Yuzo Koshiro is the man! He also did magic on SNES that same year with Super Adventure Island. I didn't think it was possible. It's my favorite non-RPG soundtrack on SNES!
11:10 the commentator mentioning that the locations are wild made me think just how underrated the locations are. Many games fall into stereotypical locations and SoR2 is amazingly refreshing.
Anybody watching this just to let you know Antho and a few other runners in our community are actively going for a world's first no death mania in Streets of Rage 2, which is so difficult it has only recently been proven theoretically possible when a runner pulled off the first ever no death level 7 elevator on mania difficulty. We are talking one of the most difficult runs ever attempted in any video game. Just completely insane.
Believe it or not at least 2 runners that I know have no deathed SOR 3 on the hardest difficulty with all 4 characters and I'm sure more have. Anthopants and Corkscrewblow have both accomplished this and I'm sure more probably have as well. SOR 3 is super difficult casually, but once you master the game the enemies are easier to deal with and also more predictable. In SOR 2 mania multiple runners have no deathed 1-6 and stage 8. So without stage 7 it already would of happened. The real roadblock to a no death is the level 7 elevator which to my knowledge nobody has done in a full run. Runners are closing in slowly on the no death run in SOR 2 mania with the best being a 3 death run. As far as I know Professor of Rage, Anthopants, and Izumi have all gotten that close. Galedog said he did as well a few years ago, but he had no video to show. From the sound of it he's also coming out of retirement to go for the no death so it's a race between about 4 or 5 runners on who gets it first.
It's possible to insta-kill Zamza with power tackle if he blocks, I wonder why the speed runners don't try to pull that out since he tend to block after a normal hit.
Max had the "big a slow" trope that didn't appeal to many kids right out of the gate. But i GUARANTEE once everyone that saw his atomic back drop (DA DAMAGE!!!) quickly switched up on that opinion, hahaha
Absolutely love the Streets of Rage series, fantastic to play as co-op, I grew up with my beloved Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) II and one of the first games I had was the Sega Mega Games 2 with Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi, best childhood days were spent on those games and the amazing Sonic Series
great to see Anthropants at AGDQ, been following his channel for a while. the no deaths Zen streets of rage 3 run on hard is insane. i play this game on hard and it is seriously HARD
Never once gotten closer to beating this game on Mania than losing 4-5 lives with Max. WOW...been playing this since 1994, and this is probably THE speed run of all speed runs for SOR2. Love the use of Max's backbreaker and vertical down-punch (Up+B move).
Wonderful run! As someone who has played SoR2 my entire life, seeing strats like these for Max are invaluable and will certainly improve my future playthroughs! There's nothing like AI manipulation!
I swear, my brother and I literally had months of game play logged into this game if there was a built in counter. Only games we had were this and Sonic 2 and we'd play the crap out of this game, always on Mania. I'll probably make my kids play this gem as well.
THAT was cool dude :-) Commentator has it right : those speedrunners make it look easy but what they do is HARD as heck ! Trust me, I'm a runner myself but compared to those people I suck XD Also LOVE GDQ, I wish you had more events during the year, twice a year for example would be amazing, even if we see a bit less runs during the event :-)
I've been playing SoR2 for about 25 years now at this point, and I've gotten it down to a science. You know you can actually do the back breaker on shiva if you do a pixel perfect jump grab the moment he gets out of his standup animation? Maybe I should speedrun this game and show people how its done.
Hey great run this my favorite game by far it seem like there not very many beat ‘em up games out there have you done any of the teenage mutant ninja turtles games anyway great job you killed this game asome job man am so proud of you
Can someone help me with a download link for the remake. Been trying for a week and nothing but broken files. And if I need an emulator please suggest which one. Thank you to anyone that can help me
Is stamina really meaningless? I would assume it has something to do with health loss after a special -- I haven't touched the game in a while but I could swear based on this video that Max is losing less health than, say, Axel would, after performing the forward special attack
Indeed -- I went back to check and it does appear that all 4 characters lose the same amount of health on special. I think what got me confused was that the loss was a lot smaller than what you'd get in SOR3 if you don't let the special bar recharge, closer to 1/4 of your health bar potentially.
Hey. I found your videos on TH-cam a little while ago, after I finally completed Mania, to see if it was a common thing. It’s great that you got to show it off to such a big audience. It would be nice to see you come back and do it with Blaze or Skate, just to prove it can be done with the lesser characters.
Not one person has managed to clear the game deathless on mania mode. 3 deaths is the closest i think so 6 or 7 deaths in this run was pretty good going.
Thank you, everyone for the support. I love this game and it was a pleasure to get to show it off :)
Anthopants shit hot run man!
That was amazing. Well done, man.
That was an amazing run dude!
It was a blast to watch, amazing run.
Awesome run, dude. My donation wasn't read live (I did it with less than ten minutes left) so I'll cheer you here. Keep up the great work!
