@@FEEDMEKITTENS dude people who say that piss me off, (all '3d' games are actually 2d) they are from our perspective yes, but we have the ability to walk about in other ways than just straight, and the game has a developed physics engine for so
Hi. For the chapters to work, include 0:00 - Intro. Also, the first minute's "zero" is not needed, so do: 2:57 for example, for the formatting. I had the same issue on one of my videos. Cheers! GREAT REVIEW VIDEO! Really awesome.
I don't want these as chapters, that's why they're in a comment and not the description. I like putting each entry as four numbers so it looks uniform. Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Like we say in Brazil: "Caralho, puta vídeo foda!" That means: "Wow, you did a fantastic job highlighting all those awesome points of the game's animations and ending with this great details of the light." There's a lot of great info to us study here. Thank you for this video.
I'm surprised you kept this video under 20 minutes. There is so much to talk about with what the design team had to do to make everything look as amazing as it is. Buy Streets of Rage 4 people. Also you snuck in a dev interview? Cheeky play Dan.
This is a beautiful game. Like really it just looks like years was put into just making the art that's familiar but still unique. The backgrounds are also amazing and it seems that everything from signs to the lighting that care and love was put into this game.
Great work, Mr R! I think there are many fighting game examples where the characters don't feel like they are part of their environment and this video does a great job of explaining how SOR manages this so simply but to great effect.
You think I'm going to leave a comment about how amazing this channel is and how great the editing is. How the topics are interesting and always avert expectations. No it's the simple things like that voice over that makes this channel the masterpiece it is! Great work as always.
This game I was unsure about how I felt from early footage, I wasn’t really feeling the more stylized artstyle over the old type sprite work... but then... it freakin came out and I played it! SOOO AWESOME, I WANT MORE💕 The animation, the music cues. Gawd i love this game.
Sometimes, games go above and beyond with their art. I love when games make use of cool lighting and I love it even more when 2D assets use it. It’s funny how you’ll get hand drawn things like this be lit to look like it’s in 3D and then 3D models in Guilty Gear lit independent from their environment to look 2D. This stuff is really cool.
Haven't been this in love with 2d graphics in a series since Street fighter 3 and Garou Mark of the Wolves. I had to pick this up day one and on the off chance they do DLC, I'm going to fully support their development team.
I can't speak for everyone... but SoR 4 looks so good to me because it's been what? 25 years since we had a new game? What this game had to do, to please me. exist...
I always thought that Streets of Rage would make for a good animated series, with it's episodic plot structure (each round being like an episode) and serious but comic booky tone akin to the 1992 X-Men Cartoon or Batman TAS. Just imagine a Streets of Rage: The Animated Series with Genndy Tartakovsky as a director and the SOR4 team on art style, with scripts by the talents of Batman TAS and/or X-Men TAS. I'd watch the heck out of that!
I'm so in love with the graphics. Especially the animations are brilliant. The standing loop of Blaze is just a pure joy to watch. You really feel the mass of her clothes and body (yes, of course even her breasts). But also how she throws back her hair to restart the animations brings in a little variation and personality, to fool you she's really human and no computer product.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Mind being more specific? Being a sort of Tori connaisseur myself, I'm failing to see in what way. EDIT: Already getting downvoted? _Jeez!_
Well, I suppose I'm taking more about his Wonderboy artwork, but I think the eyes in these characters are definitely Toriyama-like? Perhaps these don't show exact Toriyama qualities, but he was a huge influence on Ben's work.
My top 3 favorite games are all animated/sprite based. And it's because of the respect I have for all the hard work put into it. 1. Streets of Rage 4 2. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike 3. Streets of Rage 2
Immediatly when I saw the gameplay trailer, I wanted it all of it. Just all of it all over me. And I'm not even a fan of the series. Just 2d visuals and the 80s style
I'm not gonna scroll through the comments to see if someone has already mentioned this but I've gotta say that the stain-glass color cast on the characters that happens towards the end of the game is absolutely spectacular!! This game is amazing.
The animated cutscenes were directed by the French animator Balak, so if you like those, I highly recommend checking out the animated series "Lastman" which he was the co-creator of and storyboard artist for. (There's a second season for the show in the works right now!)
