Streets of Rage 4

That track was, uh, quite amazing, one of the best parts of that game and the soundtrack.

As to Streets of Rage 4, uh, you were a part of that soundtrack as well, but most of it was composed by, uh, Olivier Deriviere.

Uh, what are your thoughts on the Streets of Rage 4, uh, soundtrack as a whole? Uh, did you enjoy it? Uh, did you find it, uh, it, it took the series in the right direction, and did it live up to the Streets of Rage spirit?

Mm.

[in Japanese] As you said, uh, Olivier Deriviere was the, uh, main composer of Streets of Rage 4, and I was the gu- guest composer.

But actually, like, I worked on, for example, the main stage.

Uh, and so in making that theme, I hearkened back to, um, what I did on Streets of Rage 2.

Like, I wanted...

Andrew is one of the main composers of the game, working alongside T. Lopes, 2 Mellow and other notable composers who created refreshing and energetic music that's quickly turned into one of my favourite soundtracks.

Andrew has also been involved in other game soundtracks including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge and Streets of Rage 4.

In the interview I really wanted to get to learn what it was like to work in a collaboration of composers.

Was it mostly solo work or did they all come together to create the music? We touch on this and much more in our conversation.

Something like that.

Unfortunately, the only note I've got on it is maybe not quite as good as Streets of Rage 4.

Okay, fair enough.

Which, now that I'm sitting and thinking about it, I kind of stand by.

I remember there being a lot of options and I remember there being a lot of things you can unlock to give you more options and that's good.

If you're going to be punching people in the face repeatedly, it's good that it's not inherently repetitive and you have various tools you can use and stuff like that.

But at the same time, I think what I quite liked about Streets of Rage 4 was it gave you a lot of those options but upfront, like you had that kind of immediacy of being able to just wade in and make it happen rather than having to wait until you'd got X many dollars to go and buy it from one of the lads that was in Double Dragon.

Which I kind of like.

But, you know, you load the game and it runs well.

I was playing Streets of Rage 4 and everything was just, like, pretty awesome.

An interesting idea, right, Oliver? Yeah.

It is interesting, and I think it's totally a plausible direction that a company like Valve could go down at the moment.

I mean, you still can't get a full fight ahead of your friend, but the screen will shift a little bit to the left and right to make sure that you're not stuck on stuff.

I think Streets of Rage 4 came out a few years ago, and it's still...

I mean, I think it did gangbusters on Steam.

I think it was very, very popular.

Wait.

Streets.

Are we talking about Streets of Rage 4?

Yeah.

For those who don't know, Absalom is a fantasy 2D beat-em-up brawler that is made by...

The this team, I forget the name of the developer, but the the team is made up of the people, at least some of the people who designed the combat of Streets of Rage 4.

So, you know, which for my money is like the best 2D beat them up, you know, action game ever made.

So the idea of them making a brand new IP in a fantasy setting that is also like a roguelite kind of structure, that turns my crank.

That, that was, uh, that was pretty cool.

Streets of Rage 4.

I mean, those sort of types of game would just run, uh, extremely well on, on Steam Frame 'cause it's a, it's a low-power device.

You know, throw in Cuphead, that sort of thing.

Um, so yeah, expectation management is the order of the day really.

Uh, you gotta pick your battles.

And as I said, you know, I played Streets of Rage 4 locally.

That was the first game I actually played on the, uh, Steam Frame.

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