![]() ![]() An early addition is the charge strike, a mechanic never seen in the series until now that allows Hiryu to break barriers and enemy shields. Most of what you need to progress can be found on the path, with Hiryu gaining upgrades to make him a better fighter and explorer. To prevent navigation from ever becoming a chore, an objective arrow tells you where to go for the main events, but you’re encouraged to look around for helpful items (like health upgrades) and fun things (like concept art and different costume colors). The action takes place entirely within Kazakh this time instead of traveling around to Egypt or Africa, but the city itself is a massive metropolis full of baddies to slice and goodies to grab. Essentially a self-contained reboot, the story is familiar, where Hiryu infiltrates the city of Kazakh to assassinate Grandmaster Meio. Strider takes the best elements from all three main games: the plot and atmosphere of the arcade original, the free-roaming stage design of the NES game, and the fast-paced gameplay of Strider 2. Yet, in spite of the precedent showing what happened the last time a Western developer worked on the series, the end result has turned out to be just about everything longtime fans could have hoped for. ![]() So who would have expected that Double Helix, the makers of several lukewarm games like Silent Hill: Homecoming and Front Mission Evolved, would team up with Capcom’s Osaka studio to resurrect Strider for real? Considering the American studio’s track record, it would not be unnatural to feel uneasy about how they could make a respectable modern Strider. Grin, the developers of the fantastic Bionic Commando Rearmed and the less-well received 2009 reboot, were in talks to bring Strider back, but the studio was disbanded before this could come to pass. It was nice to see him back in some action, but it wasn’t quite as delicious as a full-on revival. Strider was basically dead again after the release of Strider 2, and it took more than a decade for Hiryu to return as a character in Ultimate Marvel vs.
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