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There was also a minor one with The TakeOver, another SOR-inspired urban beat 'em up using pre-rendered 3D models. Both games were long-awaited sequels to classic beat 'em ups by new studios released in 2020, featuring bright, cartoonish, high-definition 2D graphics. The English release was changed for the worse with the added difficulty, and it had a more experimental soundtrack widely considered to be weaker.

It's Blanka-Vega.) Their decision to go back to the smaller characters with SoR3 was a little mystifying, though. Capcom fans may appreciate the Street Fighter II homage/ripoff in the form of "Zamza." (That's Blanka.

It has a great balance of stage space and character definition. Final Fight invented the formula, but SoR2 perfected it. The second game was great some have even called it a masterpiece.

Streets of Rage being made specifically for a console worked out better as far as not having to downgrade anything, as was common for arcade ports.

(Plus it gave us Poison!) But the follow-ups were not as good ( Final Fight 3 notwithstanding, though it still lacked the wider recognition of the first installment). The original Final Fight is superb the definitive 90's side-scroller beat 'em up.

Capcom was almost untouchable when it came to Beat 'em Up arcade games.

For the original trilogy, with Capcom's Final Fight.

There was going to be a Streets of Rage 4 on the Sega Saturn, but it was turned into the unrelated game Fighting Force, and instead released on the PlayStation and Nintendo 64.

This explains the appearance of the police car from ESWAT when using the game's special move.

The first game started its development as a spin-off of ESWAT: City Under Siege originally given the development title of DSWAT.

Content Leak: One of the final trailers for 4 revealed Y Island in the Battle Mode, which was actually meant to be a secret that's exposed when progressing in the Story Mode.

Colbert Bump: The second game's soundtrack, in particular Stage 3's main theme "Dreamer", saw a brief upsurge in interest thanks to Smooth McGroove covering it.

B-Team Sequel: The first three games were made by Sega while the fourth was made by Lizardcube.

The story was also completely rewritten and overhauled, turning the Rakushin bombs into just generic bombs, removing the city bombing intro, and sliding in a robot duplicate plot that replaced the Syndicate's attempts to Take Over the World with the Rakushin.

Also, the Japanese version's Easy difficulty, which still lets you complete the entire game and would've been the overseas versions' Easier Than Easy difficulty, is removed altogether.

In other words, you're punished for playing a non-Japanese version. Not necessarily because of the inflated difficulty itself, but because the lowest difficulty setting in the overseas versions, Easy, includes Easy-Mode Mockery that cuts out the last two stages of the game, while the Japanese version's equivalent difficulty level, Normal, lets you play to the very end. Approval of God: The developers of Streets of Rage 4 (Lizardcube, Dotemu, and Guard Crush Games) revealed in an interview with TGG in 2018 that they had played fan games of the series, even specifically acknowledging Streets of Rage Remake.