![]() The protagonists start chasing Red Freddy by busting a metal door with their car.Dabel introduces himself by smashing open a wall.Bar Brawl: Downtown involves a bar where you can throw chairs and flowerpots at foes.Wade lacks Kyle's weakness and Boris's slowness, yet also lacks Kyle's speed and Boris's strength. Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: Kyle trades strength for speed.Instead of hair, they have spikes growing out of their heads. Ass Kicks You: One of Boris's aerial moves involves him striking enemies with his rear end.Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Ryuken has both the martial arts gi and the Suicidal Overconfidence of being a mook.Essentially the only sign that something happened is that the buildings are covered in cracks and chips. It's almost like the apocalypse happened and no one, after changing clothes and getting ripped, really cared. There's even fully functional trains and an untouched peaceful park with fountains and gates. Although all the elements are there - leather vests, spiky armor, several punks - the world seems perfectly fine despite that. The Apunkalypse: Though a very light version.Amazing Technicolor Population: Red Freddy (who’s actually green), Joe (orange), and Geld (violet).After the End: As already mentioned above, the game's backstory states that the world is recovering after World War III, which had left said world in its post-apocalyptic condition.This is most noticeable in the bosses, who do not fit the theme at all - there's an orange-skinned hunchback who wields a giant ticket punch, a guy wearing what seems to be the Aliens Power Loader, a Living Statue. Affectionate Parody: Of both beat'em ups and post-apocalyptic anime like Fist of the North Star.Achilles' Heel: Sledge is extremely vulnerable to being thrown, which gets around his blocks. ![]() Some consider Violent Storm as the final installment of a trilogy that includes these games (incidentally, there was a two year release gap between all three), although it was never advertised as such. See also Crime Fighters and Vendetta (1991), Konami's previous beat-em-ups with similar themes. Though it may look like a blatant ripoff of Final Fight at first, that's really the point as it celebrates the classics of the beat-em-up genre as much as it makes fun of them, makes many improvements on the formula anyway, and overall is just a very finely crafted example of its genre and all it entails. Konami's farewell to the beat'em up genre, this arcade release features superb graphics with huge, fluidly animated sprites, an insane lyriced soundtrack and an impressive variety of moves. But really, who cares for the plot in a game like this? One day, their friend Sheena is kidnapped by a member of the Geld Gang and thus they go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to save her. The main characters Boris, Wade, and Kyle are a group of vigilantes protecting the innocents from thugs, the most dangerous being the "Geld Gang". In an unspecified future, the world is recovering after World War III destroyed most of it. Violent Storm is an arcade Beat 'em Up made by Konami released in 1993, and their final foray into the genre along with Metamorphic Force.
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