> It's a gaunt enemy with his back sort of turned towards

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>>3274016
What kind of fighting POSE is this? Every beat'em/belt scroller game has some enemy who's back is turned towards the screen


people say this is suppose to be southpaw

>>3274112
It's called only so many ways to draw sprites facing left or right.

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>>3274124
Well how come it's always some dude holding his fists way up

>>3274125
Because when they're facing away that's the easiest way to show his arms and ready for a fight. Also artists are lazy so just do the same things over again. Beat em ups weren't a genre that innovated a whole ton.

>>3274125

He's just trying to show-off his bad-ass hoodie design to the player.

>holding his fists way up

Common western boxing stance. It shields the face and ribs.

>Also artists are lazy so just do the same things over again.

Don't forget the graphical and memory limitations of hardware back then.

>>3274016
>>3274112

I'm guessing they never actually use those boomerangs

>>3274303
>I'm guessing they never actually use those boomerangs
https://youtu.be/8VTEAocHJ6o?t=241

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Signal did this too, as did his SOR1 incarnation.

>>3274440

I was gonna play it but fuck the animation is shit. Is this the SNES version?

>>3274468

SOR/BK enemy sprites are just palette-swapped or retouched versions of the Final Fight sprites so no surprise there.

And Axel is just Cody with a head-band.

>>3274593
>SOR/BK enemy sprites are just palette-swapped or retouched versions of the Final Fight sprites so no surprise there.
The only other enemies from the Streets of Rage series that I remember being directly inspired by the thugs in Final Fight are the Galsias and Donovans, which were obviously based Bred and his head swaps.

>>3274843
They switched out Andre the Giant for Ultimate Warrior