Game Review: Strider (Arcade)

For today's review, I decided to take a look at Strider, an arcade game that, in spite of media hype (not to mention ports for most major computers and consoles), I had never actually gotten around to playing. Not one to shy away from broadening my gaming horizons, I thought I'd take some time to check it out and report back my thoughts.

A little reading beforehand revealed that Strider Hiryu began life as a collaborative endeavour between Capcom and Manga outfit, Moto Kikaku. The arcade game features Strider Hiryu as the main character, as well as borrowing elements from the original Manga storyline (although I'm led to believe there are plenty of discrepancies between the game world and comic fiction). The Striders are a group of shadowy mercenaries for higher, trained to super-human levels of agility and possessing exceptional skills in martial arts and armed combat.