Streets of Rage 4

Use Cherry, she has the best move in the entire game but you have to unlock it first.

Play survival until you get unlock her new blitz move SLIDING KNEE. One you have this, entire waves of enemies will melt away.

First off, play weekly since the stages are fixed so even if you die, you know what the enemy and stage placement will be (until it switches over next week).

Focus on acquiring and upgrading the following

Toxic on blitz attacks
Electric on Blitz Attacks
Weapon power up
Fire on knockdown
Toxic on Blitz Duration
Any element effect on Weapon

If you can get this powered up a few times by Wave 20 the screens will be constantly flashing different colors as you poison enemies, electrocute them and they take more damage as they ground bounce from fire. At this point, you can safely set yourself up to do sliding knee again until everything is dead.

Some random tips
Golden weapons are amazing and sometimes you can find them lying on the ground in the later rounds. When you have element effects on weapons you can clear entire waves of enemies (even if they are boss characters) in a matter of seconds. Once you reach the waves in the 20s, try to keep one with you so if a strong character appears you can melt them in a matter of seconds. If a weak enemy appears, just toss the weapon at the wall so you can use Sliding knee on the weak enemy.

The Golden Boomerang is great if you can come across it in later stages. Pick it up, head to a corner, throw it and it will hit all the enemies rushing into your position. Catch it when it returns to you and throw it again until it breaks or the enemies break your formation.

The wrecking balls are extremely good at clearing enemies (even boss characters) in seconds, sometimes knocking them out the stage. Use Cherry's Sliding Knee on the wrecking balls to set them in motion and Cherry recovers fast enough for you to move out the way and hit whatever enemy is trying to chase you. Head to the very top of the screen after using slide kick on the ball and you should be good to use slide kick or whatever again safely at the top of the screen.

While the sliding attack is godlike, in stages with conveyers or are just slippery, you have to be extremely careful using it as you can easily mistime it to land on a stage hazard or be setup to be easily attacked by an enemy.

If Nora (the dominatrix boss in red) ever appears TAKE HER OUT ASAP!! The last thing you want to see is a screen full of Super Saiyan Galsias coming out you!!!

Hoard your stars for supers and save them to bail you out in a pinch. Cherry's super allows you to control the direction she moves in so it's a great move to escape the corner and cause some damage all the way.





That's about it. It might take a few runs but you should be able to easily get it with some practice.

So I just beat it with Max and I kid you not, it was really easy.

The main thing I focused on was getting elemental damage for his blitz. His blitz is really powerful and can interrupt most enemy attacks (damn you Mr. Y).

Once I got the perk that stops me from gaining health from eating food but gives me health through hitting…it was over for max.

If you’re struggling with this like I was..give max a try.