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Bought Fight'n Rage today. This is a great game if you're the kind who likes beat-em-ups. Though having beaten the game on Easy mode, which...eugh that was a slog, I feel the game has a few major problems
But first, I'm going to talk about the good things, because I don't want to push people away from the game, because despite the issues, this game is fun.
Postive 1: the music. The soundtrack is awesome. I love the rocking soundtrack.
Positive 2: the multiple paths, endings and choices. It's pretty cool that this game gives you multiple story choices to make, which ultimately lead up to which ending you'll get.
Positive 3: you can play as the bad guys. Not many games let you do this. Ive only seen it with 3 games. Streets of Rage 4, Double Dragon 4, and this game. Although I don't really like that you can only use them in the Extra modes, and not the Arcade. Positive 4: No Multiplayer trophies! You don't need to join other games, don't need to revive people, don't need to worry about Multiplayer whatsoever. Just go, have fun with your buddies. Problem 1: the fact that there's no online multiplayer. Now while this may be great in that it's keeping up with the "retro style", it's not good in the long run because if you're aiming to unlock everything, which requires you to S rank the game with every character in every mode, beat all difficulty settings and get all endings, some of which require you to play in multiplayer with certain characters and do certain actions with those characters. It's a massive slog, even though you can run through the game with a unlockable CPU team, which...whyyyyy? .
There's also the difficulty spike. Easy mode isn't available straight away and you have to pay coins, earned ingame to unlock it. It's also not that much easier than Normal mode, and sadly you don't unlock anything by beating it (except a trophy achievement, if you are playing the PlayStation/Xbox/Steam version). Which, comes to problem 2: unlocks are tied to "Beat the game on Normal mode or above" Easy mode also punishes the player by making it harder to earn coins. 1000 points = 1 coin, as opposed to Normal mode where it's 800 points are needed for 1 coin (and less depending on difficulty, I assume). So you're basically forced to play Normal and above if you want anything extra.
Problem 3: Saving mid game. Game saves are called "suspended saves" and if you exit mid-game, you have to choose the exact same Character and difficulty to continue from where you left off. If you change the difficulty or character? The suspended save gets wiped and you have to start fresh from Stage 1. Thankfully this doesn't affect your unlocks, just your progression in the story. Problem 4: Lives system. There's only a very small handful of Lives and it depends on what difficulty you pick. This is the same as in games like Streets of Rage, but unlike Streets of Rage 4, there's no "Assist" where the game gives you extra lives or makes you more powerful in exchange for your score and Rank. Thankfully you can get more by racking up a certain score parameter.
Problem 5: Health items. In every beat em up game, enemies drop health items, or even 1Ups, the latter being rare, but this? Barely anything. It really needs to step up on the health items, especially late game and especially on harder difficulties. No one's going to want to play a game where they constantly die
Overall: 3/5 stars Challenging and fun at its core, but a bit too overwhelming at times, especially when it comes to unlocking extra content. I wanted to like the game, but it's too unreasonable with unlocking stuff. A casual player would never be able to do it. Not without online multiplayer or hell, 9 lives at least as start up.… Expand
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