Streets of Rage 4 landed tonight. It's also free if you're on Xbox Game Pass for PC. I played up to Stage 3 tonight.
It's fun! Would probably be even better with more than 1 player... Definitely enjoyable for people who played the originals back in the day. SoR 2 is one of my all-time favorites. This one does some new, more dynamic stuff with comboing multiple enemies, small chains of them in the air, so there is some more skill involved than just mashing the attack button. I was kinda ho-hum about the whole game until I switched from Axel to Blaze in Stage 2 (it lets you swap between stages) and realized the characters actually play dramatically differently this time. Blaze is faster, combos easier, but naturally doesn't hit as hard as Axel.
Give it a chance if you're on game pass, but I think priced at $20, it's juuuust right.
It's fun! Would probably be even better with more than 1 player... Definitely enjoyable for people who played the originals back in the day. SoR 2 is one of my all-time favorites. This one does some new, more dynamic stuff with comboing multiple enemies, small chains of them in the air, so there is some more skill involved than just mashing the attack button. I was kinda ho-hum about the whole game until I switched from Axel to Blaze in Stage 2 (it lets you swap between stages) and realized the characters actually play dramatically differently this time. Blaze is faster, combos easier, but naturally doesn't hit as hard as Axel.
Give it a chance if you're on game pass, but I think priced at $20, it's juuuust right.