The music in this game is fucking incredible, always been my favorite genesis soundtrack by far. The composer is an FM synth god.
Yuzo Koshiro is the man! He also did magic on SNES that same year with Super Adventure Island. I didn't think it was possible. It's my favorite non-RPG soundtrack on SNES!
You'll get people in hip-hop/grime/dub that cite this games soundtrack as one of their main influences.
It is epic. This or phantasy star 4 are the best. most people don't know that game though
On the same coin, a lot of the music from the late 80s early 90s influenced this whole soundtrack
Stage 3 music is my fav of all time!!!!
11:10 the commentator mentioning that the locations are wild made me think just how underrated the locations are. Many games fall into stereotypical locations and SoR2 is amazingly refreshing.
"So the reason I didn't pick up that pipe... oop, nevermind."
"I just did that to mess with you."
LMAO.
Great run, good stuff.
Anybody watching this just to let you know Antho and a few other runners in our community are actively going for a world's first no death mania in Streets of Rage 2, which is so difficult it has only recently been proven theoretically possible when a runner pulled off the first ever no death level 7 elevator on mania difficulty.
We are talking one of the most difficult runs ever attempted in any video game. Just completely insane.
Believe it or not at least 2 runners that I know have no deathed SOR 3 on the hardest difficulty with all 4 characters and I'm sure more have. Anthopants and Corkscrewblow have both accomplished this and I'm sure more probably have as well.
SOR 3 is super difficult casually, but once you master the game the enemies are easier to deal with and also more predictable.
In SOR 2 mania multiple runners have no deathed 1-6 and stage 8. So without stage 7 it already would of happened. The real roadblock to a no death is the level 7 elevator which to my knowledge nobody has done in a full run. Runners are closing in slowly on the no death run in SOR 2 mania with the best being a 3 death run. As far as I know Professor of Rage, Anthopants, and Izumi have all gotten that close.
Galedog said he did as well a few years ago, but he had no video to show. From the sound of it he's also coming out of retirement to go for the no death so it's a race between about 4 or 5 runners on who gets it first.
Antho has done No Death SoR 3 with all characters. It's actually way easier because the spawns are easier to control. SoR 3 just has higher damage.
Just to let you know, he HAS succeeded recently!
Sorry for beating you up, just trying to keep the city safe.
The tech on display in this run is insane. Baiting Zamza, powering through R. Bear's wakeup with invincibility frames. I'm taking notes
It's possible to insta-kill Zamza with power tackle if he blocks, I wonder why the speed runners don't try to pull that out since he tend to block after a normal hit.
It's RNG if he blocks, and Max's grapples are more reliable.
Just when you think you know everything about this 25 year old game you see Peter Dinklage running mania on 1 life. Phenominal work Anthopants!
Back breaker? No no no, that's an atomic drop.
4:22 And that is further proof on why SoR2 is the greatest beat 'em up of all time.
when I was a kid I always insisted Max was the best character. 25 years later, I feel vindicated
He is problem is Axel is more fun to play
Max had the "big a slow" trope that didn't appeal to many kids right out of the gate. But i GUARANTEE once everyone that saw his atomic back drop (DA DAMAGE!!!) quickly switched up on that opinion, hahaha
Its axel.
I always picked either Azl or Blaze. Fast and nimble.
XD
Runner introduction starts at 00:23. Runs start at 1:12.
I haven't seen one yet so I'll say it. Doing gods work
The Master Class of breaking the bodies of dudes with the bodies of other dudes.
The king of beat 'em ups. Great run, I love this game. Played it so much in my youth, and still play it every chance I get.
The amount of lives I've lost to the robot army @ 47:00 cannot thank you enough for the sweet, vicarious revenge you have provided me.
Wow my childhood right before my eyes!!!
Jesus. I've not been able to beat this game since I was a kid. I have an all new respect for Max now.
This run is disgusting. I love it.
Absolutely love the Streets of Rage series, fantastic to play as co-op, I grew up with my beloved Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) II and one of the first games I had was the Sega Mega Games 2 with Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi, best childhood days were spent on those games and the amazing Sonic Series
Beat this game hundreds of times, but this was still a great watch.
If you haven't 1 credited the game on mania you haven't lived!
Damn! This was amazing and crazy! One of my favorite games of all time just destroyed. Hats off to you sir
Love the first stage's music, Go Straight. Absolute banger. Awesome run!
great to see Anthropants at AGDQ, been following his channel for a while. the no deaths Zen streets of rage 3 run on hard is insane. i play this game on hard and it is seriously HARD
Do! Base ball
It's like Boo!
This was my jam growing up. I'd play this every time I go to my cousin's place, and never get sick of it.
My childhood... :')
Never once gotten closer to beating this game on Mania than losing 4-5 lives with Max. WOW...been playing this since 1994, and this is probably THE speed run of all speed runs for SOR2. Love the use of Max's backbreaker and vertical down-punch (Up+B move).
I think this is my favorite run... quite impressive.
