Fight’N Rage Review (Xbox Series S)

For this Fight’N Rage Review we play a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90’s arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay features that make this genre one of the best from its time.

Fight’N Rage Review Pros:

• Decent 16-bit graphics.
• 1.1GB download size.
• 1000 Gamerscore.
• How to play section.
• Display settings-post effect/raster mode/HDR, and color style.
• Side-scrolling beat-em-up gameplay.
• Streets of rage inspired.
• Three characters to play as.
• Two starting difficulties-normal and hard.
• A wide selection of attack moves like an uppercut and jump kicks along with special moves that use up your health when you do them.
• Can see enemy health bars.
• Proper arcade old-school atmosphere.
• Slick cool-looking animations.
• Combo counter.
• Special attacks allow you to literally blow up enemies, roll past damage and recover in the air or from an attack. It does use health though.
• Each character has their own ending.
• Controls are easy to learn and feel familiar to gamers used to the genre.
• Cool locations.
• Infinite continues.
• Coins-earned based on your score and use them to buy new modes/character skins/options/characters.
• A lot of depth and repetition.
• Can save and continue your playthrough.
• Starting game mode is just arcade mode.
• Speed run tools integrated seamlessly with checkpoints, checkup times, and level timers.
• Unlock new characters by defeating X amount of them and buying them.
• Every character has a handful of costume choices and colors.
• Big boss fights.
• You can juggle enemies and get them stuck in a combo of attacks.
• Gorgeous animations.
• The 3D backdrop to each level.
• Memorable locations.
• Pick up health and weapons in level.
• Good selection of enemy types.
• 2 or 3 local co-op support.
• Rock soundtrack.
• Fun to play.
• End-of-level breakdown of your score.

Fight’N Rage Review Cons:

• Difficult.
• You have to beat your head against the game at the start in order to unlock better characters or unlock easy difficulty. (this only applies if like me you suck)
• It takes ages to get coins.
• Difficulty spikes with the boss fights.
• Very rock-heavy soundtrack.
• Levels can go on a bit too long.
• No pop-up or general notification of unlocking new stuff except for a small new icon on the menu.
• Very very grindy.
• Game over has you start at the level start again.
• Annoying sections like fighting on a piece of wood but falling off is way too easy and you lose a lot of health.
• The annoying cliche of being hit by enemies off the screen.
• Health pickups are scarce.

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Fight’N Rage:

Official website.

Developer: Sebastian Garcia

Publisher: BlitWorks

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