It honestly is a perfect compliment to the series. You can play any of the games as any of the characters + great original content. Remake really is the one to play unless you want just want to keep it traditional!
If you have the PC version, you can actually switch out the music files & put in the originals or even custom music. And if you're really inclined, you can even customise the enemies/sprites.
@Eddie Venkman SoRR makes a point of not coming with any assets from the original games, which is why all the art was redone and the included music is remixed/rearranged. On the other hand, it supports custom assets so you can swap these out for the originals.
Tempted to throw in Power Rangers for Game Gear, but it's technically not a beat-em-up even though its story mode tries to trick you into thinking it is.
Yuzo Koshiro did the music for all 3 Streets of Rage games, which was inspired by club music that was popular at the time, and was one of his more famous works. I hope Yuzo returns to make new music for Streets of Rage 4.
SmaMan Debatable, Poets II is pretty darn awesome. And Fuze is probably the most recognizable piece; both of which are by Kawashima. I do admit that while I prefer his tracks, III is really more of a joint effort than solely that of either composer.
The reason why the difficulty is so unreasonable in some of these USA-localised Mega Drive games is because Sega of America were convinced that the rental market would cannibalise cartridge sales if the games were easily beatable. They ramped up how hard their games were and pressurised important 2nd and 3rd party developers into doing the same. (Dynamite Headdy and Contra Hard Corps being other notable examples)
It really is the best beat em up series ever. The hardest thing for a beat em up to do is stay fun with multiple playthroughs and I never get bored of these games...even 3
despite the music being patchy, 3 is pretty good. AS LONG as it's bare knuckle 3, for some reason in SOR3 they ramped up the difficulty and it is painful to play through.
@@mortenpotzdidler4677 Way too frustrating at times. Soon as I saw a Galsia with a knife walk up on the turkey I desperately needed and eat it, I knew I was in for a bad time.
Alien vs Predator is actually better than Streets of Rage and now as of 2022 with Shredders Revenge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the best beat em up series. Streets of Rage 2 & 4 are both great but the don't compare to AvP or TMNT.
The soundtrack of SOR3 left me mostly bemused and cold when I was a kid. Nowadays I think it's the greatest most impressive collection of sounds ever generated by a 16-bit console
Streets of Rage 3 I see as kind of a Japan Mario 2. Its like: "you mastered the last game, here' the next challenge". I actually beat 3 and yeah it was hard, but I kept trying and eventually got the good ending. Plus the little additions like hidden characters, using power moves w/o taking damage and the star system rewarding you for doing well actually were pretty good ideas.
I think it's worth mentioning the 3DS ports of Streets of Rage 1&2 by M2. In addition to adding (surprisingly well implemented) stereoscopic 3D, they're loaded with extra game modes and easter eggs. They also contain both the US and Japanese versions, and they support local multiplayer. It's a shame they never got around to 3.
the 3DS port is really good, and the GBA update of Final Fight was also really good. But Ninty never got the TMNT in Time port. So weird. xbox360 had a ton of good port/updates. ermerggddd
Yeah I have the sequel on my 3ds and there's a feature you can one hit kill the enemies in the game, even the bosses! I think that that makes the game too easy to breeze through, but seeing that there are 8 stages in all and some guys take a lot of health to defeat, I guess it deserves to be in there.
I’ve been doing some serious snes-drinking lately and catching up on “the early years”. I know I’ve said this before but I find your videos well thought out and well written. The mixing and voiceovers are just as good too. Basically you chose really interesting topics and make a lot of these games come alive. Ive found some fingers that I never knew existed back in the day. Thanks for continuously putting out such solid work.
Every Time I play streets 2 it brings back so many childhood memorys. I was the only one in my group of friends to have a Genesis so my bedroom was always ground zero for amazing streets of rage action. The memorys of me and buddy's playing for hours on end and munching on Doritos and slamming coca cola will be memorys I will never forget.
Because Streets of Rage is a freaking awesome beat-em-up, that's why. And Streets of Rage 2, not Sonic, was the very first game I ever owned and played on my Genesis back in the day. I LOVE the "In the Bar" theme in Stage 1, as Yuzo Koshiro really nailed it with the music.
I don't own very many video games, but of the handful I do own Streets of Rage 2 is one of them. Hell, I just love looking at the box art. Everything about that game was so well made.
I personally always liked SoR3 best because of the difficulty and special meter, running, and unlockables. Put many hours into that game. Bare Knuckle 3 is where its at though overall.
The world could go against me with this comment, but in my opinion I don't how streets of rage 2 is considered to be a better game then the original streets of rage, for starters in original streets of rage the physics are smoother and longer like when a pile driver is done on a enemy, number 2 you loose summoning the cop, number 3 the amount of detail there is in terms graphics and sound and design is beyond in the first game. The original Streets of Rage is a underated beat em up game that never got the attention it deserves.
Streets of Rage is hands down my favorite beat em up series. And the remake is the best SOR remake is the best experience. The amount of replayability is insane, with tons of content, gameplay tweaks and unlockables. For any beat em up fan, I HIGHLY recommend seeking it out. It's one of the great fan projects ever made, along with AM2R and Kaiser's EX games.
BKIII doesn't just tone down the overall difficulty, but it also reduces the overall amount of damage that enemies deal by a SUBSTANTIAL amount. In Streets of Rage 3 on higher difficulties, like Hard, you get BODIED if you aren't careful. Just a few hits from some Zacks and some sudden slides from a Scarab or two and you're DOS (Dead On The Spot). Meanwhile, take that same situation into BKIII and you'll probably get away with about 10-15% of your health taken away. Just a massive difference. I truly believe that BKIII is the true version of SOR3 and that someone made the game way harder for American audiences because they probably wanted to be "challenged" in many ways.
