Posted in PWB July 2024
The android port of Streets of Rage 4 is absolutely perfect, I've played it on console to completion and this doesn't feel compromised in any way.
…well there are the touchscreen controls, which I'm not using because the game has controller support! I'm not saying it's definitely not playable because I haven't tried it but SOR4 is such a deceptively but purposefully deep beat-em-up that I find it hard to belive it's possible, or at the very least fun to do those insane cancels and combos using a touch screen.
Also, God damn what a good game, really good interpretation of classic SOR if it was also a fighting game almost.
Speaking of beat-em-ups, I have been playing Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks for the first time ever, its not as deep as SOR4 or anything but I'm having a blast! How have i not played this before??? I really like how Fatalities are used here, but you have plenty of ways to kill people without them, like firing them from a catapult and watching the the sheer force gib them against the side of a wall.
If you consider yourself a MK fan you should love this. Only thing I don't like is Liu Kang constantly screaming his usual MK gibberish for most of the damn game…