{"id":43113,"date":"2018-08-28T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/streets_of_rage_composer_makes_ambiguous_comment_about_his_involvement_with_fourth_game"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:05:00","slug":"streets-of-rage-composer-makes-ambiguous-comment-about-his-involvement-with-fourth-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/streets-of-rage-composer-makes-ambiguous-comment-about-his-involvement-with-fourth-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets Of Rage Composer Makes Ambiguous Comment About His Involvement With Fourth Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3485778bd95a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b3485778bd95a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/streets_of_rage_composer_makes_ambiguous_comment_about_his_involvement_with_fourth_game\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Reflect on Sega&#8217;s <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/streets_of_rage\">Streets of Rage<\/a><\/strong> series and you&#8217;ll no doubt remember the radical\u00a0soundtrack. It was all thanks to the magic of Japanese composer,\u00a0Yuzo Koshiro. The music for this particular series was considered ahead of its time, experimenting with an array of styles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As unbelievable as the <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/streets_of_rage_4_is_really_happening_thanks_to_the_team_behind_the_wonder_boy_reboot\">Streets of Rage 4<\/a><\/strong> announcement is, it&#8217;s already raised a few questions. One, in particular, is about the electric dance-influenced music score the series was so well known for and if the original composer will be making a return.\u00a0According to the tweet from the man himself, Koshiro understands what fans are expecting and is currently unable to discuss anything regarding the newly announced fourth entry, developed by Lizardcube and DotEmu &#8211; the studios behind\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/wonder_boy_the_dragons_trap\">Wonder Boy: The Dragon&#8217;s Trap<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>reboot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks guys. I think I understand what you are expecting. But currently I can say nothing about the SOR4 things right here. I hope you guys understand&#8230;<\/span>\u2014 \u53e4\u4ee3\u7950\u4e09 (@yuzokoshiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yuzokoshiro\/status\/1034137319211556864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The press release for the fourth game says there&#8217;ll be a &#8220;thumping soundtrack to get your blood pumping&#8221;, and makes reference to Koshiro as the original composer of the series. Though, it doesn&#8217;t clarify if he&#8217;ll be returning or not. We can only hope he does, as\u00a0his music is what helped make the original\u00a0tetralogy of\u00a0beat &#8217;em up games so popular.<\/p>\n<p>As we previously noted,\u00a0platforms are currently unconfirmed, but given that Wonder Boy appeared on the Switch, the chances of a Nintendo version are good.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited about Streets of Rage 4? Do you hope Yuzo Koshiro is linked to the new game&#8217;s soundtrack?\u00a0Tell us below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Reflect on Sega&#8217;s Streets of Rage series and you&#8217;ll no doubt remember the radical\u00a0soundtrack. It was all thanks to the magic of Japanese composer,\u00a0Yuzo Koshiro. The music for this particular series was considered ahead of its time, experimenting with an array of styles.\u00a0 As unbelievable as the Streets of Rage 4 announcement is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}