00:01I always wanted to do video games and music was always part of my life so I
00:06decided at the young age to do music for games. I'm Olivier de Riviere and I'm the main composer
00:13on Streets of Rage 4. There is a big story behind me being involved into Streets of Rage 4
00:20because an hour before meeting for the first time with Serial I was discussing with a friend of
00:26mine and we were discussing Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack and we were like it's been such a
00:32long time we haven't had a Streets of Rage game you know and it was like a sort of a
00:38good conversation
00:39and then I meet Serial and Serial is like oh you know Olivier de Riviere I'd like you to work
00:45with
00:45me maybe you know let's introduce you with my next game and I was like okay what's your next game
00:50and then he tells me it's Streets of Rage 4 and I start laughing because I think that's
00:56that's a good joke guys but you know I I know where it comes from and he showed me the
01:02trailer
01:03and I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe the fact that number one I had just discussed this
01:08you know with a friend of mine like few minutes ago and then this very game is happening and then
01:14he was asking me to do the score I was like oh I don't know you know basically we knew
01:21that the
01:22music in Streets of Rage series was something super important so that has been a central subject for
01:28us since the beginning basically we've been starting to think about it with the whole team very early in
01:36the process and we had many different ideas but the fans and people in general in general will be
01:42expecting something quite unique and we wanted as well to do something innovative but at the same time
01:48that would be up to the legacy of the series we wanted to get together the original spirits of
01:56the series with the sound of Yuzo Koshiro, Motohiro Kawashima but as well something more modern something
02:03that would sound like a game from 2019 our guess on that was that we had to gather different artists
02:10on
02:10the game the original artists of course artists with influence from Japanese games from the 80s 90s but
02:20as well as more modern artists from the west and we thought it was a cool idea and so we
02:27started to
02:27kind of think think about different artists that are maybe younger artists less famous artists but
02:32they that are not actually video game composers but artists that do music for for nowadays basically we
02:39started to work with artists like Grounded's Lava Excel Middleton but we also in the end choose to work
02:52with artists that are working in the video game industry but I've had have a very special touch
02:58like for example Scaddle which is a great artist that worked on Hotline Miami
03:08so the idea was to say okay we need kind of an artist that would like do most of the
03:14OST but in a very
03:15special way and very modern way but in the same spirit as it was in the in the previous series
03:20and
03:20and that's when basically we started to think about oh yeah looking at his work looking at everything
03:26he did in in his different works in the past for like okay that's something that really gets the the
03:33perfect fusion between gameplay and music and Streets of Rage is all about the fusion between gameplay and
03:40music playing Streets of Rage is like listening to an album but like it would be kind of an interactive
03:45album the first feeling was I mean Koshiro that was the first feeling and always it has a he has
03:57always been you know attached with this project from my own start to the very end of the project so
04:04that was the first thought the only thing that I told myself was I don't want to go with it
04:10his style
04:11that's the first thing because he's unique and to go trying to mimic what he's done would be I guess
04:20something that would feel wrong to everybody myself included so it was not to be disrespectful but also
04:29to let him you know have his own take because he's part of the project and that's what's really amazing
04:36for me is like he in he injects the flavor of Streets of Rage and I take it from there
04:44and I as the game is
04:46doing you know more than I is to take you know on my own but he's still around for sure
05:11, it's not very good at it I think I can do more than that at this point
05:13in a big year皆さんご存じのようにベアナックル更新新はMega
05:15Driveで FM音源というチップで鳴らしていた音楽なんですけどそれがあの4では全く新しい普通の音楽になってしまうんですよねチップチューンではないということでだからすごくどういう方向性の音楽にするかっていうのをすごく悩みましたね
05:17fm-on-genっていう chipで鳴らしていた
05:25ombraなんですけど4では全く新しい普通の音楽になってしまうんですよね
05:42chiptuneではないということでだからすごくどういう方向性の音楽にするかっていうのをすごく悩みましたね今まではね私と川島さんでやってたわけですけどそこに新しいベアナックルのテイストが
06:07入ってくるベアナックル音楽のテイストが入ってくるっていうのは非常に個人的にはものすごい楽しみベアナックルって80年後半から90年前半にかけてのクラブミュージックっていうのはすごく影響されてるんですよねその影響を私が強く受けて作っているので当時の制作方法に一旦変えて
06:36そこから作り直すというかですね今はすごくコンピューターが便利になってコンピューター上で何でもかんでもできるんですけどそうではなくて昔使っていたシンセサイザーとか昔使っていたリズムマシンとかそういうのをもう一回使ってちゃんと音を録音して丁寧に作っていくっていうそういうやり方をしたいなと思って
06:58それをやりましたねレアナックル4を作るときに昔影響を受けた音楽というのを今SpotifyとかYouTubeで聴けるのでそれを何度も聴いて思い出して当時の気持ちを呼び起こしてというか思い出してそれで作っていきました
07:09まず私たちの問題を解決して答えられているのでそれから作っている前にいろいろが掴
07:26Cakeを調整した音楽をすると作成音楽は私の音楽はやりろいろいろな音楽で
07:27per un giusto. Come giusto, noi sappiamo che quando si arriva in un boss è molto speciale,
07:33e che è ancora più speciale perché adesso hai questa musica che è completamente
07:38out of the scope perché tutti era libero, depending su loro stile o genre che volevo fare.