I still don't understand why SEGA didn't bought Streets of Rage Remake and published it by himself instead of shutting down the whole project at the moment of the final release, it was an act of love for the series and a great work effort which deserved a better fate.
Yes, Fighting Force apart, after 24 years (and 7 years from the shut down of the remake project) something finally showed up! I'm really looking forward to the release of Streets of Rage 4, however, even if I don't know how this one will be, I still think that SoRR was something different that deserved his own place in the series.
I know the Final Fantasy composer gets the most hype but Yuzo Koshiro is easily the best composer of the 16bit era. He's soundtracks are albums that completely stand on there own. I've played songs from the Streets of Rage 2 soundtracks during my regular DJ sets and people loved them. Props to Mr Koshiro.
I had a japanese version Bare Knuckles III when I was a kid. It is my all time favorite beat em up till this day. The fast paced action and stars special moves really make it special. Played it every day after school along with Mortal Kombat 3 and Rock n Roll Racing
I'm glad you think so highly of the Streets of Rage games. The second one is still the best overall, but the other games are definitely no slouches. I got my hands on Bare Knuckle 3 for all the reasons you mentioned. I can't stand the amount of changes Sega made in localisation. Axl's grand upper sound bite was also changed to bare knuckle in the Western release even though that just makes no sense at all.
Streets of rage 2. One of the rare examples of a game that still rules it's genre. I haven't played a better beat em up till this day. There was no competion back then. Streets of rage destroyed everything that Nintendo could conjure, from Final Fight to Turtles in time. No game came even close to rival Streets of rage.
I’ve always like the first game the best. The second game is objectively better, but I still like the original better. Great series whichever way you slice it. Even the slightly disappointing third game is better than most beat em ups of the era.
Best part is the ending theme to. Someone needs to do a "Don't go crazy with the soundtrack" meme for it. Sega: "It's just a mindless beat-em-up, no need to go crazy with the soundtrack." Yuzo Koshiro: (Playing flaming piano)
Streets of Rage Remake is amazing. It has all three in one game... and even cut content as new levels. You have the option to have all the best stuff like dashing, rolling, the star meter... whilst playing the original Streets of Rage levels, if you wanted. I love this series and have a massive fondness for the soundtracks of 1 and 2.
SOR remake is like a big giant cake all yummy on the apparence but taste like Diarrhea. It's an unbalanced stupid game, a monster of Frankenstein. Worst Streets of rage (yeah i even pref' the ports, they have interesting stuff in it at least) Average fan game
whatever this fanboy wants to believe with a pathetic score of "no one playing the game after few months now for years. Content being resumed of "random noob find it per luck and like it" or "random mods created" cause the game sucks so much there's only mods that makes it decent.
Lol take off your nostagia glasses sorr did almost everything what the original didn’t 1:keep the characters 2:add cpu 3:add the shop for stuff 4:extra modes 5:and the mods The only downgrade was Nurf mania mode and max’s Atomic drop a bit but whatever anyway I would’nt expect you to understand after all your not so bright
Nostalgia glasses, you're a clown, your fan game is nostalgia ! It's already dead for years... Breaking good games by mixing everything together is just immature and a huge stupid idea if you wanna top a professional game series. This is why it never was good and brought to public release. Unlike the amazing team who made sonic mania who totally understood what made sonic great. But lemme laugh at your stupid points again : 1. Oh wow they made an unbalanced mugen, amazing argument. So DBZ mugens with 600 characters clones > DBZF xD 2. Cpu wow that's an argument ??? REALLY ???? and no online ? top kek, have fun with your imaginary cpu friend. 3. Add the shop for stuff ? you mean put RPG elements in a Beat 'em up ? what a retarded thing plus you already doesn't want to finish this turd twice (and its longer than an arcade RPG game) and they force you to grind for bonuses you don't even care about. 4. Extra modes, that no one cares,no one played wooooo i'm having a blast playing ballzzz in a streets of rage, its so much better making useless modes instead of, i dont know, make a REAL game ? Balance your mugen shit ? Make a better AI ? LEARN TO MAKE THE GAME SCREEN SIZE PROPERLY WITHOUT STRETCHING IT !!! Or get an artist instead of making atrocious PAINT art for the game.... Maybe pay some respect to the butchered SOR3 part ??? no they didn't care they hated it so it got the lazy treatment. Creating new sequences instead of adding Beta / Unused scenes the original devs judged useless but the fanboys are so retarded they wanna add them xD WOW 90% of this project is just reused stuff from the originals ! SO MUCH ORIGINALITY. ! 5. oh yeah great one, the mods, cause "we sucks so much that we slip that in, so the community will do what we couldn't." The classic. The only argument i can say thank god they did that cause instead of having a Turd of a game we have a modified/patched version of this turd that somewhat makes it half decent and mods from really creative people trying to break their stupid code in order to make something actually good. But still using that as an argument of why SORR is good is just shooting your own foot with a gun. You admit they fucked up and Mods are better than the original project. Nerf mania more like completely fuck up every balance system by putting too much characters from different games and allowing you to cheat option the shit outta it not even adding the fact they fucked with the AI too LOL. Dude you're not even a SOR player don't even try to excuse poorly handled projects with real games. The facts are here, no one play it anymore, it's dead compared to the flow of people still streaming, playing the shit out of the originals. You're so stupid i bet you're a kid who plays Mugen shit games, my little pony, god even pokemon might be too hard for you, let's say Yu gi oh! LOL ~ how can you see failure in basic game design if you're not even playing the good games.
I assume the difficulty of the third game was changed as a concession to the rental market. It actually wasn't uncommon for games back then to have their difficulty increased when they were localised.
Not too long ago I decided to throw in Streets of Rage and play with my younger brother who never had. We started with 2 and moved on to 3. Having a 20+ years fresh look at it: Streets of Rage 3's moveset is great, but the difficulty is goddamn brutal.
