It may have taken a few decades, but we finally have a follow-up to Sega's premiere beat-em-up series 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Streets of Rage. The newest installment, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Streets of Rage 4, doesn't deviate too much from what you'd expect of a classic arcade brawler. This isn't some super drawn out or extremely story-heavy adventure, but a game in the vein of what Sega started years prior.
Still, life can be busy and you might not have the exact amount of time needed to finish this in a single sitting. Some quality-of-life improvements mean you'll be able to stop at any point and resume from that specific level, but how much time are we looking at to finish Axel and Blaze's glorious return? Thankfully, not a lot.
For my first playthrough, I beat the game on Hard difficulty in roughly three hours. I died and had to restart a few levels, but a very generous assist system means you can sacrifice your high score to get a bunch of extra lives and super moves. That's really handy in cutting down on the tedium.
Once you get pretty good at the time and go for a second playthrough (or sixth, in my case), you can actually cut off an hour on that runtime. All of my subsequent playthroughs – be they on Easy, Medium, Hard, or Hardest – were a little under two hours long. This was skipping cutscenes, but those amount to maybe 15 minutes in total and that's being generous.
The major time investment here will be unlocking all of the retro characters. Since there aren't specific challenges to beat, you'll simply need to rack up an overall score by playing through the different levels time and time again. I'm not 100% sure if the unlock order is randomized, but you'll need a cumulative total of 1.15 million points to get each character. That equates to roughly five playthroughs.
Overall, you can spend quite a bit of time in Streets of Rage 4 if you want everything. It's not like the game drags at all, because I still want to play it despite doing everything. Just know that the initial playthrough will be your longest and even then, it's not terribly long.