This piece of shit is so obnoxious on mania, it's straight up unfair. I'm not picking max, exclusively trying Axel and it feels like half the time i'm literally just spamming grand upper.

Streets of Rage thread

>>715678729 (OP)
Streets of Rage Remake is my favorite entry in the series.

GRAND UPPA

Can I get some tips unironically for general tips?

>>715678729 (OP)
he's definitely yelling "grand upper" and not "bare knuckle," right?

>>715682180
for Streets 2? Just be aware of your surroundings and don't let them surround you, and also you have a few iframes while jumping, but that's not as much of a get out of jail free as your invincible move is, or even the iframes you get while throwing an enemy. also use the down attack while jumping, it let's you combo after. seems obvious to anyone who's played it but if you're new you could miss it.

>>715682515
>Just be aware of your surroundings and don't let them surround you
A lot easier said than done dude, I meant more specific tips. Like the basics of what has i-frames and using the knee to combo and stuff are simple but i'm playing on mania and it's really difficult to deal with enemies who get behind you other than to do your get off me move then spam invincible knockdowns alternating between the two sides of enemies and it feels like there has to be something else you can do

>>715682180
one thing i found is you can 100% stunlock every enemy in the game, do a string of basic jabs with a small gap inbetween each. every enemy, every boss, they all can get stunlocked like that

>>715682883
That's not true, there are a couple of bosses that can break out or even block attacks and that includes the boss at the end of the very first stage, I think you can only stunlock him if you get him stuck on the right end wall but otherwise he can block or move out of your way and then hit you with attacks that reach further than your normal attacks can

https://youtu.be/i-lc624eNwY

>>715683009
i mean, dude i don't know what to tell you, i beat the entire game stunlocking everyone, it literally worked for me

>>715678989
fpbp! its no surprise moden developers will spend gazilions on boob drawings rather then thinking of a fair and rewarding gameplay

>>715678989
Fanfiction isn't a entry in the series.

I was too used to Final Fight and stuff but i enjoy SoR2

I was too used to Final Fight and stuff but i enjoy Streets of Rage / Bare Knuckle III

>>715678729 (OP)
What you do is play snes batman on the hardest setting instead.

>>715683009
Bosses and certain enemies have invincibility applied to them on certain attacks and when getting up from a knockdown.
If you're playing Axel, you can just grandupper them, that move is made out of active frames and catching other enemies will help lengthen that active with all the hitstop. But getting that right relies on better understanding how the AI makes the enemies move. Galsia and Donovan like to circle about and flank, the bikers always space themselves to use the full range of their punch, the kung fu guys like using palm when at a distance and close in otherwise. The stunlock does work on Abadede in a weird way, you have to land one hit and let him finish his hitstun before you hit him again, because the game only makes him counter after getting hit four times in the same hitstun period. Also don't forget to abuse throws, they are invincible when you do them, so try to focus on grabbing and tossing them into the crowd for some breathing room instead of relying on your dragon wing to save you all the time.

>>715687919
As for specific boss strategy:
Barbon you can just abuse grandupper as usual.
Jet you have to walk away and keep you distance to make him instantly hover down and charge forward, which you can grandupper easily and loop it until he's dead.
Zamza you knock him down with upper, jump out to a certain mid range to make him wakeup counter, and give him another upper as he lands.
Abadede has that jabloop I mentioned.
R. Bear is tricky but you can grandupper any of his punches if you can react fast and make him come to you, try buffering the forward, forward part of the input to make it easier so all you need is the button to react.
Souther with his Jets, see above and try to focus Souther unless you want the points
The robots can be granduppered as soon as they get up but you have to be fast and walking to where you're knocking them down to.
Shiva will alwaya final crash if you're a certain distance, about 3/4 screen space, forward jump kick him to knock him down and out of it, and keep that distance to loop him
Mr. X always tries to run to the corner to fire his gun, get to the edge of the screen to hit him from behind.

>>715678729 (OP)
>play game on hardest difficulty
>it's hard

>>715678729 (OP)
It's way easier to win with Axel compared to using Max. Just jab a lot. After the first two jabs you can pause a bit so you don't continue into the third hit, then you can go back to doing quick jabs, and repeat until their health is low enough to finish with grand upper.
Or grand upper then grand upper again when they get up.
But Max is so much more fun.

>>715678729 (OP)
>and it feels like half the time i'm literally just spamming grand upper.
You mean to tell me i've been playing this game wrong?

>>715683075
This song traumatized me because of that doom megawad called Sunlust. That fucking archvile caroussel, man.