Game rentals were ilegal in Japan. Sega of America reacted to the legality of rentals by making their games harder, in the hopes customers wouldn’t be able to beat it over one retal period. Dynamite Heady is another example of this idiocy .
Tybis That game is an exercise in frustration, controlling Ecco is super hard and I get stuck about ten minutes into it . I have no idea how to pass that first crystal. Not sure If I can blame Sega of America for that though...
I still play all 3 of them including The fan made remake. One thing to add is that the fan made took 10 years to make because it was designed from the ground up. Nothing in the game used any of Sega's SOR game in all 3. Even the music were remixed.
I go between a lot of beat ‘em ups on SNES and Genesis. These games are just so much better than any other beat ‘em Up. 3 honestly has the best mechanics...and it is a shame that 4 focused on the mechanics of 2.
fun fact turn out that during streets if rage 3's localization programming mistake occurred that permanently bumped the difficulty without anyone notice til it was too late
One way that part 2 is worse than part 1 is that it lacks team moves. In the first game, you can throw your partner towards the enemies and your partner can perform a very powerful flying attack. Or you can leap over your partner to perform a powerful flying attack in the other direction. That was brought back for part 3.
I pick Streets of Rage 2 as the best beat 'em up of all time, across all platforms. Though I do think the original Streets of Rage has a slightly better soundtrack.
The international version of Streets or Rage 3 was more difficult because around the time of its release the video game rental market was taking off, if the game was less challenging it could be completed over a weekend and no one would bother purchasing it for full price.
I prefer the soundtrack to SOR1 than the sequel. The second game has two outstanding tracks but it feels like the first game has more. I can’t tell you the impact putting the first game on for the first time and hearing the music alongside the intro had. I was in awe.
I don't think many TH-camrs could take a well known, much loved game like this and make an original, fun, entertaining video. Kudos to you for doing so. I learned a lot from it too: I had no idea about holding jump + up to negate a throw, or what the heck a star by your energy bar meant. I guess that's a problem with cart only collecting... no manuals!
3:50 One of the best things about street of rage to is the music: Mixing the heart and soul from Chicago house with the dystopian cyberpunk-esque sound from Detroit techno really suits the concept of Street of rage. Fighting delinquency in the 90s has never been more fun.
I missed this series when the genesis was out, and tried it on a strangers ds. Definitely one of the best genesis games/series I missed out on. Clearly I played too much sonic
Some things to bring up: With regards to the atmosphere of SoR 2: The first stage boss battle is just plain epic. The music is gone for a moment and all you hear the falling rain as it slowly climbs in. You're in this dingy alley behind a bar and it just feels gritty. The boss tears off his shirt as he joins the fray. There's even this claustrophobic fight inside a moving truck with around ten on-screen opponents and this high adrenaline music. With regards to the difficulty of SoR 3: They really did a number with one boss fight. I think he is called Jet. The bosses have "lives" meaning that you have to deplete their life bar a number of times. Usually it's around three or four at most. Jet has a whopping seven lives and he continually brings in more jet pack goons with his same move set. In the Japanese release he had three lives. The only way to have a fighting chance is to knock out two of the three goons and try to avoid the other since he tends to call them in when they're all beaten. There is a slight "hack" when you go in single player. Once you reach the last life of your last continue pull out the controller and plug it into the second port. Hit start and you can join in with a full stock of continues. Only way I managed to reach the brutal final stage.
I grew up playing the living shit outta the SOR games and still do, especially now that SOR4 is out so I guess I just never really thought of it but yeah... you're right. The last level of SOR1 is absolutely fucking INSANE. I like it though. Both just as a level due to it's design, atmosphere and music and I also love it's design principal. ANYBODY can slog their way to the end of SOR1 on easy or normal playing shitty and reckless, cop-calling the shit outta every boss to kill them but then once the last level the game's like "Oh sheeeeeiitt, kid! Looks like you're gonna actually have to learn to play the game with some semblance of skill and technique! Can't just bomb your way through this one! ;D"
Awesome video! There were a few things not mentioned in the video that obviously most would hardly even know about this series like the team attack, being able to land from being thrown and even (recently discovered) being able to break some grabs if your fast enough. There was also a japan only remake of SoR1 ported to mobile phones that oddly enough added some more features the series never had like cancelling your combos into throws and alternative combos for example.
Anyone ever use to chill on a Saturday morning and just let the SOR2 sound test play all the BGM tracks like background music for life? Anyone?..........anyone?..............shit.......
@@kyronwilkins nice. Since I got the Master Sytem II "Fighting Edition" that came with SOR2 back in the day, I have an entirely different affinity for the game than i di for the first and the third games. All amazing in their own right, SOR2 is widely considered the best of the three and I agree. Here's to hoping SOR4 actually gets made.
I remember asking for the first Streets of Rage at a flea market because I assumed it was the best. The guy looked for a bit then said "I've only got the 2nd one". I was like "...fuck it, why not". One of the best decisions I've made. Streets of Rage 2 is my favorite Genesis game ever, and I've played it so many times. Such an amazing classic!
I hear the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack in my dreams and I've *never even played the game.* I've played the first one quite a bit but I only played it for the first time about a year ago from the time of writing, I haven't moved on to the second one yet because I loved the first so much I decided I wanted to fully master it before moving on. Actually before I played it I always thought I kinda hated beat em ups and was only checking it out because I really liked the style of the game on a surface level, but it single handedly convinced me that the genre is fantastic.
I do believe the Japanese versions of all these games (and all games on the collection, in general) are on the SEGA Genesis Classics for PS4 and XBOX ONE, so that's actually really good to know about Streets of Rage 3
Streets of rage was the epitome of 90s beat em ups. My hope is that the team behind the Yakuza games revives this series, it can even still take place in the 90s!
