Hitoshi Sakimoto
Matsuo began his career arranging Sugiyama's pieces for ' in 1991. His first work as a also came in 1991, with the video game "Master of Monsters". His first notable work came in 1993 with ', which he worked on with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata. Since then, he has worked on over 30 other video games, both as a composer and orchestrator.