"Light and Shadow: Expedition No. 33" has a total of eight hours of soundtracks. "Until Next Life" sung by actor Ben Starr is particularly special - the British actor who plays Verso in the game revealed to GameSpot that the cross-border collaboration began with an absurd tequila party.
"I first met Testard in Montpellier, and I was so nervous," Starr recalled. "The soundtrack master suddenly came over and said he wanted me to sing for the game. My first reaction was to hear it wrong - I was just a short-lived actor." Composer Testard revealed that the song tailor-made for Verso's character was well written a year before the invitation: "When Game Director Guillaume proposed 'let the character dubbing actors sing in person', I immediately thought of Ben. Surprisingly, the non-professional singer performed amazingly."
The episode on the eve of the recording is even more hilarious.Starr and his partner Jennifer English were having fun at the bar and bought 20 glasses of tequila spirits out of their own pocket."I saw no one answered, so I could only fill most of it myself," he admitted with a smile. "When I entered the studio with a hangover the next day, I heard the demonstration track of professional singer Alice Duport-Percier, and my legs were trembling."
But alcohol did not affect the final effect at all.Starr's infectious interpretation injected soul into this song that runs through the plot. Testard admitted: "If it weren't for the perfect presentation, I would never let it stay in the soundtrack." Despite encountering strong competition from the remake of "The Elder Scrolls 4" at the same time, Starr firmly believes that this independent masterpiece can coexist with it: "This is not a gimmick, the singing itself is an important puzzle of narrative."