| UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes Original Soundtrack | |
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Composer: |
Raito, Jun Ichikawa |
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Release Date: |
January 25, 2024 |
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Classification: |
Original Soundtrack, Vocal |
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Publish Format: |
Limited Edition |
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Media Format: |
CD + Blu-ray |
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Release Price: |
10780 JPY |
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Publisher: |
Arc System Works |
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Performers: |
ucio, ellie, Kaito Akatsuka, Masayuki Sekimoto |
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Lyrics: |
RyoRca, Meco Yamamoto |
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes Original Soundtrack is the fifth soundtrack. It is included in the limited edition of UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes.
It includes a selection of 24 music tracks from the game and a Blu-ray disc that includes all the opening movies from the series.
Tracklist[]
| # | Title | Description | Length |
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| 01 | 輪廻の |
Console opening theme | 3:12 |
| 02 | Long-await final screening | Main Menu theme | 2:59 |
| 03 | Begin System Cerestial... | Character Select theme | 3:05 |
| 04 | Demons & Snakes | Versus Screen theme | 0:14 |
| 05 | Scraper Sky High [UNI2 Mix] | Hyde's theme | 3:36 |
| 06 | Keep on Shining! | Tsurugi's theme | 3:31 |
| 07 | Night Walker [UNI2 Mix] | Linne's theme | 3:47 |
| 08 | Purity&Strictly [UNI2 Mix] | Orie's theme | 3:59 |
| 09 | Rushing Heart [UNI2 Mix] | Gordeau's theme | 3:54 |
| 10 | Tearing Bullet | Kaguya's theme | 4:03 |
| 11 | Monochrome Memory [UNI2 Mix] | Seth's theme | 4:03 |
| 12 | Blood Drain -Again- [UNI2 Mix] | Eltnum's theme | 3:20 |
| 13 | Sound of Night wind [UNI2 Mix] | Phonon's theme | 3:22 |
| 14 | Relatively Despair | Hilda's theme | 3:34 |
| 15 | Forceful Step [UNI2 Mix] | Mika's theme | 3:36 |
| 16 | Extreme Stream [UNI2 Mix] | Enkidu's theme | 3:27 |
| 17 | Gallant Girl _Sora yori Nagare, Hasiru Kaze [UNI2 Mix] | Nanase's theme | 3:13 |
| 18 | Icefield White Knight [UNI2 Mix] | Londrekia's theme | 3:11 |
| 19 | Rebirth, Immortal Advent | Kuon's theme | 3:42 |
| 20 | No Medication | Victory Screen theme | 1:01 |
| 21 | Load Exist | Network Mode theme | 5:04 |
| 22 | もう怯えないで | Ending theme | 2:18 |
| 23 | Close your eyes | Ending theme | 2:03 |
| 24 | See you somewhere... | Game Over theme | 0:15 |
| # | Title | Description | Length |
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| 01 | Rinne no Owari e | Console opening theme | 3:12 |
| 02 | Long-await final screening | Main Menu theme | 2:59 |
| 03 | Begin System Cerestial... | Character Select theme | 3:05 |
| 04 | Demons & Snakes | Versus Screen theme | 0:14 |
| 05 | Scraper Sky High [UNI2 Mix] | Hyde's theme | 3:36 |
| 06 | Keep on Shining! | Tsurugi's theme | 3:31 |
| 07 | Night Walker [UNI2 Mix] | Linne's theme | 3:47 |
| 08 | Purity&Strictly [UNI2 Mix] | Orie's theme | 3:59 |
| 09 | Rushing Heart [UNI2 Mix] | Gordeau's theme | 3:54 |
| 10 | Tearing Bullet | Kaguya's theme | 4:03 |
| 11 | Monochrome Memory [UNI2 Mix] | Seth's theme | 4:03 |
| 12 | Blood Drain -Again- [UNI2 Mix] | Eltnum's theme | 3:20 |
| 13 | Sound of Night wind [UNI2 Mix] | Phonon's theme | 3:22 |
| 14 | Relatively Despair | Hilda's theme | 3:34 |
| 15 | Forceful Step [UNI2 Mix] | Mika's theme | 3:36 |
| 16 | Extreme Stream [UNI2 Mix] | Enkidu's theme | 3:27 |
| 17 | Gallant Girl _Sora yori Nagare, Hasiru Kaze [UNI2 Mix] | Nanase's theme | 3:13 |
| 18 | Icefield White Knight [UNI2 Mix] | Londrekia's theme | 3:11 |
| 19 | Rebirth, Immortal Advent | Kuon's theme | 3:42 |
| 20 | No Medication | Victory Screen theme | 1:01 |
| 21 | Load Exist | Network Mode theme | 5:04 |
| 22 | Mou Obienaide | Ending theme | 2:18 |