3:10 I noticed a similar animation technique all throughout Skullgirls, and that game has been around since 2013, But it's quite prevalent on the train stage, especially when another train passes us in the background. But yes, let's all gush over the comic book style that permeates throughout this game
I hope you find the time to talk about all those broached topics. This Game is just Perfection in nearly every way and thus my Game of the Year so far. I initially bought SoR4 mostly for the Multiplayer, since I had faith in the Developers because of their amazing work with Wonderboy the Dragons Trap. Needless to say I ended up grinding the Game like crazy in Singleplayer and am eagerly waiting for an excuse to dive back in.
Ikr? Maybe my opinion is biased due to the fact that I've always loved cartoons, especially Dragon Ball Z, so I personally think that SOR4 looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm so glad they didn't go for a realistic style or pixel art. And to anyone talking shit about the art style - that's literally what original SOR concept art looked like, they just didn't have the hardware to make it look like that back then
A very creative way of making those light effects. I was thinking it was some kind of height map for each frame (probably would require some absurd extra work) From the little I've touched in shaders, this effect (or a simplified version of it) might be rather easy to implement using something like the Shader Graph in Unity.
Comic dotshading is a criminally underrated style choice, especially for combat-focused games. As a side note, Joe Musashi of Shinobi was originally planned to be a secret unlockable character; that was turned down but since SoR4 got *such* a hot reception, I can easily see DLC characters in the pipeline. Would love to see what characters like Gilius Thunderhead and the Altered Beast would look like in this visual style.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy I've been considering this visual style for Mortal Kombat as a way to veer away from the uncanny valley and the honestly really gross fatalities that are apparently hard for the animators to stomach, while also making the series more visually interesting. Kills two birds with one stone.
The artstyle and animation of SOR4 feels like a natural evolution of a series that has been dormant for years. It looks beautiful. You're nearly at 100k, Dan. Keep up at these amazing videos! They're always great.
Another great looking game to add to my long, long list! These devs are masters of remaking a game with amazing art and remaining faithful to the original. You can really feel the love thise guys put into their work!
I've never played a Streets of Rage before but the impressive animation of this title makes me wanna! I pitched my Sonic fan game to a musician called OSC this week and he told me it reminded him of Wonderboy that you mentioned. I can't wait to get my hands on proper animation equipment at Uni
This game is great for new players and series veterans alike. Although beware, it does briefly mention the previous games. It isn’t a huge part of the story so it’s not a big deal but if you do start with this then check out the older games too.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy when you're playing the game it hurts your eyes. After 5 mins your eyes fatigue; everyone who plays with me locally says the same thing. It's a great game but it cant be played....because of eye fatigue. not sure what it is. maybe it's the colors or lights or maybe the information on the screen. I have 20/20 just for reference and have played other video games for much longer without this issue.
Because cartoons are made with a paycheck in mind. Games like Streets of Rage 4 are passion projects made with love. Modern cartoons are rushed out without thought just for money.
I disagree there, it's a common argument I see that never holds water. Obviously it's all down to personal taste, but I think you're confusing "rushed to make money" with "working to a budget". Teen Titans Go is probably an example I'd use to show how tight a production schedule can be, thinking efficiently such as having characters mostly at 3/4 angles and such. I mean, this is no different to what was called *Limited Animation* during the 60s and 70s with Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Scooby Doo, and is still used in modern anime. But the "Cal-Arts" you refer to has tons of thought and effort put into it. No piece of media is put out "without thought", it all takes time, money, passion and resource.
You've inspired me to go play this game now. I remember vaguely enjoying streets of rage some 20 odd years ago and this looks like some keto-destroying eye candy. Can't wait.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy I grew up playing Double Dragon, Altered Beasts and so on. Those games did the same. Didn't keep me from playing them and that's the same for SOR 4. It does look really good though and gameplay is stellar.
That's a staple of the genre man, and it makes sense to do it that way. You can't expect them to make hundreds of unique enemies in a beat em up. That would be way too time consuming.
@@orlanzo2621 I've been playing beat'em up games a long time and I know how that goes but this game was ridiculous with it. Way too many and way too repetitive for my liking.
This game was such a wonderful experience for me. Streets of Rage 2 has been my favourite game for over 25 years, and I was very sceptical that a new team could come anywhere close to surpassing that game (since no other scrolling beat em up has been able to). I'm so happy to say that they improved on Streets of Rage 2 in ways I never even thought of, to the point it's actually hard to go back to it after getting accustomed to the combo counter, wall bounce and air hits, soft landing from being hit, catching weapons mid air after throwing them at someone, and controller vibration. It's such an excellent game that feels like it was made just for me. I never needed another Streets of Rage game, but this is exactly what I would've wanted from a sequel.
