Just finished.

What a game. Absolutely everything you would want, I think. Can't wait to come back on Hard mode.

Downloaded, played first two levels, surprised that I'm enjoying solo. Always was a Blaze man, like the ladies so I do. Not sure if that's making it harder or what, game seems fairly tough. Looking forward to the weekend.

I mainly played with Adam. Absolute scenes at the final boss!

I think this is the happiest I have felt in weeks.

GOTY, for me.

Made it to level 4 with Blaze. Bloody hell its tough, and that’s only on normal.

The SOR2 characters seem to be well up to the task. Only unlocked

so far, but flew through the first stage with him. His moveset is the same, but you can chain certain moves together with more fluidity.

retroking1981 wrote:

Anyone getting this on Switch and wants to play between 6-9 online co-op tonight?

Anyone for 1-5pm today?

Unless I'm mistaken the original score contains some Master System version of classic tunes. Enjoying the alternate soundtrack immensely.

It feels a bit randomly applied though. I switched over on stage 2 and it was the boss music from one of the MD games.

I'm not too fussed though, since the new soundtrack is so spot on.

Jesus, tried it on hardest and can't beat the stage 1 midboss. Soundtrack really picks up half way through the game. Really enjoying it. Max is shite. Proper maining Adam.

No, I don't think so.

This certainly feels ripe for some DLC.

An updated Zan, Max and Skate would certainly be something.

Gremill wrote:

This is great fun. Played the first 5 stages on co-op with the lad and we both loved it. I must be definitely missing the nuance of this, because it feels like a pretty straight forward button masher but is no less fun for it. The soundtrack is excellent too - so much so that Isaac (10) commented that it 'has that awesome retro game sound'.

At it's heart it always will be a button masher but there's 2 kind of things I feel it does better than most. The first in how the enemies move and attack is quite distinct and means that a certain degree of crowd control and enemy targeting is needed. There's a nack (albeit not a deep one) in knowing which enemy you take down first. I think this was always something that the SOR series had over similar games like Final Fight, Punisher, Turtles. They all have it to a certain extent but I think SoR has always done it much better.

The second thing is the score - button mashing is fine, but you can start to create some really good chains in this by working out how to hit, and where you are going next. So you start looking at how you can keep chaining and this means working out to best way to safetly move from enemy to enemy (or as works best for me, rounding them into one spot so one punch s hitting 3 enemies etc.)

I think they've done a great job with this to be honest. Looks great, feels good and the length seems about right (I'd actually go a bit shorter myself) But there seems potential in the engine to introduce more defence options as well as movement options (a standard block probably wouldn't suit but maybe a parry attack? Or the grab move from Super Double Dragon on the snes) so hopefully we get a SoR 5 thats not so much bigger in level size but bigger in complexity and score attack.

tigersgogrrr wrote:

Most importantly, the tactical mashing of buttons is fun.

And you're an actual chef, right? Legit.

ChopperByrne wrote:

Would like the vertical roll from SoR3 to be added. Yeah, if they don't add every previous playable character, plus some of the new characters as DLC, with some new stages, they'll have missed a good opportunity. Suppose it'll depend on if it sells well enough.

 

Surely that would also be the best way to monetize it being on game pass from the get-go?

nick_md wrote:

And you're an actual chef, right? Legit.

I like to think I'm an actual kisser too.