| 23 | Close your eyes | Ending theme | 2:03 |
| 24 | See you somewhere... | Game Over theme | 0:15 |
| # | Title | Description | Length |
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| 01 | The End of Reincarnation | Console opening theme | 3:12 |
| 02 | Long-await final screening | Main Menu theme | 2:59 |
| 03 | Begin System Cerestial... | Character Select theme | 3:05 |
| 04 | Demons & Snakes | Versus Screen theme | 0:14 |
| 05 | Scraper Sky High [UNI2 Mix] | Hyde's theme | 3:36 |
| 06 | Keep on Shining! | Tsurugi's theme | 3:31 |
| 07 | Night Walker [UNI2 Mix] | Linne's theme | 3:47 |
| 08 | Purity&Strictly [UNI2 Mix] | Orie's theme | 3:59 |
| 09 | Rushing Heart [UNI2 Mix] | Gordeau's theme | 3:54 |
| 10 | Tearing Bullet | Kaguya's theme | 4:03 |
| 11 | Monochrome Memory [UNI2 Mix] | Seth's theme | 4:03 |
| 12 | Blood Drain -Again- [UNI2 Mix] | Eltnum's theme | 3:20 |
| 13 | Sound of Night wind [UNI2 Mix] | Phonon's theme | 3:22 |
| 14 | Relatively Despair | Hilda's theme | 3:34 |
| 15 | Forceful Step [UNI2 Mix] | Mika's theme | 3:36 |
| 16 | Extreme Stream [UNI2 Mix] | Enkidu's theme | 3:27 |
| 17 | Gallant Girl _Sora yori Nagare, Hasiru Kaze [UNI2 Mix] | Nanase's theme | 3:13 |
| 18 | Icefield White Knight [UNI2 Mix] | Londrekia's theme | 3:11 |
| 19 | Rebirth, Immortal Advent | Kuon's theme | 3:42 |
| 20 | No Medicatione | Victory Screen theme | 1:01 |
| 21 | Load Exist | Network Mode theme | 5:04 |
| 22 | Peace of Mind | Ending theme | 2:18 |
| 23 | Close your eyes | Ending theme | 2:03 |
| 24 | See you somewhere... | Game Over theme | 0:15 |
Comment from the Composer, Raito[]
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH started to operate as an arcade game on September 2012. After launching a fighting game in the arcades, the usual flow was to wait some time before releasing a console port. That's why the BGM in UNI were produced with the intent that they're listened in arcades. Numerous games are gathered in arcades and several sounds overlap with each other. To create BGM and sound effect that would reach player's ears within that place... As a game, the sound effect were a higher priority than the BGM so the first step was to get them to stand out. I had to think about BGMs that you could hear between the sound effects to leave an impression on the players. Encounters in arcades are precious. You need to be able to leave an impression for the first-time players.
Quite a long time has passed since the times I worked on the sound effects for original UNI, and we started working on UNI2. During that time happened a huge, positive change. The great popularity overseas and being chosen for large-scale events created the need to focus on the world stage when creating sounds. On the other hand, the course of decline has continued with the arcades. Nowadays players start from the console version. I needed to think what happens to my BGM created with the arcades in mind. Unlike in the arcades, playing a console game isn't usually interrupted by various noises so it's possible to create much more delicate sounds and songs. Is it alright to shift the production style to focus on console environment? In conclusion, the BGM in UNI2 were created with the usual style taking arcade environment into consideration. Porting BGMs created for console environment to an arcade port could lead to several problems, but on the other hand, arcade environment BGMs don't affect console players that much. I also had to think about the balance between existing BGMs and new characters' songs. This might be old-fashioned way of thinking, but I hope people continue to play UNI in the arcades. Existing characters' BGM received rearrange and a re-recording. The biggest change was the length of songs. Considering the highest peak of the song, the usual song length was about 110~130 seconds. We extended them to 180~220 seconds with additional new parts on the latter half. With this, the peak of a song comes about twice during a match instead of just looping the song.
