I want to play an indie retro treatment of side scrolling beat em ups that is like a meditation on grief or something
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Mate, I also just remembered Fading Afternoon. It's a side scrolling beat em up with life sim interludes that's about a Yakuza getting out of jail and going through a mid-life crisis. You control whether he falls back into a life of crime or not.
aug 26, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
Enough Mario-platforming to solve depression, more River City Ransom beating the ghosts of your insecurities to death with a lead pipe
aug 26, 2025, 1:47 am • 4 0 • view
My brother and I have been playing through River City Ransom every Thanksgiving for over 30 years
aug 26, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 0 • view
It's still *so* good.
aug 26, 2025, 7:34 am • 2 0 • view
There were some pretty high profile ones not too long ago. Have you checked out Final Vendetta, Fight n Rage, or that ridiculous Pit Fighter style one?
aug 25, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I have not. Does Final Vendetta have the Vendetta licence or is it just an homage?
aug 25, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s an homage I believe. I am not sure how much it resembles Vendetta. People say it’s really technical and refined but SoR4 has gotten all my beat em up time.
aug 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view