Yes. SOR4 stands shoulder to shoulder with SOR1 and SOR2 as a top tier soundtrack. Which is insane to even say Streets of Rage 1 and 2 have one of the best OST's ever. Deriviere killed it.
Honestly I think it's a slow burn. It certainly didn't disappoint on a first run, but it took me a lot of replays before I really took it all in.Avoiding this at the moment so I can be wowed when I play it. I have no doubt this is good!
I'll say this; I think the Yuzo Koshiro tracks are the best in the game and it would've been cool if he did the entire thing.
Haven't played SOR4 yet so I don't wanna spoil the OST, but I revisited SOR1's tracks and damn those things hold up. That was the one I played the least when younger, but oddly enough besides a few songs on 2 I think 1 has stuck with me more
As long as it's better than SOR3 I'm good. I couldn't stand any of the tracks in that game.
I mean I didn't want to say nothing cause it might ruin the poll results. But yeah, it's true.
I agree. 4's OST has some real bangers but I don't think you could ever top 2 and that's not a knock on the composers for 4, it's just 2 has such a high bar for me. Still probably my favorite game OST.It's good, but I listened to 2's full OST the next day and it wasn't close. And that was limited to using the genesis hardware, man.
The pre-Estel music is from a track called Down The Beatch, which isn't part of the full soundtrack.It is killer. There are a few tunes I don't like but the majority if it is absolutely awesome.
The OST on Spotify doesn't seem to have the song that plays in the lead-up to the first fight with Estel and that brief portion always gets my blood bumping, I love it so much. Maybe I'm just missing it as part of a larger song?
The more I hear Koshiro's tracks, the more I feel most of them are just kinda okay-ish riffs off his past SoR work. Deriviere and the other guest composers' tracks stand out more to me. I've caught myself humming Nora and Barbon's boss themes at work the last few days.The main menu theme, or at least the opening notes of it, does a terrible job at setting the mood when compared to either of the first two games' intro themes, the first of which this theme is very obviously cribbing from.
"They're Back" is a poor man's imitation of "Go Straight."
And while the Mr. & Ms. Y themes are really good, I think they still pulled a little more from "Big Boss" than they should have.'
Don't get me wrong. In a vacuum, each of those songs are fine for what they are. But Koshiro's contribution to this soundtrack invites the most unfavorable comparisons to the old games, as so much of it is lifting from those classic songs. If there's any disappointment I have for this soundtrack, it's that he felt that he had to (or was instructed to) write music that could live in no place other than the shadows of his old works.