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You hinted a little upon it, but one of the things that makes Fight N Rage so good is that it’s theoretically possible to avoid all damage in this game; no situation is unbeatable. All attacks (except maybe explosions from the bike?) can be parried (even when getting hit midcombo), and all throws (except maybe the Minotauro’s leaping throw?) can be escaped. Any hit that knocks you into the air can also allow you to flip out, and then parry followup hits. And when surrounded you don’t need to parry everything; just 1 successful parry fills your meter and gives you a special without costing life so you can knock opponents back. Two other great things FNR has that allow you to deal with difficult enemies easier: 1) everyone has great mobility; the 3 main characters all have a dash, dash jump, and vertical dash (essentially a sidestep vs attacks). If you read the enemies well enough in advance, you don’t have to parry everything; just outrun them til you find a better opening. 2) everyone can cancel their standing attack chain into jump or dash at any hit (very underrated feature not found in most beat em ups); sure this helps you find out sweet combos, but it also helps you deal with multiple enemies; if you’re comboing 1 enemy and suddenly another’s sneaking up behind, you can end the chain prematurely and jump backwards to kick them to avoid getting hit. TBF the game is hard at higher difficulties, but it’s also very rewarding when it comes to giving extra lives. You almost always get an extra life after completing any level, even if you lose a ton of lives during one. And finally, I cannot say enough good things about the combo system (not how the game counts combos, but how the system allows you to string together and cancel moves to hit and juggle the opponent). I’ve had too much fun discovering long combos in training. The game’s got its own share of flaws (what game doesn’t), but it’s hard for me to be too hard when the game does a lot of things right.

I love Fight n' Rage a lot and Gal is my favorite character for a few reasons: -despite the low dps, Gal has a sort of infinite combo loop with combo throws and it goes like this: Backwards throw>dash jump>air down attack>air attack>land>ground combo into backthrow. Repeat -lots of mobility both on the ground and in air -Gal has 2 hidden moves. One is during the dash knee attack animation, before touching the ground on recovery, input a tiger knee input + attack and she'll do an invincible rising knee. The other secret move during a backwards jump, hold up and when landing input and hold attack then release up (timing is strict) -boobies... nuff said

So Glad Beat'em Ups Are Still Going Strong After All These Decades.

I kinda like the throw out of the screen mechanic especially in boss fight - if you're casual this gives you and your character a break, if you're tryhard it teaches positional awareness when attacking if you want to keep the combo hit up, which becomes useful in regular fights to position yourself while attacking for crowd control - keeps the learning curve longer but not steeper

This game is legitimately up there with the best indies of all time. Cave Story, Outer Wilds, Celeste, Fight'n Rage. Make it happen people.

What's your favorite beat em up?

Auto-grab at the end of a combo is a mechanic that dates back to Final Fight actually. Thou i presume you already know that, but i didn't saw it mentioned.

Damn, it has the spin kick from Double Dragon? And parrying? I might check this out.

Some bosses have character specific immunities The three turtle guys for example or the Final Boss's servants are immune to throws from Gal. Norris I think has to do it mid combo and Ricardo can just grab them, being the strongest of the three Where that might make you think "So you're forced to struggle with those bosses as Gal?" No, because if you know how to use her, you could essentially get through those bosses without getting touched. That's why shes the fastest character And Diane, she can't be picked up or thrown at all, she's immune to it. She's a Gal clone. But that means she's very vulnerable to dash/slide attacks which opens her up to combos Aside from that atuff about bosses, I love this game for just the amount of content in the game It's like 25 euro where I'm from and it has the content of a 60 euro game Survival, Time Attack, Score Attack, Practive, PvP, multiple endings, multiple skins for each character. Now you can even play as the enemies in Arcade Mode The story is perfect for what it needs to be. You have a goal, a reason to get there and a reason to not fail. There's a bunch of enemies in your way waiting to knock your teeth out. That's it, you need nothing else. My favourite thing of all is the three characters you play as The easiest way to put it, is this Gal is the fastest, but the weakest. Ricardo is the strongest, but the slowest Norris is fast and strong, but he's not as fast as Gal and he's not as strong qs Ricardo. To make up for that, he has the most versatile moveset in the game with a ton of options to maximize his damage output. That doesn't make him thw better character though. There is no better character Maybe each character will make you play the game a little differently, but thats good, because if you olayed each character and they all played the same, what's the point in three characters? And each character has their own differences in moves even if yhey all have basically the aame moves to an extent They all have an anti-air, but they work a little different Ricardo's anti-air is the best one because not once has it been beaten anytime I play him And one more thing about him. He has super armour. Yes, some people might not know, but he has super Armour on only like one move. His throws qnd suplexes I'm pretty sure its like a frame or two, but you can tank a hit with him if you time it right, only doing a tiny amount of damage I could rant about this game for hours

That enemy diane looks a lot like sabersparks friend

I've heard a lot about Fight'N Rage, and oh boy how I've missed this indie beat em up game. Now that I see it, I'd absolutely gonna play this game.

Thanks for this recommendation! Also, the soundtrack is amazing, also: you get both FLAC and MP3 versions + alot of extras. Super nice!

