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Raging Justice: an "extremely 90s" co-op brawler from ex-Rare/KI devs for PC/PS4/XB1/Switch
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I think I'm gonna get this for my Switch. I have an old friend staying at my house for a weekend soon, and playing through this in couch co-op seems like it'd be a great time. Just two friends dealing out some good ol' fashioned street justice to hordes of pre-rendered CGI sprite thugs.
While the game itself might have its flaws from a design/presentation standpoint, it still brings a smile to my face to see this art style and 90's cheese brought into the modern era on the Switch in particular.
PS - I think that the level-specific challenges and the good cop/bad cop mechanics are smart additions to what is otherwise a simple game adhering to the straightforward standards of its side-scrolling brawler forebears.
While the game itself might have its flaws from a design/presentation standpoint, it still brings a smile to my face to see this art style and 90's cheese brought into the modern era on the Switch in particular.
PS - I think that the level-specific challenges and the good cop/bad cop mechanics are smart additions to what is otherwise a simple game adhering to the straightforward standards of its side-scrolling brawler forebears.
I like how this looks. Kinda like the Williams arcade early digitized graphics games, like Narc, but mixed with pre-rendered 90s graphics.
Please never post about beat em ups again
What is with this genre on this site? People are always like "im the worlds biggest beat em up fan - tmnt, sor2, final fight, double dragon." The genre is way bigger than those games and did actually evolve quite a bit up until they morphed in 3d action games
There are standards past how much nostalgia a particular game invokes.
I was talking about games that you complete in an hour and you have nothing else to do like 90s arcade games, imo there isn't a big public for games like that today, a game that has unlockables doesn't last 1 hour no matter what, a play can be short but to complete the game you need many hours, that's one good way to do a modern beat'em up that could get a bigger audience, Lost Castle and Rampage Knights for example are like that by mixing beat'em up and rogue-like but they aren't really good in the beat'em up department.
What are you talking about?!?!?
I have played all the beat'em ups i encountered in the arcade era and now i buy the modern ones(but ending disappointed most of the time), some examples of modern ones i have played are: Scott Pilgrim, Castle Crashers, Double Dragon Neon, Dragon's Crown, Code of Princess, Phantom Breaker, Lost Castle, Not Dying Today, Rampage Knights and others, so i can safely say i know a wide range of kinds of beat'em ups, this without counting the ones without z-axis movement that i don't consider to be in the same category.
Evolution has rules and limits, you can evolve what you want but the core of a genre should remain the same otherwise it becomes something different, suggesting to a beat'em up fan to play "character action" games for example it's like suggesting to a Metal Slug fan to play Doom, you said: "did actually evolve quite a bit up until they morphed in 3d action games", 2d action games exist too and they are different from beat'em ups, an action game is one thing, a beat'em up is another, a beat'em up fan wants a beat'em up, not an action game.
3d beat'em ups exists but usually i have never liked them, recently i liked the Warriors minigame Army of the Night, Akiba's Trip and the demo of Uppers.
We could say that Arkham City games are in part beat'em ups and i have enjoyed them a lot, but the combat wasn't my favorite part(but it wasn't that bad though)
Looks really bad... they should have gone the pixel art route. like Octopath or the last night.
What? No, neither of those looks nearly as bad as this.
(Looking bad was the point, right?)
Y'know, as someone born in the 90s, maybe we should just all agree to skip 90s nostalgia products if this is what we can expect?
Thinking about grabbing this after work but I'm afraid To go in blind lol. Hope to see impressions by the time I get home
There are a few reviews posted on YouTube. Even after watching them I'm still on the fence, however. I'm leaning toward getting it on my Switch solely to play through with a friend's who's visiting next week.
Nice I'll check those out. Also I think it launched at a discount
Switch, I'm playing it over the next day or so, I'll drop a quick impression then
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I've probably played every beat em up on MAME, SNES, Genesis etc as it's my favorite retro genre. I'll always love a beat em up game, even the shitty ones. That being said, this looks kinda interesting. I see what they're going for here and can respect that, but I prefer my beat em up's to be 2D. Weighty punches, great art, interesting backgrounds, good enemy variety, and funny looking bosses separate the good from the bad. Bonus points for a good soundtrack, branching paths and move variety.
Jesus that's a frustrating watch lol. You can tell this person has never played an old school beat 'em up because they keep using that clearing attack without realizing it's killing them.
I'm playing on the Switch and six levels in and I have to say that they captured the feel of a 90s game that would've come out during the early/mid N64's lifespan pretty well. Other than that it's a pretty typical brawler where you punch/stab/throw garbage cans at the standard enemy types (Punk Guy, Prostitute Girl, Fat Guy) and occasionally fight a boss - there's no branching paths or anything. I'd say that for u$13 it's worth it if you like the genre and want more of it, just don't expect anything special.
I don't know why, but this spelling made me laugh out loud at work.
Hitting things in this looks wildly unsatisfying and the hitstun seems really small. I can't tell if the people playing are bad or if the game is just really jank
The game takes a little time to learn and adjust to. I played it as I would Final Fight and ran into issues with combat, but once I adjusted and played in a manner that better suits this game, I found myself stringing my combo multiplier in the x75 range. For best results, the player needs to use grab and the rush to knockdown opponents.
Wow, this looks really slick. Really does bear a strong resemblance to Streets of Rage, and that's just what I'm looking for! I hope it comes to consoles.
I hope they finish it, it's still an early access game from what I know.
Nice. For my own personal taste, I'd add some scanlines tooI think I would actually prefer it if the resolution were much lower.
Wait..there's a new Streets of Rage coming out?! Where the fuck have I been?!
No? It's called The Takeover but it's obviously strongly inspired by SoR.
Man...I love beat em ups but this looks rough.
Oh well, I've still got Fight'N Rage to scratch my retro beat em up itch.
Oh well, I've still got Fight'N Rage to scratch my retro beat em up itch.
you just saved the game for me, it actually make much more sense being low resI think I would actually prefer it if the resolution were much lower.
Especially since that word didn't really become overused until the 2000's, so it doesn't really fit with the 90's throwback feel of this game.
I saw Nate Drake gameplay on Yt, it... doesn't look, move and sound great.
I hoped after the slugish Streets of Red, it would be cool but... nah :(.
I hoped after the slugish Streets of Red, it would be cool but... nah :(.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It should be like "Tubular" and "Far Out", basically anything Poochie would have said.
That would've actually catapulted this game straight to 10/10 status for me.
I like the look of it. Thank God it's not yet another pixel art game. The art style is fine and the low frame-rate totally reminds me of playing final fight on my Amiga. If i could handle Wing Commander on the 500, I can handle anything.