Surprisingly, I enjoyed this way more than I expected to. I have absolutely no experience with Streets of Rage and very little experience with beat 'em ups in general, I only got this because SEGA was giving it out for free a few years ago and because it was Yakuza-themed. I actually had some decent fun with this and I wish it was longer. It's kind of lame how the game doesn't tell you how to do special moves like Grand Upper (I think that's what it's called). I actually had to look up how to do it myself. The biggest problem I had with it is that enemies can just walk off screen and you have no way to interact with them if they do, you have to wait for them to come back. I might actually consider playing the Streets of Rage games as well as beat-'em-ups in general after having played this, because I really did have a solid 45 minutes with it, and I'm interested in playing a full length game in this style.

Reviewed on Nov 12, 2023


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