The enemies you'll face range from street thugs, to biker gangs, to police officers, and they all have unique attacks to watch out for. While the controls are deceptively simple, Streets of Rage 4 is no cake walk. The stages have a few items hidden in breakable containers, such as food that restores health, which frequently make the big difference. This risk and reward system often feels too dicey to use consistently, as the game is often challenging enough as it is. To get that health back, you have to deliver some regular attacks – but if you get hit before getting it back, it's lost for good. The catch, though, is that these Specials temporarily drain your health meter. There's also a Special attack bound to the Y button, which lets you pull off some powerful extended combos that you'd see in more traditional fighting games. When you're in trouble, you can use a powerful Star Move, assuming you have some stars in your possession. So on the surface, Streets of Rage 4 tries to keep things simple. All of these abilities are simply tied to the same attack button with combination of your movement. You can also perform strong attacks, back attacks, and throws. You can also pick up and use/throw various weapons that enemies drop, such as knives, baseball bats, swords, and grenades. Each character has their basic attack button, as well as a jump. Floyd and Axel are two hulking fighters, while Adam is a bit more agile Cherry and Blaze are even quicker still. You pick from one of 5 characters, who each have their own feel and attacks, but the controls remain the same. Streets of Rage 4 is a 2D fighting game, and in old-school fashion you can also move up and down on a 2D plane. To help, players can activate an assist which gives them extra lives, but this reduces your final score exponentially. The stages take about 10 minutes, but that time is definitely extended as you might have to try it a few times. Even normal difficulty will be tough for some players, as you only get two lives, and failure means starting the stage over. While the game classifies itself as a brawler, it turns out to be more of a proper fighting game in the sense that it's rather challenging. You choose the difficulty at the start of the campaign, and there are separate leaderboards for each. Each location features its own set of unique and common enemies, and culminates in a boss battle. The stages will take you across a few different locales, from the streets, to a pier, a concert, a police precinct, and more.
Like the arcade games of old, the idea is that players will fight their way through the campaign a few times, using multiple characters and perhaps difficulties.
The story elements appear between stages as static screens with some subtitles, which look nice, but are minimal. The narrative is rather brief and is not really meant to offer much context beyond the very basics. The narrative in the campaign is pretty thin, as a group of vigilantes is trying to stop their Wood Oak City from being taken over by a pair of evil twins named Y. The Streets of Rage 4 campaign is comprised of 12 stages to punch your way through.
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