Kenji Ito
The music of "SaGa 1" was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, and that of "SaGa 2" by Uematsu and Kenji Ito, while the music of "SaGa 3" was composed by Ryuji Sasai and Chihiro Fujioka. Uematsu has stated that while "SaGa 1"s music could be made of better quality, the emphasis was on enjoying the game, and not solely its appearance or sound. The Game Boy's sound hardware was different from that of the Famicom, which Uematsu was used to composing for at the time, with new stereo and waveforms and only three notes; as a result, Uematsu struggled with deciding how to work with these, developing new themes for the music in the process despite "SaGa 1"s director Akitoshi Kawazu's desire to have the music be in the same vein as Square's preceding "Final Fantasy" titles. Uematsu has stated that the Game Boy was a system he would like to compose for again. "SaGa 2" was the first soundtrack or album that Kenji Ito worked on.