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Sakuraba then continued to write music for games in franchises he has worked with before, including Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Golf: World Tour, and many Tales series games, including Hearts, Graces, Xillia, Xillia 2, Zestiria, and Berseria. 3, the 'Battlefield Theme', 'Final Destination', and 'Battle Scene / Final Boss (Golden Sun)' from Golden Sun: The Lost Age. He also arranged 'Gourmet Race' from Kirby Super Star, 'Jungle Level Ver.2' from Donkey Kong Country, 'Mario Tennis / Mario Golf' from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Power Tennis, 'Victory Road' from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the 'Airship Theme' from Super Mario Bros. He chose to arrange the famous 'Menu Theme' from the game's predecessor, Super Smash Bros. In 2007, Sakuraba was selected to join a long list of video game composers to arrange music for Super Smash Bros. The remnants of Wolf Team later morphed into the Namco Telenet joint subsidiary Namco Tales Studio in 2003. This has extended to the sequel, Baten Kaitos Origins, and Eternal Sonata. Hatsushiba, as director and main programmer of the project, again called upon Sakuraba's composing services. Together with Monolith Soft, tri-Crescendo started working on Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean Namco provided the financial backing.

While initially continuing to contribute sound work to tri-Ace games, tri-Crescendo began game development in 2001. In 1999, long time Sakuraba sound designer and programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba, a former member of Wolf Team and tri-Ace, founded tri-Crescendo. Sakuraba has been the composer for nearly all of their games. The Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile games have been their main franchises. Also in 1995, former Wolf Team director and producer Jun Asanuma, as well as Tales of Phantasia writer and programmer Yoshiharu Gotanda, founded tri-Ace with financial backing from Enix. This and other early games in the Tales series primarily featured Sakuraba and fellow Wolf Team co-worker Shinji Tamura as composers. In 1995, Wolf Team developed the breakthrough game Tales of Phantasia for Namco. Sakuraba has been called upon as a composer for many Camelot games, including all of the games in the Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Golden Sun series.

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In 1994, former Wolf Team director and composer Masaaki Uno started working at Camelot Software Planning as a coordinator and sound director, developing games for Sony, Sega and Nintendo.

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The professional friendships formed here in Sakuraba's early years have resulted in a great demand for his composing and arranging abilities. In late 1989, Sakuraba began working as a composer for Wolf Team, joining Masaaki Uno and Yasunori Shiono. Although the band disbanded in 1989, Sakuraba would later go on to release a similar-sounding solo album, Gikyokuonsou, in 1991. In 1988, the band would release their only studio album, Baroque in the Future, composed entirely by Sakuraba. The band had then added bassist Tetsuya Nagatsuma, and was renamed as 'Deja Vu'. After the duo had graduated the following year, they were noticed by music producer Shingo Ueno, and ending up signing with Made in Japan Records. While attending Meiji University, Sakuraba began to take music composition seriously and formed the progressive rock band 'Clashed Ice' in 1984, consisting of him on keyboards and Genta Kudo on drums and vocals. Sakuraba was born on August 5, 1965, in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, including the Tales, Star Ocean, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, and Dark Souls series, as well as several other anime series, television dramas, and progressive rock albums. Motoi Sakuraba ( 桜庭統, Sakuraba Motoi, born August 5, 1965) is a Japanese composer and keyboardist.

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