Nioh 2.

Hey Mayo, I just watched this video and as I was watching it within the first 3 minutes I jumped on PSN and purchased it. Played it for almost an hour and a half my first time turning it on. It has a lot of depth that has really good gameplay. The music in the game is great. It like you said it's very SOR4 ish and yet it has its own flavor, thanks for the recommendation. This game is insanely good 👍

now I'm realy curious of what you would say about a game like Final Vendeta since it was pretty devisive and also got overshadowed by Shredder'revenge when it came out.

The throw animation while comboing reminds me of Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (for me the best Beat'em Up of all time). Nice game this Fight'N Rage, i will try it :) Thanks Mayo!

Listening to you explaining the throw system made me think "has he never played Final Fight?", Then I've realised how old I am...

This game was hella good the only problem I had with it there was no online co-op mode other than that the game was pretty solid.

Might be my fav beat em up. Top 5 for sure

Ayy under the mayo gracing us with a beat em up review... Allrighht

You should try to do a review of some retro arcade beat-em-ups like Punisher and Alien vs. Predator.

Good game, but I remember rage quitting in one of the last levels, the difficulty went insane, and the screenshake didnt help

I'm having fun with Idol showdown. Can't believe it's free

Oh, I got this a while ago because it looked interesting and was on sale. Glad I bought it.

Final Fight LNS 👀 MUST check

Godhand would be a cool game to try. If you're okay with emulation

Hey mayo, since you like challenging games, here are some arcade-style games that I thought you would like: Huntdown, Wild Guns: Reloaded, and Valfaris. Just to name a few.

streets of fury ex is a pretty fun beat em up, it's made by the same dudes that made streets of rage 4, plus nostalgia critic is in this game lol

Katana Zero and Valfaris are two indies I'll definitely won't stop recommending.

Good stuff Mayo

NOOO. This game was just on sale for like 6$ and I missed out on that sale

I just now got the game and woah! How are you doing that flip grab with Norris?

Not really into 2D beat em ups but this game looks kind of fun.

One of the most under appreciated games of all time. Glad to see it getting more attention

Great game, great video

I would like to see how you'd try Darkwood. It's my favourite horror game. It's also a survival game but you don't manage classic stuff like hunger and thirst. You'll have to explore and scavenge for resources to get ready for nighttime. I won't say what happens at night. That's where the fun begins. All in a wierd mutated Polish forest. Such fun awaits thee.

Have you played the Scott Pilgrim vs The World beat ‘em up? If so what do you think about it?

Hey mayo have you tried the beat em up jitsu squad?

I genuinely had way more fun playing this than SOR4. SOR4 was a huge letdown for me. This game tho is very overlooked.

I'm Curios what you think about Evil West, Its everything combat wise God of War Reboot Wants to be but does not let story get in the way of how fast get new combat tools. and in general is just better designed around that 3rd person camera.

You should play the game fear and hunger

You should try 99 vidas and mayhem brawler and final vendetta

Hey Mayo you should try midnight fight express good beat them up made by one guy.

Maybe try FURi next

I think you should try a game called elderborn it's a first person melee combat game it's a pretty fun experince and you might enjoy it

Mayo! Everyone is telling you to….oh wait, you played Fight N Rage!! : )

You need to play sometime in the future dmc3 and max payne games especially 3 because it has the best gameplay in all 3 and its surely one of the best 3rd person shooters

Great game

"Everyone Told Me To Play..." NO, I haven't!

When’s Prey 2006?

Doe Hét!

Wonderful 101.

i would have preferred the Dead Cells mechanic for parrying wherein you push a button for parrying instead of the direction (in the case of Dead Cells, press the shield button if you have a shield at the right time to parry enemy attacks while facing them). this isn't Street Fighter you know...

i wonder if you would enjoy HI-FI Rush

You should play Synthetik.

Trepang2.

Can you please do a review of burnout paradise?

You got good content shut up and take my sub

Jitsu Squad reminded me why i felt FightNRage was mid. It's just not as fun as it could be and often devolves into tedious boredom due to how the game forces you to play.

Ky5

Problem with this game is that it put all of its effort into making a fantastic core fighting and combo system, but completely blew it when it came to annoying af level design. I vaguely remember one level in particular with floating platforms and instant death that was ridiculously punitive and didn't play to the game's control scheme in the slightest. The final boss fight was annoying as hell too since you had to fight through a couple of the least fun enemies in the game over and over every time you lost in order to take another crack at the king. There are very few games I'll power through then drop at the finish line because the final boss sucked so much. This was among the few. There's a reason why this game is semi-obscure. It's got great mechanics - which is why it'd appeal to this channel and fans of Streets of Rage 4, but dear lord there were so many other things around it that absolutely did the game no favors.

S-O-R 4 Too lazy to say Streets of Rage 4? Beta!

I can’t recommend anything. Not familiar with what you enjoy.

dante's inferno, a mediocre god of war clone by ea

i can tell your spoiled. Having people want to watch you play things is a blessing and you should be grateful, not resentful.

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