Streets of Rage Review - Quickies Don't Cut It 

5 Years later and I'm still hyped for the Streets Of Rage 2 review!

13:55 You forgot Stage 4 also have pitfall deaths as stage hazard.

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to drop a weapon, do the back attack

Little tip: Keeping your special at the end of the level nets a bigger clear bonus.

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People say the first is a Final Fight rip off but Streets of Rage has always had it's own identity; from being able to call for back up to the ending.

that was another great and informative review. Very honest and not clouded by nostalgia. I admit, I'm the same as you in that I play it every so often and love it mostly for it's soundtrack but it's defo not withstood the test of time. The second game is the real game to play. I would love to see more honest reviews from you. Please please please do a review of Streets of Rage 2, 3, & Remake.

Great review man, I grew up with the Streets of Rage games, so I always enjoy watching videos focusing on them. You've earned yourself another subscriber !

Streets of Rage is one of my favorite Mega Drive games, alongside Revenge of Shinobi and Dragon's Fury. :) I'm loving your videos man, gonna have a marathon of them all. :) Keep up the grandiose work.

Awesome review Finaly someone made a critical look at SOR 1 wish you more subscribers

i love so much this game ost nice video as always !

Great reviews as always, I appreciate your formal dialogue with the audience along with your citations from the game. Not only that, but your informal use of profanity makes you relatable, honestly. Lol In all honesty, you are my favorite reviewer because of your inclusion and awareness of the realm of the soundscape and soundtrack of the games you review. It shows your thoroughness to provide a detailed review. Please review Kingdom Hearts! Don't care how long it will be till you get around to it. Waiting for your awesome review, I can be patient. :) Keep up the good work! Louie - a fan

my favorite beat em' up series. loved it ever since i first played part 2(best in the seies imo) at a friends house back in 1993. Tho the SOR Remake is amazing beyond belief and is my all time favorite beat em up ever...too bad its not official. you should review part 2 and 3. great review!

Great video and analysis of this game. I can understand the frustrations with the Streets of Rage. This is definitely one of those titles that can be hard to go back to once you played its sequel, but it's a solid title. It's no Final Fight.

I really liked this review, made with your usual format. It's sad that it didn't get the attention it deserves...

Great review, RZ. I played this and I liked it but I much prefer 2 and the Japanese SOR3 (known as Bare Knuckles 3)

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Great review, even for one of your older videos. Pretty much summed up my thoughts on this game exactly, it's an alright if arguably lacking first installment for a series, which left me wanting to try again for its music alone aside from respect for the original devs.

Some great one-liners my friend.

Anyways I got to say, I may be blinded by nostalgia and I do agree the first might not be the best to start out on the series, this game was my childhood. I remember every weekend, my sister would bring over her Sega Genesis and I would play the living crap out of Streets of Rage. I played it so many times that I more or less know how much health each bad guys have and I have strategized on how to beat them. Now fast forward to when I was 18 years old. I went on ebay and I got myself Streets of Rage 2. I played it and beat it. While it is better than the first Streets of Rage, I prefer the first over the second. Now this applies to only me and I don't expect anyone to follow suit. Nice job on the review. I will wait for Streets of Rage 2 whenever you get the chance to review that game

Another great review there, i'm a big fan of this series, i hope that you review the japanese Bare Knuckle 3, maybe with an english translation patch, they changed a lot of things that made the american version of SOR3 quite bad, and to think that they didn't even bothered to include the obviously superior japanese version in this collection.

Moon Beach fills me with nostalgia. Not sure if the game would be as playable these days if it wasn't for its amazing soundtrack

The first Streets of Rage was the last one I played. 2 and 3 are better, but I was surprised at the fact that some moves I thought were new in 3 originated in 1.

I never knew there was a bad ending to Streets of Rage where a player character takes over the Syndicate. I wonder what the Courier and Yes Man from Fallout: New Vegas would have to say about that.

It came out in the arcade too dude- My local arcade had a machine :)

Thanks a ton for doing this. The first SOR (or Bare Knuckle as I had played it back in the day) is still my favorite of the original three. Of course my main is Blaze as well but are you sure Adam is the strongest? I've tested on the very first enemy and it always took him an additional hit to kill him. Also, if I recall you could throw any weapon via pressing two of the buttons. But perhaps that is only for the latter games. Y. Signal stands for Yellow Signal. I would disagree with you regarding replayability because I love nighttime cityscapes combined with great music. And don't worry about the channel's popularity. Good things take time. Will you be doing the other two games? I definitely recommend checking out the fan made remake. That's the best SOR game out there.

Sega music will always have a special place in my heart.

Ever try the "Streets of Rage remake" fan game?

I come back to this video for some old news; but Streets of Rage 4 is in development. heads up, it might be actually awesome.

