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Of course, good visuals and music are nothing without the gameplay to back it up, and SoR4 delivers on that quite well. Equally excellent is the soundtrack, a techno/dance-inspired collection of hot beats from Eastern and Western game music composers, including veteran Streets of Rage alumni Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima. The stages are fairly typical beat-'em-up settings-a dive bar, some sewers, back alleys, Chinatown-but the animations of crowds, steam, critters, and machines make these archetypal stages feel fresh and exciting. While the clean, sharp lines of the new art are very different from the low-res, gritty pixel look fans have come to love, the HD hand-drawn characters and backgrounds look spectacular, and are packed with fun details and little Easter eggs that'll take you by surprise. The 12 stages in Streets of Rage 4 offer a lot of variety in scenery, obstacles, and enemies. but don't expect much from the plot, as it exists simply to take you to new and exciting locales where you pound a rogue's gallery of enemies into the pavement.Īnd there is a good amount of pavement-pounding to be had.

As the story unfolds, you meet characters old and new, sometimes in surprising places. Joining them are two new fighters: Cherry, a hard-rockin' young woman with deft moves and (literal) killer guitar riffs, and Floyd, a cybernetically-enhanced hulk who might not have speed or high jumps, but definitely has a myriad of ways to get his giant metal fists up in somebody's business.

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Taking place a decade after the third game (which released 26 years ago), Streets of Rage 4 reunites Axel and Blaze to unmask an evil plot devised by the children of series uber-antagonist Mr. Fortunately for longtime Sega and beat-'em-up fans, Streets of Rage 4 adeptly walks the tightrope of classic and modern appeal while busting some heads in the process. Not only do you have to please the old fans-who see their longtime favorites through rose-tinted nostalgia goggles-but you also have to find a way to make the game appealing to a newer audience. He’s been left out of the crew’s adventures for long enough, but I think they could fully even it out by at least giving us some of Adam’s perspective.Everybody has a favorite old game series that they'd like to see make a comeback, but modernizing a long-dormant franchise requires a deft touch. I think this could both expand the Streets of Rage universe, and re-establish the fact that Adam is one of the main three characters of the franchise. I really like the idea of Adam having his own cast-not just of allies, but personal antagonists as well. And of course, you can use the opportunity to flesh out the cast a whole lot more with original characters. And for the second “Adam game”-during SoR4-you could have Estel join his supporting cast sometime after she comes to her senses regarding her misplaced support of the Y-Twins.

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You could even draw inspiration from the Streets of Rage 3: Adam’s Story mod from Remake and have Max as a part of his supporting cast for his POV of the third game. And I know that Remake exists, and I’m super thankful that it let Adam join Axel and Blaze in the fighting, but that sadly only half-counts due to the game not being canon or official in the series.īut even this leaves some potential-Adam could get two “gaiden” games, both with him as the main character and seeing what the events of 3 and 4 were like from his perspective. He literally only dives in to knock back the cops surrounding our heroes, hugs his daughter, disappears for the whole rest of the game and doesn’t show up again until after the climax has been resolved. Adam finally got his playable status restored in the main series, but he was only used as a deus ex machina in the story.

Hell even in a (admittedly obscure) mobile remake of the first game, Adam was relegated to a tutorial guide rather than a playable character. Forced to be the damsel in distress in 2, unplayable in 3 despite investigating the nuclear bomb fiasco just like the other characters, and he wasn’t featured in the 90’s British comic adaptation of the series. Barring the very first game in the series, the dude keeps getting done dirty to some extent. Not only does it make the most sense, but he just deserves it, honestly. I think Adam is easily the best fit for this, out of all of the cast members. I gave my two cents, but upon some more consideration, I realized something: the fifth (and sixth) games in the series could be a spin off duology. Recently just saw a post discussing a potential Streets of Rage 5, and what it would ideally contain.

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