Double Dragon: Neon
A fun, absurdist beat ‘em up with some glaringly rough edges. Neon is one of the better beat ‘em ups out there, peppered with jokes lampooning its own franchise as well as the ’80s in general, counterbalanced by some irritatingly sloppy pieces. Namely all its cutscenes, ending, and 8 company logos being unskippable. Since so much of the humor is based on novelty, there are a lot of diminishing returns that just aren’t designed for these drawn out, repeat viewings… which the game is centered around with a stat-grinding system.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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I’ve read and heard many criticisms about this game and do not quite understand them. I will try and address them and give my opinion as to why this is probably one of the top three Double Dragon games.
**Graphics:
Solid art design, although some of the enemies are a bit more cartoony than previous DD designs, the colors, backgrounds, animations and effects are pretty solid. The game mixes 3D models with the occasional 2D background object, The alley level is particularly nice. Varied environments and enemies with vibrant colors.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
Streets of Rage 2
Best beat ‘em up ever!
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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Play This Game With a Controller is a Unique Pleasure!
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action!
A couple years back I was playing one of my favourite games: Street Fighter, with my friends, and I had a vision.
I saw a group of us playing a game with lots of colourful flashes, nice fast chip-tune style music, and even faster gameplay. We were all having tonnes of fun, and were really focused on the game, it looked awesome.
The image of the game was not apparent, all I saw was rainbows, and so I had no idea as to what this mystery game may be.
I searched and searched for a long time and found nothing.
– Real player with 41.3 hrs in game
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I playtested this, bought it on Humble Store, and now am playing and loving Aces Wild on Steam. Since its Humble Store release I’ve spent dozens and dozens of hours playing, and my time with this game is far from over.
The controls are easy to pickup but are incredibly precise. You can do crazy combos and fly around the screen with your aerial-powered fighter using a minimal amount of buttons.
The game is challenging but fair. Cliche statement, yes, but true in the case of Aces Wild. Nothing that the game throws at you is outside is unbeatable if you’ve got the skill.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage is a 2 player beat-em-up game for Sega Genesis that was released in 1991 as a response to Capcom’s Final Fight and it’s SNES port, following the same formula of core gameplay: grappling and such. Final Fight on SNES was 1 player only, so it wasn’t hard to be cool despite having smaller less impressive sprites. SoR is known as Bare Knuckle in Japan and it was developed by Sega AM7 team in Sega of Japan. At least it’s probably same people who made Revenge of Shinobi, since it reuses some sounds from there. Released on 4 Megabit ROM, quite standard for it’s time.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Yakuza 0
Hello friends,
Today i will review the game Yakuza 0. This is the first in the series of yakuza games, but not the first one made for the series. This is basically the game that lets you understand the rest of the series. Note: If any of this info is wrong, please tell me in the comments in my review and ill change it immedietly..thank you. Anyways, this game follows two characters that are part of the yakuza, or trying to join the yakuza. Withought spoiling too much, the game follows the two characters thru many adventures in the game. Also, there is alot of side content. The time associated with my playing is because of the side stuff. You might just like the side stuff in the game and ignore the main story for awhile. It is quite addictive to just do the side things and ignore the main story. Anyways, some of the side stuff is actually pretty hard too. So here is my pro/con list:
– Real player with 264.8 hrs in game
I’ve had so much fun with this one.
Way too many unforgettable moments and characters.
The side quests and mini games are so entertaining that sometimes I stop for a while and remember I’ve got a main story to complete. Even still, the main story is sensational.
You get to also play as two of the most chad protagonists in gaming history, why wouldn’t you wanna do that?
9/10
– Real player with 177.0 hrs in game
99Vidas
tl;dr: It is ok-ish but Steam has better and cheaper Beat’em up.
Buy only if you love the podcast and you are familiar with Brazilian culture. Or you are going to be missing a lot of the context.
Pros:
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4 players (local/coop)
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Enemies behavior are quite nice
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Nice maps
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Nice idea of mechanics
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Nice combos
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They managed to do a lot for the game compared on what my friend told em they spend on it.
Cons:
- It gets repetitive pretty fast. Including the Enemies behavior that I liked during my first play.
– Real player with 38.6 hrs in game
How to not make your sh!tty game:
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Don’t make enemies have invincible attacks that can connect any time, even when you are mashing the button as fast as you can to avoid being hit.
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Don’t let enemies chain-attack you, one after another so you lose almost your entire health bar in 3 seconds.
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Don’t give every single f#$king enemy a running attack that they spam at you from the other side of the screen, and even offscreen.
