Even with the game’s flaws, you can’t help but think Double Helix now has the experience and potential to make a superior follow-up. Here’s hoping that it doesn’t take another twelve years before the next sequel or reboot.
By InsideGamingDaily onStrider is a liberating, free-form action platformer studded with frustrating callbacks to an arcade era better left behind.
By PC Gamer onMatch this with the Californian outfit's reimagining of Killer Instinct last year, and it would appear they know what they're doing when reinterpreting the classics. By adopting a Metroidvania-guise here, rather, gear-gating, Double Helix shows that it...
By Strategy Informer onWhen I heard that there was a new Strider game in the works, I thought to myself, “That guy from Marvel vs Capcom is getting his own game?”That about sums up how much or rather, how little, I knew about Strider as a character. It was only after I...
By ztgd.com onPenance notwithstanding, Strider takes most of the best parts of its lineage to heart. Double Helix has built a game that captures the wide-eyed exploration of 8-bit adventures and marries it to razor-sharp side-scrolling combat. It's not that Strider ever felt like it needed that combat sophistication - but it is all the better and more vital for it.
By Polygon onIn the grand scheme of things, these complaints are relatively minor. Strider is a great reboot for old-school arcade junkies and at the same time a fresh action experience for newcomers to the franchise.
By GameInformer onThis reimagining of the original Strider establishes developer Double Helix’s firm grasp on the essence of the joy of movement that makes Strider Hiryu such a great character. It lacks environmental variety and a sense of fairness when it comes to some of the boss battles, but it shows great potential for a revitalized series.
By IGN onBut today, at the tail end of a wave of Metroidvania-style games, Strider fails to stand out. It's a competent, workable game that draws inspiration from the right places, but which is rarely anything more than a cover version of the greats.
By EuroGamer onWhile his world is a little drab there’s still plenty to explore even after the job is done. Strider is fun, pure and simple, and serves as a fitting revival of a classic video game hero.
By GameSpot onDimitry Halley: Seit Jahren bin ich deprimiert, dass bei den zahlreichen Ninja-Diskussionen mit Kollegen und Freunden kein Mensch Strider Hiryu kennt - denn der Kerl hat es mit seinem blitzschnellen Schwertarm einfach verdient, bekannt zu sein. Andere...
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