Streets of Rage 4 is a game in which I really want to play but I don't have the money so... Ouch. To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the art style but I like the details they added. Great analysis!
100%! The pixel art of yore managed to give it a tough, realistic vibe. This colorful & bouncy contemporary artstyle simply emanates a Saturday morning cartoon vibe. Just compare the OG dark no-BS titlescreen with this one’s rainbow & sparkly one. How is this drastic shift in tonality never questioned?
@@Target00smile Each of the Streets of Rage games have different artstyles in its sprite work, and it was only Streets of Rage 3 that was going for a grittier more realistic art style with its sprites. Streets 1 and 2 are far more cartoony, especially 2
@@SerenGetter You think so? I don’t remember much about SoR2 but I’ve played the 1st one to death and its slick, dark, cool, no-BS lets-clean-up-this-run-down-city aesthetic never looked _cartoony_ to me. Especially since it wasn’t as bright & saturated as this entry and its characters had approximately-realistic features instead of stylized.
All my initial frustrations, fears and doubts about the direction this game decided to take were all put to rest when it finally released. They done an incredible job and I was more than happy to be wrong about it. Stunning game and a worthy successor. Great video.
Whatever the gameplay flaws and content lack...SOR4 looks, moves and sounds gorgeous! I am surprised you never touched anything related to the works from Vanillaware such as Odin Sphere or Dragon's Crown...Both gorgeous looking and superbly animated.
They're wonderful looking games, I just need to play them a bit more to get a feel for what I want to talk about with them. But agreed, they look excellent.
Thanks for the video I still believe the developers dont understand or even comprehen how huge SOR4 is as a game they crrated a monster game they just need to add more content to it!!!!
I think it's a very proud moment for the developers to be able to take on such a beloved series, but I don't think anyone who begins these things ever really comprehend just how big something will be. I reckon DLC could be on the cards!
I'm not a fan at all of the rather "French" art style in Streets of Rage 4. It's originally a Japanese game series which basically says it should look anime/Manga to me (as it does in the first three games--and beautifully at that), and that's the aesthetic I want to see in it now too. The more clumsy painted brush stroke outlines mixed with a more basic "Flash" look for the characters and the almost rushed look to the backgrounds just falls way short of the level of artistry I expected from this series in 2020.
No idea what you mean by _"Flash" look for the characters,_ what sort of Flash games have you been playing!? No Flash game looks this good. *"Clumsy painted brush stroke outlines"* it's just called textured, it's an artistic choice. The backgrounds weren't rushed at all, I think the game looks beautiful for 2020. I think it all looks fine, I wouldn't say (even though it _is_ French) that it looks particularly French, nor _"should"_ it look Japanese. It's fine to not like the look of it, obviously. But it's nothing like a Flash game.
Profits from the video were donated to charity.
1994-3D Graphics! If you don't do it, you're stuck in the past!!!
2020-Look at those gorgeous 2D Graphics!
It is pretty much like that, haha
I'm always a sucker for 2d visuals in games , and this game is certainly no exception.
Aaaackshually, all games played on a screen are 2d!
(I'm just kidding, I'm not actually that big of a pedantic douchwaddle)
@@FEEDMEKITTENS dude people who say that piss me off, (all '3d' games are actually 2d) they are from our perspective yes, but we have the ability to walk about in other ways than just straight, and the game has a developed physics engine for so
He literally said he was kidding, chill my dude.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy oh i was just saying, i wasn't hating 👌🏿
Music listing:
00:02 - Character Select (SoR4)
02:57 - Lift the Ground (SoR4)
05:10 - Chow Time Chinatown (SoR4)
Hi. For the chapters to work, include 0:00 - Intro. Also, the first minute's "zero" is not needed, so do: 2:57 for example, for the formatting.
I had the same issue on one of my videos. Cheers! GREAT REVIEW VIDEO! Really awesome.
I don't want these as chapters, that's why they're in a comment and not the description.
I like putting each entry as four numbers so it looks uniform.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Like we say in Brazil: "Caralho, puta vídeo foda!" That means: "Wow, you did a fantastic job highlighting all those awesome points of the game's animations and ending with this great details of the light."