Bloody hell, the runner really looks like Peter Dinklage.
Beard and everything.
Wonderful run! As someone who has played SoR2 my entire life, seeing strats like these for Max are invaluable and will certainly improve my future playthroughs! There's nothing like AI manipulation!
THEE GREATEST BGM in all of VIDEO GAME HISTORY!
30:50 did anyone else think this was Bald Bull from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!
Great run, and awesome video.
I only beat this game once in my life. Took me 20 years, give or take, to beat this with the help of my brother.
I swear, my brother and I literally had months of game play logged into this game if there was a built in counter. Only games we had were this and Sonic 2 and we'd play the crap out of this game, always on Mania. I'll probably make my kids play this gem as well.
Amazing Soundtrack 🎵🎵🎵
Love this game but tired of seeing max runs, wonder what 2 player with the handshake of death would look like
The current TASVideos run does show that off. It's awesome.
31:49 That's the song from the Riptide level in Grand Poo World 2!
Maybe Streets of Rage 1 Co-op speed run next?
I'm so hyped for Streets of Rage 4
Holy shit Anthopants, you made it.
THAT was cool dude :-) Commentator has it right : those speedrunners make it look easy but what they do is HARD as heck ! Trust me, I'm a runner myself but compared to those people I suck XD
Also LOVE GDQ, I wish you had more events during the year, twice a year for example would be amazing, even if we see a bit less runs during the event :-)
Never expected Tyrion Lannister to be so good at beat 'em ups....
I've been playing SoR2 for about 25 years now at this point, and I've gotten it down to a science. You know you can actually do the back breaker on shiva if you do a pixel perfect jump grab the moment he gets out of his standup animation? Maybe I should speedrun this game and show people how its done.
This is a really cool Speedrun - it looks technically difficult to pull off.
999,999
"The later stages can really blow through a lot of lives." And then Anthopants does a 0 death mania run. lolol
I got to bigben before I figured out I e played this series in arcade. Great run
I wonder how much of this run could be applied to SorRemake? I love using Max there!
They have so many Fan Made Super Mario games in GDQ... it would be epic for them to have SorREmake in their marathon
Classic great job! FINAL CRASH!
Hey great run this my favorite game by far it seem like there not very many beat ‘em up games out there have you done any of the teenage mutant ninja turtles games anyway great job you killed this game asome job man am so proud of you
Fantastic run
👍🕹👊🤜 love Streets of Rage 2
Anthopants great speed run
crazy skill!!!
tfw commentary calls one of Max's moves a back-breaker when its pretty clearly an inverted atomic drop.
I can't beat this game... on easy... with help from a friend. Anthopants is godlike.
Difficulty curve does go sharply up with each stage. Maybe play it on emulator and use save states, or back in the day there was game genie.
9:50 Get on their level and HIT THE GUY I say!
I can move move mooove any mountain 17:49
0:14 Anthropants?
Can someone help me with a download link for the remake. Been trying for a week and nothing but broken files. And if I need an emulator please suggest which one. Thank you to anyone that can help me
Wow 999999 points too!
Is stamina really meaningless? I would assume it has something to do with health loss after a special -- I haven't touched the game in a while but I could swear based on this video that Max is losing less health than, say, Axel would, after performing the forward special attack
Also, HOW IS ANY OF THIS RUN REAL?!
Indeed -- I went back to check and it does appear that all 4 characters lose the same amount of health on special. I think what got me confused was that the loss was a lot smaller than what you'd get in SOR3 if you don't let the special bar recharge, closer to 1/4 of your health bar potentially.
Hey. I found your videos on TH-cam a little while ago, after I finally completed Mania, to see if it was a common thing. It’s great that you got to show it off to such a big audience.
It would be nice to see you come back and do it with Blaze or Skate, just to prove it can be done with the lesser characters.
Anthopants has 1cc'd with everyone, although he has the most trouble with Blaze.
Runs 2/4 player plis!! ♥ >
"MAX. Speed rating: 1 star"
Hmm.
The enemy names have some nice references f.e. to Hokuto No Ken :D
...and Hanzo, haha
My favorite SOR
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Nice!!!! 😎😎
He’s good at this 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼 people hating here are only jealous 👌🏼
So is skate a bad character then?
Axl > Max. Axl's uppercut makes short work of any enemy
Is that peter dinklage?
Thought the runner was Peter Dinklage.
I'm so bad at this game...
I played this so much when I was a kid. Fucking amazing game, but I sucked at it.
This run had me in awe.. Gotdamn anthopants
There is one correction- Max is the only character that can body slam the heavy enemies. All other characters will get crushed.
@27:10 suplex city, b*tch
tyrion lannister at GDQ? :P
I thought he was going to use 1 live to clear Mania mode. Using so many lives even with Max's exploit is not great at all.
Not one person has managed to clear the game deathless on mania mode.
3 deaths is the closest i think so 6 or 7 deaths in this run was pretty good going.