Streets of Rage series composer Yuzo Koshiro has opened up about some details regarding Streets of Rage 2.
The legendary music creator has revealed on Facebook that what fans speculated about Stage 7 of the game is true, and the level was indeed inspired by the manga and anime Akira.
Koshiro showed off design documents to show how the stage took ideas and looks from the legendary work by Katsuhiro Otomo,
You can see Kushiro’s comments and pictures below.
Did you know that the Streets of Rage 2 stage7 was strongly inspired from AKIRA!?
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You can play Streets of rage 2 on all major platforms like Switch, PC, Xbox and PlayStation, and can see our retrospective on the original trilogy here.
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