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STREETS OF RAGE
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Blaze always looking good, but I was kinda hoping they'd give her a mature MILF sort of design ala The Boss. After all, the game is canonically many years after 3...
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I played the ever loving SHIT out of that on Genesis and never had seen the arcade in person so I was really happy when I got Retroarch and my romset came with it. Very good game!!
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Denjin Makai 2. Everybody sleeps on that game but I'd put it on par with Battle Circuit. Banpresto knew how to make a good brawler.
You left out Warriors of Fate and King of Dragons. A re-release of Battle Circuit would be dynamite, but we all know Capcom wouldn't waste money on things not Street Fighter.
Denjin Makai 2. Everybody sleeps on that game but I'd put it on par with Battle Circuit. Banpresto knew how to make a good brawler.
Nice to see Night Slashers getting some recognition. It's pretty good, but it's one of those games that would definitely benefit from a remake. Though there is the OpenBoR version, Night Slashers X.
You left out Warriors of Fate and King of Dragons. A re-release of Battle Circuit would be dynamite, but we all know Capcom wouldn't waste money on things not Street Fighter.
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Streets of Fury gets boring pretty quickly, but playing as Nostalgia Critic just gives me pure autistic joy.
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I've always had a soft spot for the SNES version of The Ninja Warriors and the remake that came out on Switch a few years back. It doesn't use the z-axis, which I love because I'm trash at lining up my attacks properly, and its super attack mechanic was at least something other than "burn health": your screen-wipe attack slowly charges over time, but if you get knocked down while it's not full, it empties out. You have attacks that can use a portion of the bar if you're willing to play a little risky for more damage, and in the remake you can use them without the bar needing to fill up the whole way.
Also, the remake put in two new characters. One of them is, by all rights, a boss character, and it's fucking amazing:
The soundtrack isn't anything super special, but I'm fond of a good bit of it and still get it stuck in my head every so often.
Also, the remake put in two new characters. One of them is, by all rights, a boss character, and it's fucking amazing:
The soundtrack isn't anything super special, but I'm fond of a good bit of it and still get it stuck in my head every so often.
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Raiden, FUCK YEA. Man he's so cathartic to play with.
Except for that last stage. Then it becomes a straight hell on earth...
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Both Cyberbots and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs were my beat 'em up kino back in the day.
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That looks awesome...never saw that before! Really cool.
As a quick addition and thought after playing some Streets of Rage 4 this morning I think I would enjoy it a lot more if all the characters could dash. At first I thought nobody could dash but apparently some of the unlockable characters can? I dunno I always play Blaze, and she can't dash! I think actually none of the base characters can dash. Why on earth they did not think SOR fans would wanna be able to dash when it is one of the more fun mechanics of a beat-em-up I will never know...the game would be so much more enjoyable if it was just a little more fast paced.
My biggest gripe with that aspect of it is this: Hotline Miami came out a full EIGHT YEARS before SOR4. What was it that made that game so addictive? The fast-paced nature and the fact that the music pushed you along the stage. The guys who did SOR4 could have easily done this exact thing. Why do I mention HL Miami? Well, a lot of the music in SOR4 gets bumpin in some places and makes you WANT to push along and keep tempo and just get into that groove...but with how slow the combat is it won't let you. Making this even worse, a lot of the enemies have turtle-ish defensive abilities/attributes too that just completely put the brakes on for you. I see this as a missed opportunity, myself. Such an easy tweak might have turned the game from a cool and kinda fun nostalgic affair into something I was drawn back to time and time again. Mother Russia Bleeds did just that several years before SOR4 and it is certainly addictive once you master its strange mechanics.
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I had more trouble getting to the last stage with Raiden than beating the boss. Not that it's a cakewalk or anything, but if you get it just right you can get two hits in with his throw and shave a lot more of the boss's health that way. Jubei still whips my ass six ways from Sunday no matter who I'm playing. That's the price for having cool boss music, I guess.
Yaksha is harder for me overall, since she's a technical character and I'm just bad at that. I think it took me longer to beat the last boss with her than with Raiden due to messing up the positioning of her throws constantly.
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IIRC, SoR2 Skate, the SoR3 cast, Cherry, Shiva and SoR2&4 Max (technically) can dash, so anybody who could before still can. As to why others can't, it's because they couldn't in the previous installments. Yes, that's dumb, but it's also likely the reason. Oh, and to preserve the feel of the previous games.
I'm just happy that Axel got buffed, that guy needed some love.
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That makes sense...I remember being able to dash with everyone in SOR3 but I thought you could for sure in the other games too...maybe my new memories of SORR are corrupting my old ones. Dashing is something I really just need to have for my own personal tastes in a beat em up.
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Playing Sifu while listening to the Streets of Rage 2 OST has been scratching the itch.
Sifu's actually pretty fucking fun. When a bunch of damn Frenchmen make a Chinese kung fu game.
Sifu's actually pretty fucking fun. When a bunch of damn Frenchmen make a Chinese kung fu game.
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Batman Returns for the SNES is one of my favorite brawlers. The graphics are beautiful, and the Konami remixes of Elfman tunes were great. I was such a little weirdo, I'd just sit and listen to the jukebox mode when I was a kid. What was really great were the stage interactions though. You could toss enemies through fences, windows, street signs and benches, among other things.
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SoR 2 is the best game on the Genesis/MD. The gameplay, music, and graphics were super well done and I can just pick it up every few months.
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A beat'em'up I never see mentioned(and I haven't actually played it) is Slaps and Beans, the Terrence Hill/Bud Spencer game that came out a couple of years ago. What a weird thing to make. It's got a "very positive" rating on Steam and it looks like a sequel is coming out and being a fan of the Hill/Spencer movies it looks interesting.
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This is the first time I've heard of it, and I think my brain blew a fuse trying to process what the hell is even going on.
Is that motherfucking Danny DeVito in a wrestling leotard up in that first screenshot?
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I like the Ninja Warriors remake and Fight 'n' Rage better than SoR4 tbqh.
Fight 'n' Rage really has everything. Anybody miffed that SoR4 won't let them vertical dash or run or whatever should try Fight 'n' Rage. The dev obviously loves the genre and apparently tried to throw in every mechanic he ever liked from any game he ever played, down to SNK short hops and Third Strike parries.