There are also new Star Attacks that can only be used a certain amount of times per stage but deal a lot of damage when used correctly. It’s a smart change that makes it more fair so players actually want to use it, without throwing away all of the difficulty and strategy behind it. The damaging special moves still exist, but have a new mechanic that allows you to recover the lost health by dealing damage without getting hit. There are a few key differences worth mentioning though.
Returning enemies moved around just like they did in the past, and I was able to counter them in the same way too such walking down on them from an angle to get a grapple in.
I was able to punch, jump kick, grapple in a way that felt exactly like the Genesis titles. The demo we played was extremely faithful to the original game and played great. The most important thing is of course, the combat. While I’d still prefer an art style that is reminiscent of the classics, and there are still quite a few unanswered questions, the gameplay I got to experience sold me that DotEmu knows what they are doing. It brought back memories of Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and I feared that Streets of Rage 4 would be more of that, and less of Sonic Mania which is a faithful follow-up, through and through.Īfter going hands-on with Streets of Rage 4 at PAX East though, almost all of my fears have been erased. Count me among the people who weren’t thrilled with the direction. Excitement that the game was going to exist was tempered by trepidation over an art style that looked very different than the pixelated 16-bit classics. The first impression of developer DotEmu’s Streets of Rage 4 was a bit muddled. Any time it’s re-released on a modern platform, I snatch it up.įor years, Sega gave fans little reason to believe that they would be willing to return to the IP, but after the success of Sonic Mania, Sega appears willing to allow third-party developers to have a shot to create new games for dormant, but still beloved, IPs. Growing up a Genesis kid, I played Streets of Rage 1 & 2 an ungodly number of times. I consider myself a die-hard Streets of Rage fan.
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