Streets of Rage 4

Game is awesome! Topped the first SOR for me.

I've been mainly Axel for the whole game, but at some point I'll start using Adam more. I like Axel's basic approach that stresses spacing and crowd control. His headbutt and charge kick give the CHONKY goodness in crowd control. Playing on Mania is a blast but using the whole tool kit is a must. Once I started using defensive moves, it made things a lot more manageable in this mode, lol. I'll still maintain they aren't necessary but they do help regardless.

I've read complaints about mobility and "limited tool set", especially Axel's but he I don't see it. He makes up for it with strong normals.

The complaints seem to come from SOR2 players, and people's first experiences being from that, since it the one most recommended seemed to stress more gimmicks than anything, and I think that's where the complaints are coming from?

I can't put it down, and I just came off the recent Sega beat'em ups and didn't realize I need more beat'em ups after this. It provides the right amount of feedback with the right amount of challenge.


Characters: I like Axel, SOR 1 Blaze, Adam and Flynn or my favorites. Looking forward to Shiva and Zan.

The rest are "No thanks", but I'm sure I'll come around to them at some point.

 

Double Dragon had a sequel. It was Double Dragon: Neon. Wouldn't mind seeing a new Final Fight, as long as it doesn't like SFIV or SFV.

 

The complaints are mainly about mobility and the A.I. being more about memorizing than just going out on a all out assault. It's a Good game. Has its faults but overall it's a good game. Thank God it was released on game pass.

 

gamepass version is god aweful though. i legit didnt like the game until playing switch version


also people know mania is designed to be unfair right? they tell you in the description.

 

Since I jumped back and forth between Normal and Mania, I've noticed the enemies are faster and A LOT more aggressive, but I've been mostly able to use old standby's like using enemies for I-frames, crowd control moves and still do well. I can't get laxed which is what's supposed to happen, as opposed to Normal. Axel's jumps have I-frames as well, bt have to be timed right ala DMC.

Going in guns-a-blazin' will always get you killed in this genre, and this doesn't feel any different in that regard. This game feels like SOR 1 just with added abilities and the wall bounce, which is probably the best feature, since it keeps everything moving without having to wait for enemies to get up and reappear on screen.

I don't think they'll change too much since I think they really wanted to play into the character archetypes, especially for multi-player.

Nothing here felt too crazy. Challenging? Absolutely. Not on the level of Yakuza/Yakuza spin-offs like THE WALL hits you and seem damn near impossible before you figure it out.

 

yeah and the combo counter decays too quickly and doesn't actually give you the proper amount of points. Combos drop on enemies that work on the newest version. I don't know why they did this for the gamerpass. I mean different teams did ports for each system and the gamepass one just totally dropped the ball.

 

only for the windows store version. the steam version is fine.

 

Wow! I didn't know that.

 

The team has been waiting for the go ahead to release the patch on Game Pass, but no dice. It's been a patch behind since release. I was reading about it at another forum. I have it on Switch so I just lol'ed.

Game is so good! This'll probably be in my Top 3 for 2020 games.

 

Don’t matter which version was released. Game is decent. Shit ain’t great and I’m not in the business of hypebeasting. Unless the patch is updating it to SOR4: FS... I’m good

 

I just bought the game 2 days ago and played it through twice on normal. I really like it so far. At first it felt weird that defensive special isn't the get out of jail free card it used to be but on the other hand it has invincible frames, you just have to plan more when to use it and enemies telegraph a lot. I guess it would be a bit overpowered otherwise with the new system where you get your life back by landing throws. I really like that btw.

The slow walk speed is a bit weird, I guess the devs really like Sor2 (who doesn't?), but especially with some bosses with their super armor and stuff it felt annoying to me sometimes being too far away when their window to be attacked opened and it took too long to get back in time. I have to get better at it before I know what to really think though.

 

Was that super armour thing, in the previous Streets of Rage games?
My memory is very poor here. Lol!

 

Moving up and down is how I dodge and jumps. Just like I did in SOR 1. Neutral jump has invulnerability frames too, but spacing is king. Gonna start using characters with those fancy dashes(i.e. Adam) at some point.

 

Stage 4 Mania. I hate Diamond. Can't let up once, all offensive all the time. I did learn that it's better to have Donovans hold weapon since they more start ups on attacks. Getting better at stuffing Diamonds with Axel's jump kick too.