The overall composition direction was to avoid giving the players a feeling that song sounds out of place. In UNI, the songs are character themes instead of being stage themes. That binding is strong. As a new release, we want the songs to have something new, but making too big changes might end up damaging the impression on the character whose theme is in question. Balancing around that issue was hard. Regarding the recording of this soundtrack. As the tracks have gotten longer, recording two loops of a song would decrease the number of tracks for a disc. This time BGMs don't loop, but instead we build the tracks so that they have proper endings. Because of these circumstances, the tracks have a little different composition than in the game. I think it's interesting to listen to each and compare them. As for the new characters BGMs, they have been created with the same standards as the rest of the BGMs. In UNI2, Hilda is no longer a boss character and her theme has been created anew while referring to phrases from her previous theme. Kuon's BGM is something people figure out if they know. It's that song. I hope for you enjoy UNI2 for a long time.
2012年の9月、アーケードゲームとしてUNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTHは稼働開始しました。対戦格闘ゲームはゲームセンターで稼働後、しばらくして家庭用ゲーム機に移植という流れが主流でした。そのため、UNIはBGMを作る際にゲーセンで聴く前提で制作を開始しました。ゲーセンという場所は数多くのゲームがひしめき合い、さまざまな音が重なり合います。そんな中でプレイヤーの耳までBGMと効果音を届けるのです。ゲームとしての優先順位はBGMより効果音が重要なので、まずは効果音を目立たせ、その効果音の隙間から聞こえるBGMをいかにプレイヤーに印象付けられるかを考えます。ゲーセンは一期一会。初めて遊んでくれた人の記憶に少しでも残るように。
そんな初代UNIの音楽制作から随分時間が経ち、UNI2の制作が始まりました。そのあいだには大きな変化がありました。特に海外人気と大規模ゲームイベントでの種目採用は、世界を見据えた音楽制作を考える必要が出てきました。嬉しい変化です。その陰で、ゲーセンの店舗数が減少の一途をたどりました。今プレイヤーの多くは家庭用から入ります。ゲーセン基準で制作していたBGMをどうするか考えました。家庭用ゲーム機でゲームを遊ぶ場合は、基本的に邪魔をする音がないのでゲーセン用よりも繊細な曲作り、音作りができます。ここで家庭用を意識した制作にシフトして良いのか？結論としては、UNI2はこれまでと同じようにゲーセン基準で制作することにしました。家庭用基準で作ったBGMをゲーセン版にもってくると不具合が多いけど、その逆にゲーセン版BGMを家庭用にもってきても特に問題はないからです。新キャラBGMと長く愛されてきた既存キャラBGMとのバランスもあります。古い考えかもしれませんが、これからもUNIシリーズがゲーセンで遊んでいただけることを願って。既存のキャラクターBGMはリアレンジ、新規、または追加レコーディングすることにしました。一番の大きな変更は、曲の長さです。これまでゲームの展開から一番盛り上がるタイミングを考慮し全体の長さを110~130秒にしてたのを、後半に新たな展開を設けて全体を180~220秒程度に延ばしました。その方が、一試合中にループするより曲のピークが二度来る可能性が高いからです。
全体の楽曲の方向性は、今までプレイしてくれた方にも違和感がないように大きく変えていません。UNIはステージではなくキャラクターのテーマとしてBGMがついているので、その結びつきが強いです。新作としての新しさを出したいとはいえ、大きく変えてしまうのはそのキャラクターイメージとの結びつきを壊してしまう可能性もあります。このバランス調整は難しかったです。そして、今回のサントラCD収録にあたっては、長くなってしまった曲をさらに2ループで収録してしまうとCDには曲数が多く入らないため、今回キャラクターBGMはループではなくエンディングを設けてきっちり終わらせる構成にしました。その都合上、ゲーム内の音源と違うトラック構成になるので、聴き比べても面白いかなと思います。そして新キャラクターのBGM。こちらも基本的にこれまでのUNIの方法論に則り制作しました。UNI2ではヒルダがボスではなくなったので、フレーズを引用しつつ新規に書き下ろしています。クオンのBGMは分かる人には分かる、あの曲です。UNI2も末永く楽しんでいただけたら幸いです。