
His charged attack is his good old Grand Upper, which advances him forward a bit when you throw it, and his aerial special is a lunging forward roll that sends enemies flying. He does have well-balanced stats and moves, however, and you can compensate for his lack of mobility with some of his special moves. balance, like it was back in the good old 16-bit era you’ll want to experiment with the roster to find the character that matches your personal fighting style.Īxel is one of the slower characters overall, and cannot run, hop, or dash. The starting five characters in Streets of Rage 4 have a more extensive list of moves than you’d expect, especially from a game where there are only two attack buttons. Use Easy mode to practice your combos and setups, in preparation for the real challenges on higher difficulties and to farm points for the retro characters. Streets of Rage 4 doesn’t have a training mode (which would be some great DLC, hint hint), but Easy difficulty is so forgiving by comparison to Normal and up that it’s the next best thing. One helpful feature for first-time players is that on Easy difficulty, the temporary damage from your special attacks is seriously toned down.
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Special attacks are some of the most hype things you can do in SoR4, but you need to be careful about when and how to use them. It’s really easy with some characters, particularly Floyd, to spam your special attacks and end up half dead without realizing it. If you’re struck by an enemy while you’ve got temporary health loss, though, you’ll both take that damage and lose all that temporary life. You can regain it by landing normal attacks, with each hit regenerating a little life at a time. Life that you pay to launch a special attack shows up as green on your health bar, as you can see from the screenshot below. Special moves in general drain a little bit of life every time you use them, but that loss isn’t permanent.
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It’s harder to do this deliberately, but if you’ve already grabbed somebody and one of his buddies winds up to hit you in the back, you can use a throw (back or forward plus the attack button) to avoid it. Throws are also invincible during their animation and can’t be interrupted by incoming damage. I’ve eaten a lot of attacks that I should’ve avoided because I got Blaze’s palm strike (offensive special) instead of her backwards flip kick (defensive special). If you press the special button in conjunction with left or right on your D-pad, you get an offensive special instead, which doesn’t have invincibility frames. You do have to be careful to hit your special button by itself, however. Every enemy in the game has a short wind-up before they launch their biggest attack, and once you learn to recognize the wind-up, you can muscle through it with your defensive special. It may be easier to think of this as a parry. If you walk up to them and land a few quick hits, then use your defensive special, you’ll be invincible during their nightstick attack and can stay on your feet long enough to break their shield. They block everything you throw at them with their shield, and can knock you over with one shot from their nightsticks. You can also use it to punch through enemy moves that would otherwise be difficult to avoid.Ī good example comes from the riot cops in Stage 2. This isn’t just good for clearing out some space around you in a hectic situation. When you press your special button (Triangle/Y/E) by itself, you perform a character-specific move that renders you invincible for a short period of time.
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The biggest change in SoR4 from past games, both in its series and in the arcade beat-’em-up genre, is the addition of defensive specials. If you try to simply muscle through with your old arcade skills, Stage 2 will be a rude awakening, as it forces you to at least get acquainted with SoR4’s new mechanics.

However, there are a couple of key parts of SoR4’s fighting system that you need to know before you can go much further into the game. You’ll learn what Star Moves are, get a feel for the basic flow of a fight, and fight a telekinetic cyborg.

The first stage of Streets of Rage 4 does a good job of teaching you the absolute basics of its combat system.

Here are some tips to take with you out into the streets.

Is Streets of Rage 4 your first introduction to the series, or have you been busting heads in Wood Oak City since 1991? Whether you’re a veteran or a newcomer, there are some surprising subtleties to Streets of Rage 4’s combat system that take time to master.