There's a lot of great info to us study here. Thank you for this video.
...I speak Portuguese your translation is.....incorrect....
@@taylorrobinson5572 because it was localized ;)
I'm surprised you kept this video under 20 minutes.
There is so much to talk about with what the design team had to do to make everything look as amazing as it is. Buy Streets of Rage 4 people.
Also you snuck in a dev interview? Cheeky play Dan.
Yeah, I keep those under my hat and don't like to brag.
Yeah, I could talk ages about it all, but I only have so much time 😅
This is a beautiful game.
Like really it just looks like years was put into just making the art that's familiar but still unique.
The backgrounds are also amazing and it seems that everything from signs to the lighting that care and love was put into this game.
Great work, Mr R! I think there are many fighting game examples where the characters don't feel like they are part of their environment and this video does a great job of explaining how SOR manages this so simply but to great effect.
Thanks Mr. Bill
Yeah, it's just small things that make a big difference, I find.
You think I'm going to leave a comment about how amazing this channel is and how great the editing is. How the topics are interesting and always avert expectations. No it's the simple things like that voice over that makes this channel the masterpiece it is! Great work as always.
This game I was unsure about how I felt from early footage, I wasn’t really feeling the more stylized artstyle over the old type sprite work... but then... it freakin came out and I played it! SOOO AWESOME, I WANT MORE💕 The animation, the music cues. Gawd i love this game.
Sometimes, games go above and beyond with their art. I love when games make use of cool lighting and I love it even more when 2D assets use it. It’s funny how you’ll get hand drawn things like this be lit to look like it’s in 3D and then 3D models in Guilty Gear lit independent from their environment to look 2D. This stuff is really cool.
And yet there's still people hating on the new artstyle and wishing they just kept the old retro look for everything... xD
Ren Ookami what???? How???
Well you can't please everyone
Haven't been this in love with 2d graphics in a series since Street fighter 3 and Garou Mark of the Wolves. I had to pick this up day one and on the off chance they do DLC, I'm going to fully support their development team.
Dude I wish you'd talk about this game for hours ^^' Please explain how this is barely a 6 minutes video!!
Thank you.
I love those lightning effects so much. It's rare that a 2D game is so "real" to me.
I can't speak for everyone... but SoR 4 looks so good to me because it's been what? 25 years since we had a new game? What this game had to do, to please me.
exist...
The animations are so good. Like Street Fighter 3 good!
20 years from now people will still be saying this game looks great. its not going to age really at all
I always thought that Streets of Rage would make for a good animated series, with it's episodic plot structure (each round being like an episode) and serious but comic booky tone akin to the 1992 X-Men Cartoon or Batman TAS.
Just imagine a Streets of Rage: The Animated Series with Genndy Tartakovsky as a director and the SOR4 team on art style, with scripts by the talents of Batman TAS and/or X-Men TAS. I'd watch the heck out of that!
I'm so in love with the graphics. Especially the animations are brilliant. The standing loop of Blaze is just a pure joy to watch. You really feel the mass of her clothes and body (yes, of course even her breasts). But also how she throws back her hair to restart the animations brings in a little variation and personality, to fool you she's really human and no computer product.
I really thought for a while that Double Dragon Neon was gonna be the "prettiest" new beat-'em-up and then... wow.
Wut? There's nothing Toriyamaesque about B. Fiquet's style! But I do like how the cityscapes' lights don't even flicker lol.
There is a little bit
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Mind being more specific? Being a sort of Tori connaisseur myself, I'm failing to see in what way.
EDIT: Already getting downvoted? _Jeez!_
Well, I suppose I'm taking more about his Wonderboy artwork, but I think the eyes in these characters are definitely Toriyama-like?
Perhaps these don't show exact Toriyama qualities, but he was a huge influence on Ben's work.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy In the iconic words of Ryo Hazuki: _"I see."_
Found the exact video I needed first try, you're a legend
My top 3 favorite games are all animated/sprite based. And it's because of the respect I have for all the hard work put into it.
1. Streets of Rage 4
2. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
3. Streets of Rage 2
KOF 13 looks amazing as well.
As many times I've played this game I didn't even notice how good the lighting was, thanks for pointing that out 👍
Like I *NEED* to know how they do their edge lighting
Streets Of Rage 4 The Platinum Standard Of Old School Beat'em Ups Just Saying.
