Streets of Rage 4 - One Year Later ... Does it Hold Up? (Review) 

When it comes to full-stage combos, there are only a few spots where they're not possible, and the devs asked for feedback on how to change these in the official Discord, though they didn't say whether or not they could change that stuff in the patch coming with the DLC. Fingers crossed.

I haven't read other peoples' opinions, but I like SoR4's length. It was a quarter of a century since SoR3, so I want SoR4 to not be over too soon. Arcade games and 90s anti-rental console games had to be short enough to finish in one sitting, but today's console and PC games don't have to be. SoR4's save files and level select are good things! SoR4 has various challenge modes to give you something short and tough.

(Stage 2 with Blaze 4 and Axel 4 for the lvl extension) after you beat all cops, you need to get on the right of the box with the pipe inside. Break it, Pick it up the pipe. From that spot where the pipe was. Forward Jump. On the hight of the 2nd jump throw the pipe. On the hight of the 3rd jump catch the pipe by holding the grab button. Get the money. Then walk down where the opening of the prison bars and throw the pipe to hit the garage can with the apple in it. Then you can hit the remaining garage to keep the combo going. (My full lvl 2 combo with axel 4 has the game play showing what it looks like. )

Cheers on a review that is actually helpful. I like how you give your detailed opinion on what you like and don't. I don't know how others think, but that's why I watch your videos regardless of the genre. Keep up the good work!

i just gave marvin gaye's records a first real listening a couple of days ago, and twenty minutes ago while making breakfast i was singing-humming the song what's going on, then i watched this video. so good, i love it. great content btw :)

How I wished more of these updated retro games were given the visual treatment SoR4 has gotten. The updated designs are gorgeous. I particularly love the lighting. Never seen a 2d game where the characters felt so well integrated into the environments. Heck, the art team somehow even managed to add convincing rim lighting. Having the best 2d animations since Garou also helps of course. Man, when I heard about the new Turtles game from the same publisher I was really hoping it looked more like SoR. Bummer. I mean I like pixel art. But I'm also a little tired of it at this point.

Started playing this and Fight N' Rage, great fun although I need to get a lot better

I cant wait for the dlc to drop tbh, also what do you think of knights of the round?

Art Gallery is one of my favorite stages, you take back what you said. It's also one of the shortest stages with 7 being the shortest. Delete stage 10 instead.

You should do a video on how the updates have changed the game, lot of stage changes with this and Gungrave Gore as well.

D&D Shadow Over Mystara is still the best beat em up in my opinion.

That feeling where you mention a franchise is "popular, but not like crazy iconic" is such a mood!

Have you played The Takeover? I had a lot of fun with that game. It's heavily influenced by SoR, but it has it's own pretty unique style, plus you have a gun. And there's an Afterburner-style level. I highly recommend you give it a shot!

Adam's Green Dragon Kick is such a sweet graphic

Amen on the release date! Good review.

Hello Mark. Bought this bad boy this week, really enjoying. Where can I find your 1cc commentary?

The dlc trailer really makes me want to jump back into this game. We had a blast. It was pretty funny realising you can turn off friendly fire right at the end of the game 🤣. Cherry is my favourite character.

ik it has been a few years but: PC and Steam Deck + other PC handheld devices: allow us to introduce ourselves

All they need to do is add dashing/running for all the characters like they did in the Streets of Rage Remake.

Good luck with your Shiva runs. He is not an easy character to get through Mania with :)

Still holds up in 2024!!

Wonder if the Art Gallery stage could be modded out.

I was with you all the way until you blatantly disrespected the Art Gallery. Nah, I strongly disagree with you about the Art Gallery stage. I believe it's fine as is. It clearly has the best soundtrack of all the stages. I think it fits the storyline well for a smooth transition. It's call an Art Gallery for a reason.

I thought thats iori. Amazing. Should have his typical moveset.

I liked it more when the AI was harder and unfair. 😅 But the new characters made it worth it.

