Streets of Rage 4

Stumbled upon a trailer for this the other day and it looks awesome, will probably pick up a Switch physical copy soon.

Played this through last night with two friends, I was playing as Cherry. The game is excellent, and it looks and sound great. Got the final hit on the last boss when only one hit away from death myself, one friend dying only a moment before to leave me as the last player standing. Felt pretty perfect as a climactic ending!

Despite really enjoying it I think it helped cement my preference for the more rpg-lite style of beat 'em up with levels, equipment and unlockable skills like in River City Girls or Scott Pilgrim.

It's good that both forms of brawler exist because variety is always a good thing, but for me I definitely prefer the "purity" of Street is Rage over those that try to introduce more RPG mechanics which for me changes the fundamental balance of the game away from what makes SoR so satisfying

This is still holding a position quite high in my current best of 2020 list

Hope they do a new Golden Axe as well.

Wasn’t there a lot of teases on Twitter that Ubi were going to re-release the Scott Pilgrim game? Nothing has come of it yet though has it?

twitter.com/Dotemu/status/1302914158460047360

Can't read the patch notes at work as the steam store is blocked but I'm interested to see what changes they've made in terms of balancing, I didn't think it was too bad on that front

Ooh, an excuse to play even more of this GOTY

Jenuall wrote:Can't read the patch notes at work as the steam store is blocked but I'm interested to see what changes they've made in terms of balancing, I didn't think it was too bad on that front

Just for you buddy here they all are in a spoiler box

Awesome thanks, sounds like a useful set of tweaks and changes.

Like Zilnad I'm just glad of another reason to go back to this, it's such a damned good game!

I don't think I ever used any charge attacks

Had a quick blast on this last night, didn't notice too many changes specifically but there was definitely a subtly different feel to things in that intangible way that you can't quite put your finger on. Definitely think that newer players will appreciate some of the changes around making Axel faster and tweaking the way some things can/can't be interrupted.

Some of the bosses toward the end felt like more of a challenge as well, but it might be that I've just got more gooseberry fool at the game since I last played! :lol:

Replaying this just reminded that amongst all of the other great elements the soundtrack still stands out as insanely good, there are a few weaker tracks
certainly but when it gets it right it just nails the vibe perfectly! :datass:

I mean even the character select screen in this game gets an absolute banger like this which puts the best tracks in other games to shame:

There are some extended versions of the songs that are floating about, seems they just weren't included in the OST which is odd. One of the best is Chow Time:

:datass:

Good call on attempting to sort Axel out. Rubbish.

Preezy wrote:There are some extended versions of the songs that are floating about, seems they just weren't included in the OST which is odd. One of the best is Chow Time:

Oh that's another belter. :datass:

I've still got a soft spot for most of the Yuzo Koshiro contributions to the soundtrack, mainly because he does such a good job of replicating the feel of the SoR2 tracks. They're Back is like what Streets of Rage 2 sounds like in my memories!

Played they game tonight using new earphones and that soundtrack came alive. :datass:

Didn't feel massively different to play but a few of the bosses have definitely become a little trickier, although not unfair, since the tweak so that's good. Still feels incredible to play.

Playing this on Switch, great looking game but it can be tough can’t it :lol:

the second level boss ended up kicking my ass, can you not block in this?

so theres new Mr X content coming for this with 3 new characters, one is the female cop you fight in the main game but who are the other two, they show 2 shadows next to her in the trailer, im guessing ones is a new Modern version of Max but no idea about the other one

It's Max and Shiva

Dangerblade wrote:It's Max and Shiva

I thought it could be Max and Shiva because there enemies in the game so there's basically sprites for them etc, but with it showing DR Zan in one of the screens I thought maybe they'd have made a modern form for him.... I would love to see all the classics get modern forms to be fair, id also like to see Roo added. Maybe there will be more future dlc after this

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