Still my favorite beat em up series! Nice transition to other platforms as well! Video games are awesome and the Streets of rage series is legendary! The music for Streets of rage 2 is chock full of classics! Great video Drunk!
So much nostalgia for this series!!! I remember having friends stay over during summer break renting streets of rage 1&2 and staying up all night. The streets need cleaning they are full of rage!!!👊🎮👍
My introduction to 1 was on Sega CD and then 2 on Dreamcast and 3 on PS2. It felt weird being introduced to the series this way rather than on Genesis itself. I never knew that Dreamcast’s sound is warped and still find that version nostalgic.
Thanks for mentioning Fighting Force. It's actually my 2nd favorite SoR game. I was thinking to myself that nobody ever seems to mention that it's the unofficial SoR4 as I was watching your video. And then lo and behold.
Hey, I play Beat Em' Ups for the story! With Streets of Rage 1-it's always amazing how that clear screen attack never hurts you! I've never played Streets of Rage 3 though-so it would be interesting to see how challenging the game is (I wonder how challenging it is spamming jump kicks attacks-as opposed to not spamming jump kick attacks) Thanks for doing a great review on the Streets of Rage series for Sega Genesis!! As well as bringing up some other games there after!
It's like a mix of fighting game between Super Double Dragon meets Final Fight 3 on SNES, both means fighting it out on the streets, if not enough, add TMNT IV Turtles in Time and Batman Return... Batman Return might only be one player, but Batman had a bunch of gadgets including something looking like a nuke, and on top of that, in Batman Return, you get to drive the Batmobile at one stage similar to the likes of F-Zero...
And now because of the long lasting hype, Streets of Rage 4 is born!!!!! ✊🏻💥
it's like he knew they were going to release 4 before hand
It's been known for awhile now that they were working on it.....
Dee Bee Geek
it would be *GOD TIER* if it becomes a thing and it's not a thing without Yuzo Koshiro
Man, Yuzo is a musical master. Don't forget his great work on Sonic 1.
@@waverunner7063 He is also the music composer for Namco Bandai Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune series
And just days after this video they announce a sequel.
Confess, you are the evil masters behind Sega.
The SNES DRUNK name was a big clue.
CB W It's hand drawn, it looks just as good as games like Wario Land 4.
Totally underselling Remake here. That game is the best part of the franchise, and perhaps the greatest fan endeavor of all time.
Word!
"It's pretty good" is a hell of an understatement.
It honestly is a perfect compliment to the series. You can play any of the games as any of the characters + great original content. Remake really is the one to play unless you want just want to keep it traditional!
If you have the PC version, you can actually switch out the music files & put in the originals or even custom music. And if you're really inclined, you can even customise the enemies/sprites.
@Eddie Venkman SoRR makes a point of not coming with any assets from the original games, which is why all the art was redone and the included music is remixed/rearranged. On the other hand, it supports custom assets so you can swap these out for the originals.
There is no Beat 'em up game without an elevator stage
Fact
Tempted to throw in Power Rangers for Game Gear, but it's technically not a beat-em-up even though its story mode tries to trick you into thinking it is.
There's no elevator stage in Rival Turf. Pretty sure there's not one in Riot City/Riot Zone either.
charlie murder
Elevator and bridge stages are a must.
it's not hype it's the truth I still play Streets of Rage 2 quite often
ironically enough i just got done playing it before this video uploaded.
Me too I still play SOR2 a lot!
This series is my go-to for 2 player, old school co-op.
The phrase is, as he said, it lives up to the hype. Hype isn't always a lie, we are just used to using it in a negative manner in gaming.
Me too
Yuzo Koshiro did the music for all 3 Streets of Rage games, which was inspired by club music that was popular at the time, and was one of his more famous works. I hope Yuzo returns to make new music for Streets of Rage 4.
Neorevenant Alchemist XII Motohiro Kawashima did the lion’s share of III, and even some from 2, like Max Man and Expander.
At least Yuzo did all the good tracks from III.
SmaMan Debatable, Poets II is pretty darn awesome. And Fuze is probably the most recognizable piece; both of which are by Kawashima.
I do admit that while I prefer his tracks, III is really more of a joint effort than solely that of either composer.
Yes, "Inspired"... While he could make the Genesis sing I take issue with 98% of his work.
Club music? More specifically techno/house music.
The reason why the difficulty is so unreasonable in some of these USA-localised Mega Drive games is because Sega of America were convinced that the rental market would cannibalise cartridge sales if the games were easily beatable. They ramped up how hard their games were and pressurised important 2nd and 3rd party developers into doing the same. (Dynamite Headdy and Contra Hard Corps being other notable examples)
I thought Nintendo did that
Konami was guilty of that too
I love how the music changes for the bosses in the first streets of rage, also the noise the car makes as its skids in before firing the bazooka! :D
It really is the best beat em up series ever. The hardest thing for a beat em up to do is stay fun with multiple playthroughs and I never get bored of these games...even 3
Bare Knuckle III is the best entry.
despite the music being patchy, 3 is pretty good. AS LONG as it's bare knuckle 3, for some reason in SOR3 they ramped up the difficulty and it is painful to play through.
The music is fine in BK3 but SOR3 was horrible. They changed to much and the music was broken AF.
@@mortenpotzdidler4677 Way too frustrating at times. Soon as I saw a Galsia with a knife walk up on the turkey I desperately needed and eat it, I knew I was in for a bad time.
Alien vs Predator is actually better than Streets of Rage and now as of 2022 with Shredders Revenge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the best beat em up series. Streets of Rage 2 & 4 are both great but the don't compare to AvP or TMNT.
The soundtrack of SOR3 left me mostly bemused and cold when I was a kid. Nowadays I think it's the greatest most impressive collection of sounds ever generated by a 16-bit console
It is really interesting and impressive. It is not for everyone but for me is a masterpiece.
