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.
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PSA: Streets of Rage 4's soundtrack has some straight BANGERS
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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.
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 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 soundtrack for SoR4 doesn't really do it for me. The tracks are still fantastic though, but it's just incredibly hard not to compare them to SoR1 and SoR2 (especially when I can play the new game with the old OSTs).
Call The Cops is probably the only new track that legitimately gives me that transcendent feeling that the tracks of the original games had. I love the intro stage track as well, but it just reminded me too much of SoR2's intro stage theme, and I'd rather hear that.
Call The Cops is probably the only new track that legitimately gives me that transcendent feeling that the tracks of the original games had. I love the intro stage track as well, but it just reminded me too much of SoR2's intro stage theme, and I'd rather hear that.
SoR1 has the best OST in the franchise imo, but SoR2 is definitely an extremely close second. I guess it doesn't help that some of the best tracks in SoR2 are remixes of SoR1 tracks lol.
Sound Producer for Japanese artists here!
Loving the comments and all general feedback here. It wasn't easy managing all of the artists with their varying styles—I had plenty of long chats with Koshiro early on about what direction we should go in at a time when Olivier was still planning his own path. Kawashima, by comparison, was the earliest to settle on a style and stick to it. Somehow, we made it all work and it seems most people are happy with it. :)
Loving the comments and all general feedback here. It wasn't easy managing all of the artists with their varying styles—I had plenty of long chats with Koshiro early on about what direction we should go in at a time when Olivier was still planning his own path. Kawashima, by comparison, was the earliest to settle on a style and stick to it. Somehow, we made it all work and it seems most people are happy with it. :)
The tracks in SoR4 are infinitely better than the tracks on SoR3 lol.
I mean I didn't want to say nothing cause it might ruin the poll results. But yeah, it's true.
On my fourth playthrough, just finally getting some time to really appreciate the soundtrack and I just got to the part where "An exhibition" plays and came to the realisation that the OST Is absolutely at least on par with SoR2's
And game getting better the more time you spend with it is absolutely true: spent my first playthrough being a little annoyed by the little things the game didn't try or lacked, but then on my second playthrough started to appreciate its pureness and balance and its having just the right amount of everything (moves, combos, weapons, stages, variety..) without overdoing any of it and losing focus.
I have to say it's almost perfect
And game getting better the more time you spend with it is absolutely true: spent my first playthrough being a little annoyed by the little things the game didn't try or lacked, but then on my second playthrough started to appreciate its pureness and balance and its having just the right amount of everything (moves, combos, weapons, stages, variety..) without overdoing any of it and losing focus.
I have to say it's almost perfect
I was playing the Chinatown level when it hit me how much the music adds to the experience. It really carries the vibes well and compliments all of the action happening onscreen. It's just soooo good.
Having never played SoR before, SoR4 has been a big surprise. It's just... fun.
Shouldn't be surprised Olivier Deriviere is involved. His music continues to impress.
Having never played SoR before, SoR4 has been a big surprise. It's just... fun.
Shouldn't be surprised Olivier Deriviere is involved. His music continues to impress.
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.
Yeah it's really a soundtrack that gets better and better the more you listen to it. And the way it syncs up with the onscreen action is just fucking sublime.
Said it many times already but it will absolutely go down as one of my very favorite game soundtracks period, up there with what I consider the definite greats.
Said it many times already but it will absolutely go down as one of my very favorite game soundtracks period, up there with what I consider the definite greats.
The pre-Estel music is from a track called Down The Beatch, which isn't part of the full soundtrack.
However Olivier Deriviere has just released a stand-alone EP on his Bandcamp containing an extended version of Rising Up and a 3 min version of Down The Beatch.
If you buy the full soundtrack on Bandcamp now, Down The Beatch is supposedly now included with it, as apparently that's a thing Bandcamp can do but not other stores and streaming services.
Deriviere tweeted out last week that the EP is coming to other stores and streaming services soon.
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.
Bumping this so people see the light.
God damn, Doom was supposed to win the soundtrack contest this year but Streets of Rage just came and stole everything. It was a suprise cause I thought it wouldn't match the originals cause Yuzo isn't the one to make the whole thing but what we got was just perfection. Oliver in particular knocked it out of the park.
God damn, Doom was supposed to win the soundtrack contest this year but Streets of Rage just came and stole everything. It was a suprise cause I thought it wouldn't match the originals cause Yuzo isn't the one to make the whole thing but what we got was just perfection. Oliver in particular knocked it out of the park.
I likely won't ever play this as I'm not into Beat'em Ups but wow the OST shared here is truly amazing alright o.o
