Yes, worth buying.
At $24.99. It has been as low as $6.24.
- Story and characters: 95 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 56 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 22 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 20k player reviews · updated 2 days ago
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Unlocking characters is fun, and the art is spectacular.
Combine this with the DLC (which is an essential purchase), and you get four additional characters, a cool roguelike survival mode that has a progression system that unlocks variants of each special move for whatever character you play as, an incredible amount of bang for your buck.
It's a classic beat'em up, not much else to say. the went to a cartoon graphics rather a retro-pixel style, which is something I honestly appreciate since there are already a lot of other similar games in the pixel art space.
Add in a thumping, god-tier soundtrack led by Olivier Derivière (with legendary nods to Yuzo Koshiro), and the atmosphere is flawless.
All of this can be played in coop with a friend (including the roguelike mode), in either story mode, stage select, or arcade mode.
Honestly after beating the story the game does leave you with wanting a little more and thats something i really love about this. we really need a classic collection for SOR 1-3 with hd graphics and possible online multiplayer cause again playing this to its completion leaves more to be desired.
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Currently $24.99. The lowest we've tracked is $6.24.
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