Immediatly when I saw the gameplay trailer, I wanted it all of it. Just all of it all over me. And I'm not even a fan of the series. Just 2d visuals and the 80s style
The gameplay and music are just as good as the visuals. Please consider playing this series.
I'm not gonna scroll through the comments to see if someone has already mentioned this but I've gotta say that the stain-glass color cast on the characters that happens towards the end of the game is absolutely spectacular!! This game is amazing.
The animated cutscenes were directed by the French animator Balak, so if you like those, I highly recommend checking out the animated series "Lastman" which he was the co-creator of and storyboard artist for. (There's a second season for the show in the works right now!)
Fantastic info, thank you!
You must be joking. Are we really getting a second season to the underwatched masterpiece that is Lastman?!!!
@@juantoledo5248 Release date is sometime this year!
You should talk about King of fighters series
I've talked about Third Strike already, I'm not sure keen to cover something similar again so soon
Yea KOF 13 in particular. Still one of my favorite looking fighting games ever.
3:10 I noticed a similar animation technique all throughout Skullgirls, and that game has been around since 2013, But it's quite prevalent on the train stage, especially when another train passes us in the background.
But yes, let's all gush over the comic book style that permeates throughout this game
Who do I need to speak to to get this team to make a Comix Zone sequel?!
Streets of Rage 4 really does feel like an over the top animated movie!
I hope you find the time to talk about all those broached topics.
This Game is just Perfection in nearly every way and thus my Game of the Year so far.
I initially bought SoR4 mostly for the Multiplayer, since I had faith in the Developers because of their amazing work with Wonderboy the Dragons Trap.
Needless to say I ended up grinding the Game like crazy in Singleplayer and am eagerly waiting for an excuse to dive back in.
Plz do a animation analysis of the game flashback for snes and sega gen
I've got plans for that, yeah
Ikr? Maybe my opinion is biased due to the fact that I've always loved cartoons, especially Dragon Ball Z, so I personally think that SOR4 looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm so glad they didn't go for a realistic style or pixel art.
And to anyone talking shit about the art style - that's literally what original SOR concept art looked like, they just didn't have the hardware to make it look like that back then
Animation video about Banner Saga is a MUST.
A very creative way of making those light effects. I was thinking it was some kind of height map for each frame (probably would require some absurd extra work)
From the little I've touched in shaders, this effect (or a simplified version of it) might be rather easy to implement using something like the Shader Graph in Unity.
Yeah, I feel like it's a simple but very effective technique just to tie everything together a bit more
How do they manage to do that lightning thing? Normal maps on the 2D sprites?
I touch on it briefly later on, but I think it's even simpler than that, just offsetting silhouettes.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Thanks for the answer!
I really want to play this game but I also really want to save my money for the ps5 also
We neeeeeed you to do a Valorant episode. The animation in that game is crazy good
I was waiting for you to do this Dan
Comic dotshading is a criminally underrated style choice, especially for combat-focused games. As a side note, Joe Musashi of Shinobi was originally planned to be a secret unlockable character; that was turned down but since SoR4 got *such* a hot reception, I can easily see DLC characters in the pipeline. Would love to see what characters like Gilius Thunderhead and the Altered Beast would look like in this visual style.
Ah man, I feel like this is totally paving the way for these sorts of games
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy I've been considering this visual style for Mortal Kombat as a way to veer away from the uncanny valley and the honestly really gross fatalities that are apparently hard for the animators to stomach, while also making the series more visually interesting. Kills two birds with one stone.
I had no idea there was a new "Streets of Rage" game, but the fact that there is (and it looks this good) makes me very happy!!!
FINAL CRASH!!
Rayman origin, legend and sor4 look better than most of the AAA games.
Hey did great art wise. I wonder if they'll make a GDC talk about it some time
Awesome video as always!
The artstyle and animation of SOR4 feels like a natural evolution of a series that has been dormant for years. It looks beautiful.
You're nearly at 100k, Dan. Keep up at these amazing videos! They're always great.
I'd love to see this done with Capcom's Aliens vs Predator.
Another great looking game to add to my long, long list!
These devs are masters of remaking a game with amazing art and remaining faithful to the original. You can really feel the love thise guys put into their work!
I foresee them doing more remakes like this!
I imagine the devs making a Comix Zone remake with a similar art style. It would work very well!
Please make a video of Edmund Mcmillen The End is Night!