That soundtrack was pushing genre boundaries...on a video game system. Very impressive stuff.
Streets of Rage 3 I see as kind of a Japan Mario 2. Its like: "you mastered the last game, here' the next challenge". I actually beat 3 and yeah it was hard, but I kept trying and eventually got the good ending. Plus the little additions like hidden characters, using power moves w/o taking damage and the star system rewarding you for doing well actually were pretty good ideas.
Yeah, all these kiddies complaining about SOR 3 being too hard are laughable. Bare Knuckle 3 is piss easy, they just don't know how to play SOR 3.
I think it's worth mentioning the 3DS ports of Streets of Rage 1&2 by M2. In addition to adding (surprisingly well implemented) stereoscopic 3D, they're loaded with extra game modes and easter eggs. They also contain both the US and Japanese versions, and they support local multiplayer. It's a shame they never got around to 3.
the 3DS port is really good, and the GBA update of Final Fight was also really good. But Ninty never got the TMNT in Time port. So weird. xbox360 had a ton of good port/updates. ermerggddd
Yeah I have the sequel on my 3ds and there's a feature you can one hit kill the enemies in the game, even the bosses! I think that that makes the game too easy to breeze through, but seeing that there are 8 stages in all and some guys take a lot of health to defeat, I guess it deserves to be in there.
Well, the 360 Sega Vintage game has 3 including the Japanese version.
Look more like emulated versions than ports.
I’ve been doing some serious snes-drinking lately and catching up on “the early years”. I know I’ve said this before but I find your videos well thought out and well written. The mixing and voiceovers are just as good too. Basically you chose really interesting topics and make a lot of these games come alive. Ive found some fingers that I never knew existed back in the day. Thanks for continuously putting out such solid work.
Streets of Rage 2 I feel they really out did themselves at Sega. And remake was really cool as well.
Absolutely, but I still enjoy going back to this one.
Every Time I play streets 2 it brings back so many childhood memorys. I was the only one in my group of friends to have a Genesis so my bedroom was always ground zero for amazing streets of rage action. The memorys of me and buddy's playing for hours on end and munching on Doritos and slamming coca cola will be memorys I will never forget.
Drop everything, SNESdrunk uploaded!!!
Every. Damn. Time.
The Gunman lol :)
even better: it's SEGA Drunk
Hey gunman I see you got a spot for classic games. Im a fan of you car paint videos. Keep it up
@@DaveLong watch Alex Jones
Because Streets of Rage is a freaking awesome beat-em-up, that's why. And Streets of Rage 2, not Sonic, was the very first game I ever owned and played on my Genesis back in the day. I LOVE the "In the Bar" theme in Stage 1, as Yuzo Koshiro really nailed it with the music.
I don't own very many video games, but of the handful I do own Streets of Rage 2 is one of them. Hell, I just love looking at the box art. Everything about that game was so well made.
I personally always liked SoR3 best because of the difficulty and special meter, running, and unlockables. Put many hours into that game. Bare Knuckle 3 is where its at though overall.
Streets of Rage Remake is great too😏
Definitive way to play them
I want to see Sega publish the remake officially
Does it cover only the first game of the series or multiple games or what?
All 3 games mashed up with branching paths and such from what I could tell from my play-throughs
Streets Of Rage Remake is the greatest SOR game ever made, and the greatest side scrolling brawler ever made.
The world could go against me with this comment, but in my opinion I don't how streets of rage 2 is considered to be a better game then the original streets of rage, for starters in original streets of rage the physics are smoother and longer like when a pile driver is done on a enemy, number 2 you loose summoning the cop, number 3 the amount of detail there is in terms graphics and sound and design is beyond in the first game. The original Streets of Rage is a underated beat em up game that never got the attention it deserves.
Streets of Rage is hands down my favorite beat em up series. And the remake is the best SOR remake is the best experience. The amount of replayability is insane, with tons of content, gameplay tweaks and unlockables. For any beat em up fan, I HIGHLY recommend seeking it out. It's one of the great fan projects ever made, along with AM2R and Kaiser's EX games.
For anyone who hasn't yet played SoR Remake, play SoR Remake. It's absolutely incredible.
No.
What do you mean no
@@zac.t3975 He's just a salty hater acting like Remake is bad.
@@KyussTheWalkingWorm ikr he must really like it but cant admit it
Zixon just a real sor player.
1:25 *Hits a backflip off elevator* PIECE OUT!
The absolute best part of my Childhood.I still use the Streets of Rage 2 music for my ringtones... Thanks so much for making this!
BKIII doesn't just tone down the overall difficulty, but it also reduces the overall amount of damage that enemies deal by a SUBSTANTIAL amount. In Streets of Rage 3 on higher difficulties, like Hard, you get BODIED if you aren't careful. Just a few hits from some Zacks and some sudden slides from a Scarab or two and you're DOS (Dead On The Spot). Meanwhile, take that same situation into BKIII and you'll probably get away with about 10-15% of your health taken away. Just a massive difference. I truly believe that BKIII is the true version of SOR3 and that someone made the game way harder for American audiences because they probably wanted to be "challenged" in many ways.
SOR 1 has One of the greatest soundtracks ever. Holy fuck. I listened to this every day for a few months last year. Thanks for the reminder.
I still don't understand why SEGA didn't bought Streets of Rage Remake and published it by himself instead of shutting down the whole project at the moment of the final release, it was an act of love for the series and a great work effort which deserved a better fate.
Well I guess we know the answer to this now.
Yes, Fighting Force apart, after 24 years (and 7 years from the shut down of the remake project) something finally showed up! I'm really looking forward to the release of Streets of Rage 4, however, even if I don't know how this one will be, I still think that SoRR was something different that deserved his own place in the series.
