During and After Falcom: Takahiro Tsunashima

Takahiro Tsunashima joined Falcom during that same 1992 period alongside Naoki Kaneda, Masaru Nakajima, and Hirofumi Matsuoka. He would contribute music towards most titles probably until The Legend of Heroes IV before focusing more on sound programming and ultimately leaving Falcom to become the lead composer of the ex-Falcom employee founded game developer Gruppo One. We will see in the rest of this post how many times he would switch from a slow melodic style to an extremely technical and aggressive style. Like the three others, he debuted in Brandish 2:

Following Brandish 2, Tsunashima would appear in Ys IV:

Next, he would contribute a small number of songs in The Legend of Xanadu. Included in his set is "The Beginning of the Legend" which is one of Falcom's finest songs and one of the best introductory themes to any video game:

In the Legend of Heroes III, he contributed a small number of tracks including:

Several months later, Tsunashima would compose for his first lead role, contributing the most tracks in Brandish 3. It is a defining moment in his career and shows a huge musical and technical evolution in his composition style. This is the Tsunashima we would hear several years later after Falcom in the Gruppo One games.

At this point, Tsunashima would focus more on sound programming than anything else. In the end, he'd contribute one last track in the Legend of Heroes IV: A Tear of Vermilion. Shortly after he would leave Falcom:

After leaving, and alongside other ex-Falcom members, they formed a new game company called Gruppo One. There are four notable games here, three which I will show where he was the only composer. In the first game, he composed alongside Hirofumi Matsuoka. There are no individual credits for this game. Because of this, we'll move on to following three games:

Ding! ~MONO~. Ding!

キャンプ

平原ステージ

城内ステージ

街道ステージ

氷穴ステージ

高原ステージ

工業都市ステージ

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Eternal Flame

氷の宮殿

ホワイト・バス

戦闘１

ジーナ

ダーム

エンディング

Shadow Kingdom

チェイス・ウッズ

H.Dah

Unfortunately, Gruppo one disbanded, and there is no information on what happend to Takahiro Tsunashima afterwards. Recently, I heard from a ex-coworker he now works completely unrelated to game music.