I've never played a Streets of Rage before but the impressive animation of this title makes me wanna!
I pitched my Sonic fan game to a musician called OSC this week and he told me it reminded him of Wonderboy that you mentioned. I can't wait to get my hands on proper animation equipment at Uni
This game is great for new players and series veterans alike. Although beware, it does briefly mention the previous games. It isn’t a huge part of the story so it’s not a big deal but if you do start with this then check out the older games too.
Streets of rage 4 is the perfect embodiment of the quote "Keep it simple".
Love this game and it's style so much, a great evolution
Virgin Battletoads reboot vs. Chad Streets of Rage 4
Can’t believe I haven’t come across this channel before! Just subbed.
Thank you!
Streets of rage 4 is a master piece in my book from a 90's gamer like myself I'm very grateful
This game is the true definition of a fun video game and thats what video games are supposed to be at the end of the day.
could someone tell me how many fps are the characters in the game?
It's likely a mixture of 12/24, and the actual on-screen movement will be 60 like the game itself.
Dude....You need to do Prince of Persia animation. I thought for sure you would have done that already
Yeah I'm thinking about how to do a rotoscope episode.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy .....so I did NOT think you would respond to this. Thanks. Kay, bye
thats nice and all but the game literally strains my eyes. i cant play it for more then 5 mins without feeling sleepy or visually exhausted.
How do you mean?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy when you're playing the game it hurts your eyes. After 5 mins your eyes fatigue; everyone who plays with me locally says the same thing. It's a great game but it cant be played....because of eye fatigue. not sure what it is. maybe it's the colors or lights or maybe the information on the screen. I have 20/20 just for reference and have played other video games for much longer without this issue.
We now live in a time where our games look better than our cartoons.
Because cartoons are made with a paycheck in mind. Games like Streets of Rage 4 are passion projects made with love. Modern cartoons are rushed out without thought just for money.
Which modern cartoons are rushed out without thought?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Dunno what 'without thought' means. But Cal-Arts is straight up awful so that's one.
Video Game Animation Study
Not all of them.
I disagree there, it's a common argument I see that never holds water.
Obviously it's all down to personal taste, but I think you're confusing "rushed to make money" with "working to a budget".
Teen Titans Go is probably an example I'd use to show how tight a production schedule can be, thinking efficiently such as having characters mostly at 3/4 angles and such.
I mean, this is no different to what was called *Limited Animation* during the 60s and 70s with Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Scooby Doo, and is still used in modern anime.
But the "Cal-Arts" you refer to has tons of thought and effort put into it.
No piece of media is put out "without thought", it all takes time, money, passion and resource.
I actually wished u analyzed this game down to the bone
If I had the time I'd have loved to
Long story short, it’s good art
You've inspired me to go play this game now. I remember vaguely enjoying streets of rage some 20 odd years ago and this looks like some keto-destroying eye candy. Can't wait.
Looks cool & plays nice. I just don't like the recycled enemies looking exactly the same over & over. I find that kind of lazy.
Eh, yeah I found that a problem in the originals too, to be honest.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy I grew up playing Double Dragon, Altered Beasts and so on. Those games did the same. Didn't keep me from playing them and that's the same for SOR 4. It does look really good though and gameplay is stellar.
That's a staple of the genre man, and it makes sense to do it that way. You can't expect them to make hundreds of unique enemies in a beat em up. That would be way too time consuming.
@@orlanzo2621 I've been playing beat'em up games a long time and I know how that goes but this game was ridiculous with it. Way too many and way too repetitive for my liking.
The updated art style fits the series like a glove. Everyone's a bit older, the city is a bit more dilapidated. The game looks and plays fantastic!!
Thank you 👍👍👍👍👍🌹♥️👍
U forgot about rain. On the hallway I saw rain
This game was such a wonderful experience for me. Streets of Rage 2 has been my favourite game for over 25 years, and I was very sceptical that a new team could come anywhere close to surpassing that game (since no other scrolling beat em up has been able to). I'm so happy to say that they improved on Streets of Rage 2 in ways I never even thought of, to the point it's actually hard to go back to it after getting accustomed to the combo counter, wall bounce and air hits, soft landing from being hit, catching weapons mid air after throwing them at someone, and controller vibration. It's such an excellent game that feels like it was made just for me.
I never needed another Streets of Rage game, but this is exactly what I would've wanted from a sequel.