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Don’t make bosses like if they were stupid minigames where you can only attack every 30 seconds or so, after all the programmed attacks he does are spammed first.
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
River City Girls
TL;DR if you don’t want my extensive review;
+Presentation is gorgeous
+Gameplay feels right and responsive
+Combos are fun to explore and execute (speaking of non light-spam combos)
+Several playtroughs feel rewarding and I enjoyed beating the game 100%
-Entering an area, light attacks, and picking up an item are all mapped to X. Will be awkward to get used to at first, but didn’t feel clunky for me after a while
-Game’s story is rather short (this does make repeated playtroughs more bearable and fast-paced however, so it’s usually a minus sometimes a plus)
– Real player with 22.9 hrs in game
No one kidnaps our boyfriends!
The beat ‘em up genre is one genre that I barely stick my hand into. I guess none of them really caught my eye lately and I never was interested in them as a kid (well except the Scott Pilgrim game, but I was late on that front) nor were any of my old friends. I do vaguely remember playing one in an arcade, but that’s it. I never really thought about beat ‘em ups unless someone else brought them up. However, once I saw the trailer of River City Girls it immediately caught my eye. Despite (obviously) not ever playing a River City title before, I just had to play River City Girls.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
Fight’N Rage
Good game overall, takes a lot of things from classics maybe to the point where it starts hurting the game own identity.
Gameplay is a mix of classic beat-em-up with a few mechanics from fighting games, most enemies are archetypes you will recognize if you’ve played SoR1-3 and Final Fight, also features branching levels.
Has a fairly spiky difficulty curve (some level branches in particular are much harder) and has a really high difficulty ceiling (less so than say SoR2 but not by much), lower difficulties accessible enough for most to have some fun (especially easy mode which is almost insultingly easy), difficulty curve turns to a cliff once you start looking past hard mode which means most won’t ever see the last two difficulty levels.
– Real player with 159.4 hrs in game
Being a child of the 80’s and 90’s, there was no shortage of beat em‘ up games. Titles such as Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Double Dragon were all the rage and kept you entertained for hours on end. Sadly, the current gaming landscape is nearly devoid of games such as these. Outside of a few gems that are still years old, beat em’ ups are pretty much dead. Thankfully, Indie developers don’t know this and are still cranking them out. This is where Fight’N Rage comes in!
I only recently heard about Fight’N Rage, and that was only due to me looking at another game – which I won’t mention. Instead, I began to see comments about a little-known game in development. One that had quite the following. My interest piqued, I started to search for the game and found little information. Buried beneath dead websites and Reddit posts, I found the name of the developer and the title – Fight’N Rage. A game that inspired by countless Beat ’em up titles from the past and puts a spin on it. There are references to those games littered everywhere as well.
– Real player with 57.8 hrs in game
FukTopia
A surprisingly fun Beat Em Up with good mechanics and fluid controls.
It is a Beat Em Up romp we’ve come to expect from a game of it’s style with attractive artwork, catchy music, and fun gameplay. It is a great way to spend time.
+Each Character is very unique
+Challenging gameplay
+Amazing design and visuals
+Couch coop
+Awesome soundtrack
You’ll definitely have some fun with it.
- Please add a woman character into the game =]
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
This game is really good. It has an undeniably amazing artstyle, the music fits the theme well, the gameplay is awesome.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Mother Russia Bleeds
tl;dr: Game has more depth than it initially seems, sound/art design is fantastic, and it actually gets support from devs
One of the most brutal, rewarding beatemups out there. And I’m not only talking about the aesthetic, which is brutally beautiful in its own right.
First, to get it out of the way: Mother Russia Bleeds is not a particularly well-balanced game. It’s a hard game on its normal difficulty, sometimes approaching the point of cheapness with the amount of enemies they can throw at you. This is especially hard when you’re playing by yourself - the game can often turn into a game of managing space so you don’t get annihilated - but this issue is mostly alleviated if you have a co-op partner. If you’re new or casual to beatemups, go for Easy for your first run.
– Real player with 33.3 hrs in game
Mother Russia Bleeds is a new age classic that suffers from some bad game balancing mechanics and, as it stands currently, some bugs that can ruin the game play experience.
Story
Not going to lie, they actually went all out with this. It’s a pretty deep story considering this is a simple beat ‘em up game. There is some fairly rich dialog during and between the stages that set up a lot of the story and tap in to your emotions so you care more about the journey / characters lives. The bosses usually all have some kind of “Bad guy monolog” so that it fires you up to just want to kill them before the fight begins which I thought was a really nice touch.
– Real player with 29.8 hrs in game