2D Beat 'em Ups that aren't Streets of Rage et al

can’t say the vanillaware gaze is winning me over there either

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i dont trust adults making things about sexy schoolgirls anymore

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There’s literally a stretch goal for Adult Content.

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i notice a lot of sexy school boys content nowadays, eg haikyuu* and like a manga / anime about boys swimming in speedos or something. *my young cousin plays volleyball so this is a personal concern of mine

perhaps the real answer to reversing the effects of the Grownup Gaze is giving students access to the necessary media/software tools to make things about sexy adults!

i dont trust adults making things about sexy schoolchildren anymore

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Brought to you by the guys who made Double Dragon and River City Ransom.

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this game fucks

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getting a bit weirded out by folks who are conflating the developer/publisher and thinking that the SoR4 team is working on this

those konami orch hits are just pure sound candy i love them

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is this better or worse than telling people it’s by a chunk of the Scott Pilgrim team

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Sweet can’t wait to replay one level to optimally grind Pizza Coins to buy my special attacks

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See I can’t hear the orchestra hits in this and actually find the music too modern (uh circa 10 years ago) chiptune busy.

fire dragon fist master xiaomei is getting a switch release!

i reviewed the pc version a while ago and liked it a lot

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game continues to look impossibly good i can’t wait to play it at a yet unspecified date in 2022

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Well there is a real hole there for Casey Jones ain’t there in that key art.

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Are the DnD beatemups good? I remember liking them when I was into emulation, but I always wanted actual RPG-numbers-go-up to go with them, too

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They are, and the collection that got released of them is decent, though you can just MAME them easily enough, I think. Not really a lot of RPG numbers to them, though, iirc.

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they look great! and they’re ok i guess. even moreso than most beat em ups, they’re a lot better with more people

if you want more numbers go up, then guardian heroes is probably the best example of that in beat em ups. and if you want to see the dnd games’ inventory management vastly expanded upon, then look into the knights of valour games.

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They are very long. Like a playthrough is 90-120 minutes. Absurdly long for an arcade game.