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Hey everyone! Today it's time for another hard game which kicked my ass until I turned the tables (in short bursts between it continuing to kick my ass). It's one of the best beat-em-up/fighter hybrids I've ever played!

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Playing Urban Reign: The Best of Brawl

Today we're playing Urban Reign! One of the PS2's many overlooked classics and a brilliant beat-em-up/Fighting game hybrid. We join Brawler for Hire Brad Hawk as he gets pasted against the side walk hundreds of times in his quest to unearth a conspiracy he doesn't seem to particular give a toss about, but he does love tossing dudes around so he's got that! BGM-Lite Edition: https://youtu.be/Uxy1TnbPGP4 Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/TehSnakerer Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tehsnakerer Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/tehsnakerer Art by Cola 1. Namco’s Beat-Em-Up Breakdown 00:00 2. Attract Mode: Brad Hawk’s Philisophical Music Video 01:59 3. A Strong Excuse for a Story 04:09 4. Core Combat: The Fight-Em-Up! 08:14 5. Brad Education: Lacklustre Learning 14:57 6. Sparring with SPA 17:06 7. Tatty Stats & Battered Shanks 19:50 8. Demons, Difficulty… 21:48 8-2. … And Defence 29:09 9. The Excuse Thickens! 33:05 10. Partnering Up 36:10 11. Weapons: A Farewell to Arms 43:31 12. The Monster 49:10 13. The Ultimate Challenge, The Other Half of the Moveset, and Free Mode 56:48 14. The Greatest Final Boss 01:07:13 15. Conclusion 01:10:42 Alternative Titles: Best of Brawl Time Godda Hand it to Namco Brad Hawk's Great Struggle

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cmastashizzlerizzle

afterthought questions: 1. any other 3d beat-em-ups you'd recommend besides Yakuza obviously 2. with how well Golem represents an imposing wall-type antagonist, are there any other enemies in games you enjoy similarly for representing that big, imposing, but not the final boss threat? 3. Which Yakuza protags could Brad take on/how would different Yakuza protags do in urban reign?

Gerik

I admit, I giggled watching Golem demolish Brad so thoroughly. In my own ps2 collection, I think I only got The Bouncer for the Brawler genre, through I'd have to pull them out of boxes to make sure I'm not forgetting any.

hyp(no)sin()

You know, that last point makes me realise that Tanimura was kind of an approximation of Urban Reign's dodging mechanic within Yakuza... we know what happened when he had bosses to fight, though...