Cause the game was shit.
Real story they disrespected the deal with SEGA and they gently canceled the agreement.
I know the Final Fantasy composer gets the most hype but Yuzo Koshiro is easily the best composer of the 16bit era. He's soundtracks are albums that completely stand on there own. I've played songs from the Streets of Rage 2 soundtracks during my regular DJ sets and people loved them. Props to Mr Koshiro.
Streets of Rage 3 has my favourite soundtrack out of any Mega Drive game. Absolutely mind blowing shit.
Watching this after having played the crap out of Streets of Rage 4. Probably the best game in the series now.
I just discovered that Floyd might be OP. Except against the cops with the riot shields.
I had a japanese version Bare Knuckles III when I was a kid. It is my all time favorite beat em up till this day. The fast paced action and stars special moves really make it special. Played it every day after school along with Mortal Kombat 3 and Rock n Roll Racing
Sega REALLY needs to bring this series back.
Your wish is granted
Pos te tengo una muy buena noticia XD
Well, you're in luck! 😂
I don't think you can call it "hype" 20 years later. At that point it's probably cemented as a "classic".
Probably because the 4ty game has been anm
Probably because the 4th game has been announced.
So nostalgic, LOVE Yuzo Koshiros music too. Adds so much to the experience, I think deserves a proper shout out in your video.
I'm glad you think so highly of the Streets of Rage games. The second one is still the best overall, but the other games are definitely no slouches. I got my hands on Bare Knuckle 3 for all the reasons you mentioned. I can't stand the amount of changes Sega made in localisation. Axl's grand upper sound bite was also changed to bare knuckle in the Western release even though that just makes no sense at all.
Streets of rage 2. One of the rare examples of a game that still rules it's genre. I haven't played a better beat em up till this day. There was no competion back then. Streets of rage destroyed everything that Nintendo could conjure, from Final Fight to Turtles in time. No game came even close to rival Streets of rage.
Did....did you know that Streets of Rage 4 was coming? This video is incredibly timely!
I’m liking the Sega entries! Review the Thunder Force series!
I’ve always like the first game the best. The second game is objectively better, but I still like the original better. Great series whichever way you slice it. Even the slightly disappointing third game is better than most beat em ups of the era.
SOR2 was and still is a perfect beat'em up that puts other beat'em ups to shame.
SOR4 is a great homage to the series.
Best part is the ending theme to. Someone needs to do a "Don't go crazy with the soundtrack" meme for it.
Sega: "It's just a mindless beat-em-up, no need to go crazy with the soundtrack."
Yuzo Koshiro: (Playing flaming piano)
Its the greatest series that has been completely abandoned by its maker. Love and have all 3 and have all 3 soundtracks from Data Disc.
Streets of Rage Remake is amazing. It has all three in one game... and even cut content as new levels. You have the option to have all the best stuff like dashing, rolling, the star meter... whilst playing the original Streets of Rage levels, if you wanted. I love this series and have a massive fondness for the soundtracks of 1 and 2.
SOR remake is like a big giant cake all yummy on the apparence but taste like Diarrhea.
It's an unbalanced stupid game, a monster of Frankenstein.
Worst Streets of rage (yeah i even pref' the ports, they have interesting stuff in it at least)
Average fan game
@@hikari67 hmm i think your nostalgia glasses are on too tight sorr is one of the best fan games created surpassing the trilogy of sor
whatever this fanboy wants to believe with a pathetic score of "no one playing the game after few months now for years. Content being resumed of "random noob find it per luck and like it" or "random mods created" cause the game sucks so much there's only mods that makes it decent.
Lol take off your nostagia glasses sorr did almost everything what the original didn’t
1:keep the characters
2:add cpu
3:add the shop for stuff
4:extra modes
5:and the mods
The only downgrade was Nurf mania mode and max’s Atomic drop a bit but whatever anyway I would’nt expect you to understand after all your not so bright
Nostalgia glasses, you're a clown, your fan game is nostalgia ! It's already dead for years... Breaking good games by mixing everything together is just immature and a huge stupid idea if you wanna top a professional game series. This is why it never was good and brought to public release. Unlike the amazing team who made sonic mania who totally understood what made sonic great.
But lemme laugh at your stupid points again :
1. Oh wow they made an unbalanced mugen, amazing argument. So DBZ mugens with 600 characters clones > DBZF xD
2. Cpu wow that's an argument ??? REALLY ???? and no online ? top kek, have fun with your imaginary cpu friend.
3. Add the shop for stuff ? you mean put RPG elements in a Beat 'em up ? what a retarded thing plus you already doesn't want to finish this turd twice (and its longer than an arcade RPG game) and they force you to grind for bonuses you don't even care about.
4. Extra modes, that no one cares,no one played wooooo i'm having a blast playing ballzzz in a streets of rage, its so much better making useless modes instead of, i dont know, make a REAL game ? Balance your mugen shit ? Make a better AI ? LEARN TO MAKE THE GAME SCREEN SIZE PROPERLY WITHOUT STRETCHING IT !!! Or get an artist instead of making atrocious PAINT art for the game.... Maybe pay some respect to the butchered SOR3 part ??? no they didn't care they hated it so it got the lazy treatment. Creating new sequences instead of adding Beta / Unused scenes the original devs judged useless but the fanboys are so retarded they wanna add them xD WOW 90% of this project is just reused stuff from the originals ! SO MUCH ORIGINALITY. !
5. oh yeah great one, the mods, cause "we sucks so much that we slip that in, so the community will do what we couldn't." The classic. The only argument i can say thank god they did that cause instead of having a Turd of a game we have a modified/patched version of this turd that somewhat makes it half decent and mods from really creative people trying to break their stupid code in order to make something actually good. But still using that as an argument of why SORR is good is just shooting your own foot with a gun. You admit they fucked up and Mods are better than the original project.
