![]() Taking cues from 80s and 90s action flicks, Detroit house, and the Eurobeat scene, Koshiro worked magic on the Genesis' FM synth sound chip and crafted a soundtrack that's equally appropriate for the sidescrolling beat-'em-up as it is at home at any dance club. There's a reason why Yuzo Koshiro's name is front and center on the title screen to Streets of Rage 2 - it's because he's a god among video game composers. “ City of Commerce,” with its plucked guitar and shuffling doumbek beat, is the sound of crumbling buildings overtaken with vines. Calling Nier’s soundtrack new age is misleading, but it’s the closest categorization there is for its mix of soaring orchestral pieces, quiet Spanish guitar, and Emi Evans’ ethereal singing in what she describes as “ made-up futuristic languages.” “ Hills of Radiant Wind” sounds like a cut from Now That’s What I Call Music in the technologically advanced future of Middle-earth. What happens when Square-Enix tries to make an action RPG that appeals to both east and west, with different main characters for each region? A bizarre, pastoral post-apocalyptic adventure starring a violent hermaphrodite and a talking book soundtracked by some of the most moving new age music ever written thanks to Keiichi Okabe. Nier made no sense when it came out in 2010 and it doesn’t make any more sense now that it’s become a cultishly adored tributary in the stream of PS3/360 RPGs.
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