The new combat is absolutely as addictive as ever. That’s where Streets of Rage 4 really comes to life. The soundtrack listens like a spruced up version of the ’90s club-inspired beats from original composers Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima the 2020 musical charge was led by Olivier Derivière, though the two legendary composers apparently had quite a hand in the sequel’s sound.īut the glowing part of this title, as it should be, is the combat-hell, it is a beat ’em up. The art style is gorgeous, and the sprite movements and animations hit that balance to make you feel like you’re back in a Genesis-era game, while playing so cleanly as to bring new life into the series. Streets of Rage 4 is a golden homage to what made beat ’em ups great, while still taking its own twists. These folks are doing work recreating titles from a golden age of gaming, but none thus far have been as widespread and well known as Streets of Rage. Dotemu in particular has now made sequels to some pretty obscure, cult-classic retro titles, including a remake of the 1994 NeoGeo game Windjammers (with a sequel planned for Switch later this year), and a continuation of the 1986 Sega arcade classic Wonder Boy, with Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap.
The sequel comes from Dotemu, Lizard Cube, and Guard Crush Games, three indie studios that anyone with a place in their heart for retro video games should keep their eye on.
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It has been 26 years since the release of Streets of Rage 3 on the Sega Genesis, and finally we get to revisit Axel, Blaze, and the other ‘8os sci-fi movie punk heroes tasked with cleaning up the crime-ridden streets (yes, the ones full of rage) of Wood Oak City. But the EDM-backed king of beat ’em ups, Streets of Rage, is making a grand return Thursday with Streets of Rage 4, and our hope for the genre returns with it. No more Altered Beast, Gauntlet, Turtles in Time, or Golden Axe, and even when we did get a shot at a new Double Dragon in 2017, it fell flat. What happened to the days of button-mashing and hack-and-slashing your way through goblins, gang members, foot soldiers, robots, and whatever odd creature you wanted to punch the hell out of? Side-scrolling beat ’em ups were all the rage in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and besides ports, an occasional remaster, and a rare indie ode to the genre, nearly all of its breed have died out.
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