The animation for both attacks and the foes reacting to being attacked are all great too, and some effects like smoke and neon lights are impressive.
STREET OF RAGE 2 FULL
The graphics are full of nice and detailed sprite work, and colourful and often animated backgrounds. Now if baseball were like this I’d be a regular viewer! Add in a guy with a jetpack (called “Jet”, imaginatively), a Blanka-like boss with claws and some robots, you’ve got a varied cast of bosses and sub-bosses, if nothing else! SoRII also had some odd one-offs, mostly the weird “alien head” sub-boss in the ghost house that makes impossible to describe sounds whenever you hit it. It’s probably safe to say that this was the game I used as a measuring stick for clichés, though given all of the clichés have already appeared before this game shows I’m not saying that Streets of Rage II invented them, more that this is where they all converged, and given the game’s popularity, they continued to appear long afterwards… Scantily clad whip women, overweight fire-breathing guys, lift stages, conveyer belt stages, ninjas, a wrestler boss, a playable wrestle character, the works.
It keeps you on your toes, that’s for sure.Īs for scrolling beat ‘em up clichés? It has pretty much all of them. Great level design also sees you fight through Arcades, baseball stadiums, funfair ghost houses, fake pirate ships and many more. You can pick up extra lives and health restoring items, as well as weapons, like knifes and pipes, all of which can be tossed as enemies, which is always satisfying.
STREET OF RAGE 2 PLUS
The combat is varied enough that you never feel bored, plus its buttery smooth and full of impact. You can also do a back strike as well, if you see a foe creeping up behind you, and jump off enemies and allies alike to propel yourself at on-coming foes. You can also walk into enemies to grapple them and do a grapple combo or throw them across the screen (or snap their neck and/or atomic drop them as Max…), you can jumping strike and double tap forward and punch to do a non-health-draining special attack. Scroll to the right, or down the screen in some cases (*GASP!*) and one button does a combo, one button jumps, and one does a special attack that drains some health, with a single button press doing a move that damages foes around you and pressing the button with a direction doing another move that attacks in the direction you press. It’s the weird alien level with the spinning-head mid-boss! Memorable, for one reason or another… It has rightfully been praised as possibly THE standout of its genre, and frankly deserves its place as one of the all-time great Mega Drive games. It was ported to the Game Gear in July 93, and has appeared in 1001 compilations, both physical and digital, over the years. Streets of Rage 2 (or II as its stylised on the PAL boxart) was released in December 1992 in the US, and January 1993 in Japan and Europe. Want to hear me gushing about the game more? Read on!Īxel jumps for joy at the sight of a pool table while Max takes care of the grunts. If I were to make a “Top X favourite games of all time” list, this would easily be in the top 5, if not near the very top (I have no idea what would be at the top, that would require a lot of thought…) The gameplay, the graphics, the music, the look… everything about this game was amazing to me back when it came out, and it’s still every bit as good in 2020. The second part of this post was an interview with Ayano Koshiro herself, translated by shmuplations here.So, here we go. Streets of Rage 2 developer Ancient shared the complete set of design documents here to promote the 2015 re-release on Nintendo 3DS. Japanese developers would traditionally consider the startup flow all the way to title screen and character select in initial planning documents.
Most of the enemy pixel art was outsourced but due to quality issues had to eventually be redrawn by Koshiro herself.Ĭonsisting mostly of still images and scrolling, these pages detail the screen flow on starting up the game. AxelĪ variety moves to be performed by the non-standard and boss enemies in the game. The team were playing a lot of Street Fighter II at the time so incorporated a much wider array of moves via combinations of button holds and presses than contemporaries like Final Fight. The complete suite of moves available to the four protagonists. Sprites were comprised of 8×8 pixel blocks. General guidelines for character and user interface (UI) layout and dimensions. What follows is a gallery of her designs, including complete move-lists and original character/animation-related design documents for Streets of Rage 2. While her composer brother Yuzo is most often linked to the creation of Sega’s seminal side-scrolling beat-em-up Streets of Rage 2 (1992), the game was primarily designed and art-directed by his sister Ayano Koshiro at the young age of 22.
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