Fight'N'Rage is that rare brawler that doesn't simply ape other brawlers, it learns from them and uses what it's learned to make a better game. While not up to more recent releases like Streets of Rage 4, FNR is still a must play for any brawler fan who enjoys a good beat down.
I'm giving it 5 stars because this was a massive undertaking by a mod team. They've done great work and,if you can get it working,it's a pretty good experience,especially for the price. But there are problems. I'm listing them here cause I refuse to use Discord and I can't find any other forum for them. The game crashes a lot. From my experience,it seems there's some bugged objects that crash the game when rendered so if you look at the wrong thing,the game crashes. You can work around this by noticing which direction you look in when it crashes. If it's consistent,it's probably a bugged object not rendering properly. Just don't look that way if you can. The London Bridge settlement is a lost cause. I tried everything but the people there just disappear and I found Beefy dead twice,once floating in the river. Even clearing Covent Gardens and trying to move the settlers there didn't work with only a few of them moving and the rest just disappearing. I don't think this is going to work and honestly,I'd rather set up in the Tower of London. Maybe work up a quest where Beefy helps you take it over. I would also like it if you could make the Fresco into a Home Plate type of place. A "personal player house" you can get early on as a lair. It's a good location,lots of resources to scrap,and it's pretty much got a prebuilt in quest. You kill the Bloatmother and you can access the workbench. And why did you stick to the idea of making workbenches require local leader? That never made sense,please stop. Weapons are neat but broken. The Crude guns can't hit anything. I know these are makeshift weapons but come on. I can't hit someone right in front of me? Try to stick with vanilla weapons when you can and sort out which guns work and which don't. Needs to be fixed,tho. Also,the upgrade tables are a mess with the new gear. Definitely need to tidy up there. Still,if you don't mind the alpha status of it,it's worth looking into. And try to have fun with it.
