Romancing SaGa
His first project was a co-effort that same year between himself and Nobuo Uematsu for the Game Boy title "Final Fantasy Legend II" ("SaGa 2"). It led the following year to the first album release of his music, "All Sounds of SaGa", which was a combination album of "The Final Fantasy Legend", "Final Fantasy Legend II", and "Final Fantasy Legend III"; all of Ito's work on "Legend II" appeared on the album. Shortly after in 1991, he composed his first solo work, the soundtrack for "Final Fantasy Adventure" ("Seiken Densetsu"), another Game Boy title. He then returned to the "SaGa" series for the next few years, composing the soundtracks to the Super Famicom's "Romancing SaGa", "Romancing SaGa 2", and "Romancing SaGa 3". These soundtracks sparked Ito's first arranged albums; the first game was arranged in a French musical style by Masaaki Mizuguchi, while the other two were arranged by Ryou Fukui and Taro Iwashiro, respectively, into orchestral pieces. Ito was originally scheduled to continue on with the "Mana" series and compose the soundtrack to "Seiken Densetsu 2" ("Secret of Mana"), but was forced to hand the project off to Hiroki Kikuta as his first score due to the demand on his time for scoring "Romancing SaGa".