Even though I don't like the route that they went but I'm not going to judge until the DLC comes out cuz in my honest opinion SOR4 skate max dr. zan and roo should have been DLC having Shiva be the boss for the DLC trying to bring back mr. X because his kids failed I think that would have been a better route but it's just my opinion the DLC can still be a success and I hope it does so we can get a SOR5 in the future

It absolutely holds up. Reminding everyone that Streets of Rage is still the king of beat em ups.

Was it just me or SOR 3 was super hard even in normal

Lol DOTEMU doesn't care. they will drop the dlc when they are done with it. When they do you will love it, the end

Too bad nobody has made a detailed video guide how to go through the files and apply the mods

I definitely enjoyed SoR4, but after playing Fight N' Rage, I can't help but feel like its mobility/defensive options are just sort of lacking in comparison. It's an issue of design preference for sure, but I think something like FNR is more my speed.

yes.

LMAO AT REMOVE STAGE WITH BEST MUSIC.

Here's where I stand on SR4 - I love beat em ups but hate it when my beat em ups incorporate fighting games elements because I dislike the fighting games genre, I don't like memorizing combos, pulling combos off and all that stuff. - I have been replaying SoR1, 2 and 3 over and over for years and that hasn't changed in the past year, SoR4 maybe I played it like twice after I initially finished it, it's just not as relaxing to me, it's longer, requires ever so slightly more focus and the fact that you talk about balancing and stuff? Dude..I have SoR1, 2 and 3 original, I pop the cart in my mega drive and PLAY I don't pay attention to balancing or executing moves or any of that junk, I just play through my beat em ups like normal. So while I do think SoR4 is a great game, it's not a pick up and play enough for me to...just randomly casually pick it up and play it. Same goes for Fight 'n Rage. This generation, the single best beat em up is Slaps and Beans, now THAT I keep replaying and loving every second of, I didn't even know about the actors whose movies it's based on, I own the physical version on Switch (I also have SoR4 physical of course) and love it to pieces.

Lmao throwing shade at R-Type graphics

This game is crack and I didn’t see it before. I own it on everything possible.

Yo

Iori omg

Two years later and the game still cheats so yeah, it definitely still "holds up," holds up to its original cheapness.

This game is very short compared to river city girls

I found SOR4 to be massively disappointing due to the hit/hurt boxes or enemy spacing. For some reason you can’t downair to back grab in the same way or really lock in your attacks. I was basically devastated by this and still can’t describe what it is that makes it so much worse to me. I absolutely despise the purposely bad American anime art (like Netflix’s Castlevania) too, and the music I found mostly bad. I’m about to play it again to try out Max but not too hopeful. To me Fight’N Rage is king followed by SOR2 and 3. Thanks for the great videos!

I personally don't enjoy this game at all. I can also beat it with any character in Mania (now Mania+) but I find it more annoying than fun. I feel like they played it too safe when it comes to the AI and enemy design, the AI and attack patterns are too basic and similar to the old games to the point where they're only challenging when the screen is full of enemies but pretty easy by themselves. I don't know, for all the praise the game gets for supposedly having a lot of depth, it ends up being extremely mindless to me. The graphics are a mix bag, I personally don't like them but also don't care enough to stop me from playing, but the gameplay to me is still too basic. I'm still waiting for a developer to try something truly new with this genre.

It has come to my attention that you have slandered my favorite stage, ze art gallery. In response, I ask you to comprehend the fact that I am going to make the statement of removing you from all social media platforms, otherwise known as the activism of cancelle culture. (This is joke, chill out with the politics.)

The most over rated beat em up in recent memory

It's still the worst game in the series. SoR remake is the REAL Streets of Rage sequel.

How can it hold up when it was nothing more than an insult to the franchise in the first place? It can't. You want more SoR past 3, SoR that's done PROPERLY by people that actually understand the series and how it plays, play the SoR Remake instead. 4's enemy design is trash (the new designs), the level design is worse (all the decent new level designs were just ripped off from the SoR Remake), the OST was disappointing and the overall art style is just ugly, there's really no other way to say it, it's amateurish looking and ugly.

Its so slow and clunky. Would be good with a parry or dodge. Game will only be good for people with nostalga glasses