I guess it can be a belt-scroller if it has to WHATEVER JUST GIVE ME COP BLOOD
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FBI if you’re still watching this is not real this is a HYPOTHETICAL VIDEO GAME
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MC a serial cop that only cops other cops
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Too late, the screws are already tightening; closing in for the final twist.
I felt like the Manhunt games needed some cop slaughter. Maybe they had it and I just never got that far because the whole thing felt so contrived.
fobble doo :333333333333
robert yang’s artist statement 4 his game Dream Hard has a relevant bit that i know the SOR4 team has not read or thought abt
… Streets of Rage games often have anti-capitalist populist narratives which argue that underserved urban neighborhoods are the intentional products of corrupt governments and the greedy corporate elite. … As you fight your way through city streets and industrial zones, you must defeat all the corrupt cops and street gangs united by a corporate crime boss named Mr. X. … The fan favorite Streets of Rage 2 also features a stage progression which is clearly about how automation will affect the working class. This isn’t an accident, this is an intentionally constructed Japanese game industry retelling of US politics to a US audience.
i feel inspired to make my own personal streets of rage 4 now
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This is broadly applicable to late 70s and 80s action/crime/cop movies as well and it’s the biggest reason they’re so good
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I can’t really remember why exactly I was receptive to it (I’m afraid it might’ve been because they were unapologetic woody allen fans but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, you get what you need) but as I’ve said here before I feel fortunate that one of the forums I spent the most time on in high school was ruthless reviews, it was a bunch of dudes who were obsessed with what would now be classified as dirtbag left-ish political ideology in reagan-era action movies
and then the one film class I took in college, where there was no actual film department, was taught by a pervert in his 50s who was obsessed with verhoeven
on the basis of this I still decided I would rather move to canada than join the sole faction of men with defensible politics that I seemed to be being pushed toward identifying with but at least I got a leg up on the discourse
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(although for the record I attribute my having any kind of decent politics at most 50% to this and at least 50% to all the high performing liberal professors’ daughters I wanted to date and dated who, then as now, were a lot more gratifying to empathize with than the dirtbag labour guys)
plus ca change
the stages look good I am into the contemporary age of limitless paralax. some of the characters look dumb.
generous juggling rules look fun. she throws the knife and then catches during its rebound.
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fucked up that theyre using comic book style visuals and Sketch Turner isn’t a playsble character
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but in the real world, he’d just be some pencil-necked comic artist
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I sorta wish the roller-blading dude was playable character. Maybe DLC?
i think they teased him at the end, just all grown up
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sketch turner is a riff on how american comic book artists viewed themselves in the 90’s sp he would absolutely spend 70% of his time at the gym and 30% sketching his own rude body
the art in Comix Zone and SoR4 are shaded differently therefore I feel he would look out of place and also let me tell you how mad I am Lisa no longer has an electric whip grafted onto her hand and instead holds a whip like this is some SoR1 callback when we all know SoR2 is the only game, just ask everyone who never owned a Genesis/MD
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Yuzo Koshiro, Motohiro Kawashima, Yoko Shimomura, Hideki Naganuma and Keiji Yamagishi
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shimomura seems like an odd fit to me
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