Nerf mania more like completely fuck up every balance system by putting too much characters from different games and allowing you to cheat option the shit outta it not even adding the fact they fucked with the AI too LOL.
Dude you're not even a SOR player don't even try to excuse poorly handled projects with real games.
The facts are here, no one play it anymore, it's dead compared to the flow of people still streaming, playing the shit out of the originals.
You're so stupid i bet you're a kid who plays Mugen shit games, my little pony, god even pokemon might be too hard for you, let's say Yu gi oh! LOL ~ how can you see failure in basic game design if you're not even playing the good games.
Streets of Rage 2 will be a classic forever. Excellent gameplay
This video should explode soon because unless SNESDrunk knew something we didn't, Streets of Rage 4 was just announced!!!! HYPEEE!!!
I assume the difficulty of the third game was changed as a concession to the rental market. It actually wasn't uncommon for games back then to have their difficulty increased when they were localised.
I'm glad you mentioned the music, it's just brilliant. The game feel is unparalleled in SoR 2 especially
Not too long ago I decided to throw in Streets of Rage and play with my younger brother who never had. We started with 2 and moved on to 3. Having a 20+ years fresh look at it: Streets of Rage 3's moveset is great, but the difficulty is goddamn brutal.
Game rentals were ilegal in Japan. Sega of America reacted to the legality of rentals by making their games harder, in the hopes customers wouldn’t be able to beat it over one retal period. Dynamite Heady is another example of this idiocy .
Ecco the Dolphin was also made stupidly hard for that reason.
Tybis That game is an exercise in frustration, controlling Ecco is super hard and I get stuck about ten minutes into it . I have no idea how to pass that first crystal. Not sure If I can blame Sega of America for that though...
I was wondering what was up with the Japanese version being easier.
Nintendo sued Blockbuster to make rental illegal in the US, but we all know that worked out...
I still play all 3 of them including The fan made remake. One thing to add is that the fan made took 10 years to make because it was designed from the ground up. Nothing in the game used any of Sega's SOR game in all 3. Even the music were remixed.
I go between a lot of beat ‘em ups on SNES and Genesis. These games are just so much better than any other beat ‘em Up. 3 honestly has the best mechanics...and it is a shame that 4 focused on the mechanics of 2.
Because now it's confirmed dotemu is working in the fourth installment of the series and we must be prepared to taste and analyze that!
fun fact turn out that during streets if rage 3's localization programming mistake occurred that permanently bumped the difficulty without anyone notice til it was too late
Who's watching this after the SOR4 announcement? Cant wait!
Ever since seeing how much you love the genre, this video is the only thing that I have wanted to see you do. Good stuff!
One way that part 2 is worse than part 1 is that it lacks team moves. In the first game, you can throw your partner towards the enemies and your partner can perform a very powerful flying attack. Or you can leap over your partner to perform a powerful flying attack in the other direction. That was brought back for part 3.
I pick Streets of Rage 2 as the best beat 'em up of all time, across all platforms. Though I do think the original Streets of Rage has a slightly better soundtrack.
Excellent timing, Streets of Rage 4 was just announced!
The international version of Streets or Rage 3 was more difficult because around the time of its release the video game rental market was taking off, if the game was less challenging it could be completed over a weekend and no one would bother purchasing it for full price.
*it was highly censored too and the music sucked on the 3rd outting* 👎
I prefer the soundtrack to SOR1 than the sequel. The second game has two outstanding tracks but it feels like the first game has more.
I can’t tell you the impact putting the first game on for the first time and hearing the music alongside the intro had. I was in awe.
I'd say they both equal for me. SOR 2 has more memorable tracks but that intro theme & first boss music drop in SOR 1.... 🤯
*the first game has lots of good music and the 2nd game only had 2 stinking good tunes agreed!* 👍
I don't think many TH-camrs could take a well known, much loved game like this and make an original, fun, entertaining video. Kudos to you for doing so. I learned a lot from it too: I had no idea about holding jump + up to negate a throw, or what the heck a star by your energy bar meant. I guess that's a problem with cart only collecting... no manuals!
Thanks for watching
In Bare Knuckle 3 you can play with the drag queen Ash, which is a boss that was cut from the american version.
The reason 3 was so much harder is rentals.
3:50 One of the best things about street of rage to is the music: Mixing the heart and soul from Chicago house with the dystopian cyberpunk-esque sound from Detroit techno really suits the concept of Street of rage. Fighting delinquency in the 90s has never been more fun.
A perfect introduction to the series in about 10 minutes. Great job! I know where to point people now.
Great job on this coming from a huge fan of this when I was a kid. But psssst they are making streets of rage 4 now!
How timely. They just announced Streets of Rage 4 :D
Streets of Rage 4 is also on all modern consoles, and it is absolutely superb.
And a few days after this video was released, Streets of Rage 4 is announced. What fortunate news yet unfortunate timing lol
Streets of rage 1 still holds up I still play mine
Streets of Rage 2 or Turtles in Time? Now that’s the real question
The first one still holds up I still play it
I missed this series when the genesis was out, and tried it on a strangers ds. Definitely one of the best genesis games/series I missed out on. Clearly I played too much sonic
The fact that you played the "moon beach theme” at the end earned my sub......#greatestbackgroundmusicever
Some things to bring up:
With regards to the atmosphere of SoR 2: The first stage boss battle is just plain epic. The music is gone for a moment and all you hear the falling rain as it slowly climbs in. You're in this dingy alley behind a bar and it just feels gritty. The boss tears off his shirt as he joins the fray. There's even this claustrophobic fight inside a moving truck with around ten on-screen opponents and this high adrenaline music.
