Reposted by pumpkin spiced pizza
with this inevitable tension about gameplay identity with this modern era of revivals with castlevania, shinobi, ninja gaiden etc it does make me think man streets of rage 4 really was fuckin good. its not close to 2's level and it's twice as long as it should be but its a damn solid streets of rage
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