I like how the animati has this comic book style the lighting, shading, and character design showing that style.
Well I was hoping you'd join us in gushing over this game for hours, but this video is just 5 minutes long.
Haven't got the time, unfortunately.
this is what i like to imagine any remake of a sprite based game should look like
I could watch your videos all day long
Whoa, what a excellent video!
Great video as always.
Streets of Rage 4 is a game in which I really want to play but I don't have the money so... Ouch.
To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the art style but I like the details they added.
Great analysis!
Amazing material, thank you!
This game is phenomenal. They need to make a part 5!!!
you need to work on your speech mate
What do you mean?
Sold
The big issue is that it doesn´t feel violent or cool anymore, really childish vibe, even if it´s well made.
Not sure what you mean.
100%! The pixel art of yore managed to give it a tough, realistic vibe. This colorful & bouncy contemporary artstyle simply emanates a Saturday morning cartoon vibe. Just compare the OG dark no-BS titlescreen with this one’s rainbow & sparkly one. How is this drastic shift in tonality never questioned?
It feels finds to me.
@@Target00smile Each of the Streets of Rage games have different artstyles in its sprite work, and it was only Streets of Rage 3 that was going for a grittier more realistic art style with its sprites. Streets 1 and 2 are far more cartoony, especially 2
@@SerenGetter You think so? I don’t remember much about SoR2 but I’ve played the 1st one to death and its slick, dark, cool, no-BS lets-clean-up-this-run-down-city aesthetic never looked _cartoony_ to me. Especially since it wasn’t as bright & saturated as this entry and its characters had approximately-realistic features instead of stylized.
I want this company to remake Golden Axe and then I want them to take what they've learned and give me SOR5
I can totally foresee LizardCube being Sega's 2nd party dev team, I reckon they'll work on more lost forgotten Sega titles.
They also seem to be interested in Shinobi. Which would be cool too
Holy moly the animation in this game is incredible!
All my initial frustrations, fears and doubts about the direction this game decided to take were all put to rest when it finally released. They done an incredible job and I was more than happy to be wrong about it. Stunning game and a worthy successor. Great video.
Somehow you still managed to fit in so many things to gush about in SOR4 in about 5 min. That is impressive good sir!
Love you guys.
what about enemy AI, oh wait animators doesn't do that... but programmers
The truth is everyone loves it, when qoute white characters and black characters unite to kick butt the streets of rage is really about team work.
Whatever the gameplay flaws and content lack...SOR4 looks, moves and sounds gorgeous!
I am surprised you never touched anything related to the works from Vanillaware such as Odin Sphere or Dragon's Crown...Both gorgeous looking and superbly animated.
They're wonderful looking games, I just need to play them a bit more to get a feel for what I want to talk about with them.
But agreed, they look excellent.
Thanks for the video I still believe the developers dont understand or even comprehen how huge SOR4 is as a game they crrated a monster game they just need to add more content to it!!!!
I think it's a very proud moment for the developers to be able to take on such a beloved series, but I don't think anyone who begins these things ever really comprehend just how big something will be.
I reckon DLC could be on the cards!
great vid. can you please do an animation study of guard crush's previous game streets of fury ex :)
Thanks. Haven't played streets of fury.
I'm not a fan at all of the rather "French" art style in Streets of Rage 4. It's originally a Japanese game series which basically says it should look anime/Manga to me (as it does in the first three games--and beautifully at that), and that's the aesthetic I want to see in it now too. The more clumsy painted brush stroke outlines mixed with a more basic "Flash" look for the characters and the almost rushed look to the backgrounds just falls way short of the level of artistry I expected from this series in 2020.
No idea what you mean by _"Flash" look for the characters,_ what sort of Flash games have you been playing!? No Flash game looks this good.
*"Clumsy painted brush stroke outlines"* it's just called textured, it's an artistic choice. The backgrounds weren't rushed at all, I think the game looks beautiful for 2020.
I think it all looks fine, I wouldn't say (even though it _is_ French) that it looks particularly French, nor _"should"_ it look Japanese.
It's fine to not like the look of it, obviously. But it's nothing like a Flash game.
Akira Toriyama is a terrible designer
You _really_ think so?
Love you too.
... Shouldn't you be on break instead of making awesome monthly videos???
Catch you next time cheeky buggers le- ???????????????what. 5:51
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Farewell, thanks for watching!
It's SO good looking.