The mechanics are fairly simple and should be easily recognizable to anyone who’s ever played a beat ’em up. Story time’s over, let’s get to the punching and kicking part of the program. While there is certainly a message trying to be conveyed throughout, I’m not exactly sure that a beat ’em up is the right vessel to do so. The dialog sections can be quite lengthy and I found myself slightly confused at times, not by the story itself, but rather the odd dichotomy of playing these drug fuelled street fighters and having conversations that range between swear filled taunts to sociopolitical discussion with droppings of moral dilemma’s here and there. Far more than I was expecting to see from anything in the beat ’em up genre. There’s actually quite a lot of story in Mother Russia Bleeds. Well, that’s about as simple as I can boil it all down to. The battle however isn’t confined to the outside world as the Nekro will also have them facing off against their own demons. After busting out they look for the source of who is behind this and along the way annihilating everyone in their path with a murderous rampage.
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They awake to find they have been pumped full of a new drug called Nekro.
This gist is quite simple, a crew of street fighters are kidnapped from a gypsy camp by the mafia and placed in a jail. Having spent many hours on those early 90’s era beat ’em ups and some time with Hotline Miami (although not nearly as much as the beat ’em ups) Mother Russia Bleeds certainly has my attention. Mother Russia Bleeds aims to combine that classic Streets of Rage beat ’em up style with a bit of the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Le Cartel Studio’s debut title published by pixel pusher extraordinaire Devolver Digital. Psst… Hey, you wanna try an old fashioned beat ’em up? I’ve got just what you need, they call it Mother Russia Bleeds.
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