With regards to the difficulty of SoR 3: They really did a number with one boss fight. I think he is called Jet. The bosses have "lives" meaning that you have to deplete their life bar a number of times. Usually it's around three or four at most. Jet has a whopping seven lives and he continually brings in more jet pack goons with his same move set. In the Japanese release he had three lives. The only way to have a fighting chance is to knock out two of the three goons and try to avoid the other since he tends to call them in when they're all beaten. There is a slight "hack" when you go in single player. Once you reach the last life of your last continue pull out the controller and plug it into the second port. Hit start and you can join in with a full stock of continues. Only way I managed to reach the brutal final stage.
I remember how amazing was playing this game on my cousin's video game, since I didn't have a Mega Drive. Excellent review! Hugs from Brazil. 😂
the video game gods must have heard our prayers, there's a new streets of rage game being to be released soon.
I grew up playing the living shit outta the SOR games and still do, especially now that SOR4 is out so I guess I just never really thought of it but yeah... you're right. The last level of SOR1 is absolutely fucking INSANE. I like it though. Both just as a level due to it's design, atmosphere and music and I also love it's design principal. ANYBODY can slog their way to the end of SOR1 on easy or normal playing shitty and reckless, cop-calling the shit outta every boss to kill them but then once the last level the game's like "Oh sheeeeeiitt, kid! Looks like you're gonna actually have to learn to play the game with some semblance of skill and technique! Can't just bomb your way through this one! ;D"
Too, funny, “Because they’re good games, you idiot!” and “Muh streets of rage!” Lol
Awesome video! There were a few things not mentioned in the video that obviously most would hardly even know about this series like the team attack, being able to land from being thrown and even (recently discovered) being able to break some grabs if your fast enough. There was also a japan only remake of SoR1 ported to mobile phones that oddly enough added some more features the series never had like cancelling your combos into throws and alternative combos for example.
I missed the mention of the landing from being thrown, my bad!
Anyone ever use to chill on a Saturday morning and just let the SOR2 sound test play all the BGM tracks like background music for life? Anyone?..........anyone?..............shit.......
RLJG zr069 listen to it all the time specially the remake ones...too damn good still to this day
@@shahrukhkabirantor3980 I agree
@@rljgzr069 me too, since 91. All 3 games
@@kyronwilkins nice. Since I got the Master Sytem II "Fighting Edition" that came with SOR2 back in the day, I have an entirely different affinity for the game than i di for the first and the third games. All amazing in their own right, SOR2 is widely considered the best of the three and I agree. Here's to hoping SOR4 actually gets made.
i loved the bar level music. so smooth
Really digging your vids and synopsis. And I hope you have a great rest of your day as well, thank you!
I remember asking for the first Streets of Rage at a flea market because I assumed it was the best. The guy looked for a bit then said "I've only got the 2nd one". I was like "...fuck it, why not". One of the best decisions I've made. Streets of Rage 2 is my favorite Genesis game ever, and I've played it so many times. Such an amazing classic!
1 and 2 are some of the best video games I played with my friends during the 90s. Aww.. and I almost forgot how amazing and catchy the soundtrack is!
and ironically there is now a Streets Of Rage 4 - talk about timing
I hear the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack in my dreams and I've *never even played the game.* I've played the first one quite a bit but I only played it for the first time about a year ago from the time of writing, I haven't moved on to the second one yet because I loved the first so much I decided I wanted to fully master it before moving on. Actually before I played it I always thought I kinda hated beat em ups and was only checking it out because I really liked the style of the game on a surface level, but it single handedly convinced me that the genre is fantastic.
I do believe the Japanese versions of all these games (and all games on the collection, in general) are on the SEGA Genesis Classics for PS4 and XBOX ONE, so that's actually really good to know about Streets of Rage 3
Streets of rage was the epitome of 90s beat em ups. My hope is that the team behind the Yakuza games revives this series, it can even still take place in the 90s!
Still my favorite beat em up series! Nice transition to other platforms as well! Video games are awesome and the Streets of rage series is legendary! The music for Streets of rage 2 is chock full of classics! Great video Drunk!
So much nostalgia for this series!!! I remember having friends stay over during summer break renting streets of rage 1&2 and staying up all night. The streets need cleaning they are full of rage!!!👊🎮👍
The ninja who commits suicide at 1.25! He must have felt bad for killing Adam. 🤣🤣
Thank you very much sir! Bc of this video, I discovered SOR Remake. Happy to be a Buy Me a Coffee supporter 😀
My introduction to 1 was on Sega CD and then 2 on Dreamcast and 3 on PS2. It felt weird being introduced to the series this way rather than on Genesis itself. I never knew that Dreamcast’s sound is warped and still find that version nostalgic.
Great analysis, the stage progression in the first game was the best
Thanks for mentioning Fighting Force. It's actually my 2nd favorite SoR game. I was thinking to myself that nobody ever seems to mention that it's the unofficial SoR4 as I was watching your video. And then lo and behold.
It's very nice to have well-produced minidocs of games.
Great video! Always enjoy a new snes drunk to start the day!
Hey, I play Beat Em' Ups for the story! With Streets of Rage 1-it's always amazing how that clear screen attack never hurts you! I've never played Streets of Rage 3 though-so it would be interesting to see how challenging the game is (I wonder how challenging it is spamming jump kicks attacks-as opposed to not spamming jump kick attacks)
Thanks for doing a great review on the Streets of Rage series for Sega Genesis!! As well as bringing up some other games there after!
It's like a mix of fighting game between Super Double Dragon meets Final Fight 3 on SNES, both means fighting it out on the streets, if not enough, add TMNT IV Turtles in Time and Batman Return...
Batman Return might only be one player, but Batman had a bunch of gadgets including something looking like a nuke, and on top of that, in Batman Return, you get to drive the Batmobile at one stage similar to the likes of F-Zero...
And yesterday there was an official trailer/announcement for a Streets of Rage 4!!