Adam is by far my favourite one to play as in this game, the sequels I default to Blaze but this one I go for Adam all the way. I love this series, unofficial remake included. I even quite like the was gonna be SOR4 but ended up as spiritual successor, fighting force.

this is from someone who played a ton of SOR the differences in the difficulty is Ai aggresiveness , wich is broken, most enemies are going to try to hunt your back and you are going to use a lot the back attack. but its more difficult to make wake up attacks because they tend to move away from your kicks the moment they wake up and their /fast/ mode (enemies have two speeds and in harder difs their fast mode is faster) lets them dodge you if you dont time perfectly. Enemy count. It also multiplies at two players and some stages are going to slow down a lot. Enemy life. In easy, most enemies die in one suplex. in hardest, the suplex is only going to help you with the blue galsias only. only unique to this game thatdoesnt repeat in any other, except the american SOR 3. Enemies do more damage with difficulty. A boss in easy will take a quarter of life. some boses in the hardest skills are insta kill. SOR in the hardest skill is NOT fun. Its like mania in SOR 2. Enemies are NOT as tanky , but killing them needs to either spam the back attack because they love to hunt your back, or perfectly time your grabs on wake up wich is harder than it seems, specially for red galsias. Since there are more enemies and you get easily stun locked. Axel is almost useless. Because you will need to jump a lot to prevent stunlock scenarios as much as possible. and axel kick does no good damage and worse it has piss reach. Overall... Sor was the best Console beat em up of that moment. Because it was the only good with coop. Final fight was not very good compared with the arcade but it held up... however it had no coop. Also Final fight 2 is not a good game, not atleast for a final fight. And it would be some extra years before FF3.

this game is perfect the way it is.

nice job would you consider talk about samurai shodown ?

are you going to review the other 2 games in the series??? I love this series and even though I played final fight I still this this series is better, although that might be the nostalgia and me being a genesis fanboy.

thanks for the video

4 years and still no Streets of Rage 2.....makes me sad man

Will you be doing a review on the Streets of Rage Remake that was made by Bombergames? I feel that you'll have a good sum of stuff to talk about with that game.

Have you checked out the fan project (Streets of rage remake 2011) I resonantly found it and can't believe SOR2 could be improved on

I love this game because of the atmosphere and music.

Also, I added a bit of replay value to this game by using the hacks from Streets of Rage Online Website. Stuff like rapid fire enemies, 2 bosses instead of 1 on single player mode etc, and also select the same character in 2 player mode gave me some extra fun time with the title I got most acustomed to. I also would ask people to challenge yourself to completing the game legit (no save states) using 1 hit, as in can you complete the game without getting hit?.... I've done this on both Easy and Normal difficulties but still can't do it on Hard or Hardest.

nt sure ifanyone mentioned this but Im pretty sure you can throw your weapon away with B+C. I could be thinking of Streets of Rage 2 tho so don't hold me to that lol another excellent review btw.

I will say while this game isn't perfect in the slightest I still find it pretty good but not as good as 2 or 3. It can get repetitive but that for me is not a big issue as long as it's not noticable. In this game's case I don't think it's that big of an issue. Sure, it's a bit basic but it gets the job done I say. I do admit though there could of been some elements that could of been done a lot better. The special attack for example can be easily exploited and some of the boss battles I think could of been more tweaked with in terms of the patterns and the window of time to hit them. Especially the two blaze clones. My god, they are so damn cheap I swear the only way I can beat them is to use the special attack because I don't know how to effectively kill them without dying a lot.(I definitely understand your frustration with them as they are cheap as all hell.) The music I will say is pretty good overall. It's not the best I have heard from the Genesis library (or in your region the Megadrive.) but it does a great job fitting all the stages. And yeah Blaze is my definitive character to play in this game. Though yeah great review overall.

Are you reviewing SOR 2?

You better review SoR 2, 3, and the Remake

Congrats for the video. Still, I would not edit it to a point in which the narration seems to be endless (and hypnotic) and too fast. Give silence a chance, man.

I know you may be discouraged by the lack of views here, but the 2nd game really deserves a review, it addresses literally every flaw you accurately presented here and goes far beyond making it a timeless classic. The word should be spread. I rate this game an 7.9 but SOR2 is easily a 9.7 to me. Honestly the 2nd game kind of spoiled me, I still enjoy this one but the sequel is just that much of an improvement.

zomg bare knuckle SUBBED

Hey man this game is perfect OK? Like I love the SoR series way too much, to critique it really, but good review anyway. I'm never gonna not love this game regardless of some issues. I can't wait to see your reviews for the other installments, Remake is absolutely phenomenal in my eyes.

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Being cheap in fighting games/beatemups is bad design? Bruh plz, that shit's the backbone of even the likes of games that formed genres like Street Fighter Also 2 player ups the difficulty by 1 (easy becomes normal, normal becomes hard etc)

First time I'm first commenting on a video. Awesome video as usual, by the way.

hy cool review

Do a Mario game! Also, Streets of RAAAAAGE!!!!

After you're done with the trilogy, review Streets of Rage Remake v5.1. For me and for many other players, the fan remake is actually better than the original games themselves (and possibly the best 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up game ever). The game is freeware, you can get it from here - www.soronline.net/sorr_downloads.htm

Coud you do Brawl bros ? :)

Wheres the streets of rage 2 review thou

Honestly dude, I would have described Streets of Rage as: it's fun. It's also kinda cheap both ways.

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