Please tell us how you got involved in this game and how you felt about it.
There was a fan of sfpr among the staff creating this game, and it was the reason they offered us. The staff has come to our live. We were very glad to get the offer.
We appreciate the offer because we have been working on different works recently, so this is an opportunity to work together for the first time in a while.
As you created the music for this game, what did you value the most? Also, please tell the users about your recommended points as they listen to it.
We've created three songs this time. We input the worldview information to figure out where and in which scenes we use the music. We, sfpr, have also addressed cyberpunk worldviews or post-apocalyptic themes, so we were a good match. We tried to fit our worldview to the game, so we'll be glad if the users could enjoy the music beyond a BGM, but as a system to get immersed into the game. We hope the users not only listen to the music but also accept it as a sound of the world.
In that sense, the users do not need to understand the meaning of the lyrics at first. The lyrics are one of the instruments composing this music. This is our usual style to make the lyrics with a mysterious language but with meanings. We want the users to enjoy the music without caring too much about the lyrics at first and get the message in it later.
It was a game music. Did you feel any differences, difficulties, or joy compared to the usual music creation?
We didn't face any difficulties because it was game music. Rather, as we talked about above, we could envision better by matching our worldviews. It was an exciting experience.
【Velvet React】will be distributed from 【EROLABS】to the world. Besides Japanese, it is also available in Chinese, Korean, and English (the Voice is only in Japanese.)
What do you expect this game to be?
In the early 2010s, when we had worked actively, Asian music was sounding at the corner of the world. But, now, it is expanding globally.
We have created music that does not sound like Japanese but is Japanese (the message in it is important, but the language itself is destroyed) imagining the world of post-apocalypse which can also be interpreted as a world without nationalities or borders.
We hope that people in various countries hum our songs without caring how the lyrics sound.
Please give a message to the users waiting for the release.
We have played the music as if we were in the world of this game.
Let's play it together!
Theme Song Artist Profile
The band formed by SG(Ba,Vo) and FZ(Gu,Vo,Programming).
In 2012, when the word "mixture" had been dead, with the new-worldly writing, they mixed rock and dance music and attracted attention by making sounds including EDM such as drum and bass or dubstep. After "apocalypse," they released three albums; "New World," "revolution," and "evolution." Through those, they have sewed the story digging into the rule of the world and hollowing out the dignity of humans based on the theme of cyberpunk(unbalanced nature and artificiality), eschatology(original sin of humans), and dystopia(the future of this planet.)
They plan to restart in 2024 releasing a new song and holding a live.