Final Vendetta

READ THE MANUAL!!!!! (way too many ppl complaining about how it plays, then you watch their gameplay footage and you see why). i saw it by mistake on the game's library page, under additional content. that manual really took the game from a 4/10 to an 7.5/10 for me. i didnt even know that half of those moves were in the game till i opened the manual.
anyways, a really fun beat em up that will test you. tough as nails, and no continues lol (but you earn lives through the scoring system). if you are not willing to play it the way it was designed to be played, you will not enjoy it. this is not SR4. controls take a while to get used to, and again, i don't know why the game manual isn't "IN" the game as a menu option.
also, why in the world is stage select in settings lol??
apart from that, i love this game for what it is - just a good old 90's inspired beat-em-up, in every sense of the word. i really like the pixel art as well, you really cant mistake it for another game when you see a screenshot, even if you haven't played it.
anyways, its worth your time and money and you are looking for a beat em up that doesn't hold you hand

Pros
1. The soundtrack is amazing with a mix of dance, techno and house music. Everyone of them are bangers.
2. Controls are snappy and responds well.
3. Each characters has a lot of moves and juggling the enemies is always fun.
4. Length of the game is good for a retro beat em up. Doesn't overstay its welcome before it gets repetitive which most beat em ups suffer from.
5. Pixel arts reminds me a lot like Neo Geo titles similar to The King of FIghters with its muted but clean look.

Cons
1. Difficulty can be a bit unfair on hard and above with cheap hazards that barely gives you time to react and enemies quickly swarming you if you don't kill each on of them fast.
2. The game is fairly deep with its mechanics as you can cancel almost anything, but the game doesn't teach you jack as you need to discover them on your own.
3. The other game modes are pretty bare bones as is the training mode. Survival only has one background to pick.
4. Some of the enemy designs are interesting but the main characters look flat in comparison. They don't stand out.
5. Some of areas don't transition well to the next area. An example would be the subway, where you get on a train, off the train and then suddenly appear back in a moving train to fight the boss.

This is a must buy for classic beat em ups fans especially for those that love Final Fight and Streets of Rage. It pays tribute to those classics. While the game doesn't offer anything innovating, it doesn't have to. The game is just solid all around and the negatives that I mention are mostly just nitpicks that doesn't really hurt the experience.

The rare retro game that is both faithful *and* well crafted. The negative reviews have no idea what they're talking about.
1) Zero tedious textboxes or quipping
2) Great music and sound design. This was evident from the first seconds of clicking the menu to start.
3) The brawling gameplay is simple but fine. It feels somewhat like King of Fighters rather than like Final Fight or Streets of Rage.
4) Fascinating playability details like how you can *cancel* a dashing punch move into a flip kick.
One problem is that the built-in "CRT" filter isn't good and it seems partly bilinear (terrible). My advice is that people should Shader Glass or Reshade and then use a shader like CRT Mini Ultra Trinitron.

Basically everything Streets of Rage 4 should have been... kind of pathetic honestly that they put such a huge budget on such a pile of garbage but there it is... keep it simple, that's all you had to do.
It has a banging sound track (200% better than the garbage they put in SOR4) takes you back to the 90's for sure... it's a vibe. The game play is incredibly simple, there's nothing cheap about the mechanics like boss armor. It's just good old fashioned recovery attacks and i-frames when bosses do their specials but other than that, standard solutions to old school mechanics.
The game is just the right length for the demand of the achievements. Beating the game on Ultra is daunting, you have 1 life and there are no extra hidden lives in the stages on this mode so it's kind of nuts... but it is what it is, demands perfection, just like an old school game would.
The game isn't perfect, the graphics / art design is kind of hit and miss... some of it looks good, some of it doesn't... just depends on which attacks you're using. The game is rather short and there's not a lot of combo potential but it's still fun.
The ranking system is a bit cheese because it's based on how many times you're knocked down... this I don't agree with. So you basically start at an S rank and if you take too much time or get knocked down, you lose a rank... it's kind of dumb.
Solid 7 / 10... there's a lot of potential here. Definitely worth checking out if you're in to old school 80's and 90's arcade beat 'em ups.
Final Vendetta is definitely better quality than a lot of indie clones on Steam.
As decent as it is, it's incredibly short and repetitive, grab it on a deep sale for sure, don't pay more than $10... it's not worth the $30 price tag.

A real successor to Final Fight. Real fun and packs a punch. This game doesn't get the praise it deserves.

Final Vendetta shows once more why Bitmap Bureau are masters of modern games inspired by arcade classics.
It captures the spirit of games like Final Fight, Vendetta, and Mutation Nation, but most of all it reminds me of Konami’s Violent Storm.
The soundtrack is spot on and suits the game perfectly. Enemies and bosses are well designed, there’s a good mix of weapons, and the gameplay strikes a balance between being fair and giving you enough challenge to keep you coming back.
Bitmap Bureau already showed what they can do with Xeno Crisis and Battle Axe, and I can't wait for what's next.
For me, Final Vendetta is one of the strongest modern examples of the genre, and it’s one every beat-’em-up fan should try.

Great beat `em up, had a feeling of SoR 2/Final Fight games at first
one of the few good games on steam of such a genre.