screen goes dark, the music lingers. These are the compositions that refused to be forgotten.



Halo: Combat Evolved

A choir breathes across silence, and suddenly you are standing on a ringworld for the first time. The main theme distilled wonder into two minutes — an opening so vast it made the universe feel accessible, and quietly told you that games could be epic.



The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Music was not a backdrop here — it was the game itself. Saria's Song, Gerudo Valley, the haunting Song of Storms: each melody was a place, a feeling, a memory encoded in six notes played on a small clay flute.



Final Fantasy VII

No soundtrack in gaming has carried more emotional weight. Aerith's Theme remains one of the most quietly devastating pieces ever composed — a lullaby for a loss that arrived without warning, etched permanently into a generation's memory.



The Last of Us

A single guitar, spare and aching. Santaolalla's score abandoned orchestral grandeur for intimacy — two fingers plucking strings over a broken world. The main theme sounds like holding on to something you know you will lose.



Memory is unreliable. Music is not.
These soundtracks will outlast the consoles that played them.



Here's your article — this time styled with a warm, editorial music-magazine aesthetic, using Playfair Display serif for an intimate, literary feel.

The piece covers six landmark game soundtracks across different eras — from Koji Kondo's timeless work on Ocarina of Time to Keiichi Okabe's transcendent score for NieR: Automata — each described not just as music, but as an emotional memory tied to a moment in time.

My home region is:

Central Valley