Streets of Rage 4: S-Rank Boss Rush with SOR3 Roo
11It's been a while since I made any video of this game. The Mr. X Nightmare update motivated me to return to the game and make more videos!
To start off, the update brought back Roo, from Streets of Rage 3. He has new artwork just for SOR4, but that's only because the developers couldn't find any classic art of him, because you're still using his classic SOR3 sprites and voice, despite him showing up in the modern design in Stage 5.
Roo, or Victy in Japan, is one of the funniest characters, I think, and a lot of that just simply comes from the novelty of beating up punks with a boxing kangaroo.
He's an unlockable character, but he's as unlockable as just (on PS4) holding down the Up + Square + Options buttons at the Main Menu, kinda like how you can unlock him in SOR3.
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The coolest and funniest thing about Roo in this game is his Star Move. He literally summons his original tamer, Bruce (Danch in Japan) to attack for HIM. The tamer has become the tamed! Has Roo become a STAND USER?!
Even better, you can do this as many times as you have stars. I could've had 4 clowns helping me all at once. Instead, I just used one early on, and saved the remaining 3 for later.
The clowns are very good at keeping enemies and bosses in line, and they can help extend your combo counter! Although they are not invincible and will die eventually after taking enough damage, your combo counter won't get ruined if the Bruces get hit.
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Now, onwards to some of the newer characters of this Mr. X Nightmare patch...
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For a full description of how I describe Boss Rush, check out my first Axel run through it, here!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpS7eRxcHNU
Check out all of my Boss Rush videos as I upload them in my playlist for this game mode!:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLyf5pa2_Ka4C9URJaCJ4-bhXDpfuDy-