07:48Per fare un'impresione per i giocatori con la musica, bisogna parlare molto con il giusto.
07:54Quindi, con Jordi, abbiamo spento molto tempo parlare sulle intenzioni,
08:02come se, questa parte è ok, l'introduzione, tu combatti un po', questa parte è molto difficile,
08:10questa parte non è così difficile.
08:12E, basicamente, hearinglo fare questa struttura, mi ha aiutato a fare la musica,
08:19seguendo le intenzioni, e fare la musica più consistente con la esperienza di giocatori.
08:23e fare la esperienza.
08:24Well, the whole soundtrack for the levels is following the story of the game, for sure.
08:30And without telling anything, you know, you start in the streets,
08:35and it's very dirty, and it's very Streets of Rage.
08:38And the idea was, at some point, to be, ok, as it is a progression,
08:44let's just think of it as if it was a DG set.
08:48So let's start with something that is more like, let's say, downbeat,
08:52something that is a little slow, you know, and then the more you progress in the game,
08:58the more you will feel the urge and the sense of, let's say, adrenaline.
09:04Like, you would enter a level that, I won't describe the level itself,
09:08but, you know, with the music, so you would have, like, the intro,
09:10to go, so very dubstep.
09:17And there is this feeling, and now you have the first exposure of the melody.
09:27And then, you know, depending, you're moving on, so to the next section,
09:33so the music will go, like, that.
09:36So no more melodies, but you have this very feeling of dubstep.
09:40I mean, for people that want to know, there is, like, storm, waves,
09:44so that's why the music is so, like, patatata.
09:46It's to illustrate the visuals right now.
09:49And then something happens, and then you have the melody back.
10:08So that's the same melody as the beginning,
10:11and then you move on to the next section,
10:13and it will become a little more difficult.
10:20Soon enough, like here.
10:24Now the game is becoming more intense, the gameplay,
10:27so music has to go like this.
10:29A little Streets of Rage flavor.
10:36And we go.
10:39And then, after this section, we're going elsewhere,
10:42and so the music will follow up with the melody again.
10:48And you finish the level.
10:49So it's a very condensed version.
10:52Of course, the music explore, you know, is much longer,
10:55with a lot of variations, but here you have, like, the structures.
10:59Working on a game like Streets of Rage 4 is very special for me
11:02and for all the team.
11:03I remember playing the first one on the Game Gear
11:08at the backseat of my parents' car.
11:11And basically, last summer, I was in a car with Yuzo Koshiro
11:17and MotoHiro Kawashima, and it just felt amazing.
11:21It's just, I think, something that you don't have lots of time in your life.
11:26So we really want to make the best out of it,
11:29and we're super excited to show it to everyone.
11:32Working on Streets of Rage 4 is scary as hell.
11:36That's...
11:37I'm very scared. I was scared. I'm still scared.
11:40I don't know. It's something that I have never done.
11:44And on every aspect.
11:46And it's a big honor.
11:48I feel like, you know, I hope I gave the best that I could.
11:52And this is what I did.
11:54And I hope that players will enjoy it.
11:57But I don't know.
11:58I mean, it's very difficult to come after such legend,
12:03legendary composers,
12:04and I'm very grateful to be part of the project.
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