SoR4 incarnations also all get an air special but their weapon blitz moves look more like basic weapon moves,.SoR3 Roo do not have any weapon blitz but gets an air special,.SoR3 incarnations can also get up to 2 additional weapon blitz moves,.SoR2 incarnations also get a blitz, a defensive special and an offensive special,.X Nightmare DLC adds alternative advanced movesets to all the playable characters, including SoR1 incarnations.Įvery playable character can have as many as 7 kinds of advanced moves: Advanced movesets can be further broken up into different move types, representing different kinds of special moves that have specific names for each characters. In the vanilla game, all the characters get moves that can be split into 2 large categories: the common moveset and the advanced moveset. a progress bar is associated with each character in a dedicated screen) and no actual figures are ever showed.Īs a bonus, the possession of this DLC also allows players to get access to SoR3 Roo through a cheat code. However, contrary to the lifetime scoring system, the survival scoring system is only graphical (i.e. If the player cumulates enough points, one or several moves will be unlocked for the character used during the run. Unlocking new moves in the Survival mode works similarly to unlocking new characters in the Story and Stage Select modes: completing a run in the Survival mode gives the player some scoring points.

One of the new modes is the Survival mode, which allows players to unlock new alternative moves for every playable character. X Nightmare DLC directly unlocks new modes and 3 additional playable characters: SoR3 Shiva at 1,150,000 lifetime points.Gilbert Zan at 1,050,000 lifetime points,

SoR3 Skate Hunter at 940,000 lifetime points,.

SoR3 Blaze Fielding at 840,000 lifetime points,.

SoR3 Axel Stone at 730,000 lifetime points,.

SoR2 Skate Hunter at 650,000 lifetime points,.

SoR2 Blaze Fielding at 570,000 lifetime points,.

SoR2 Axel Stone at 480,000 lifetime points,.

SoR2 Max Thunder at 390,000 lifetime points,.

SoR1 Blaze Fielding at 310,000 lifetime points,.

SoR1 Adam Hunter at 250,000 lifetime points,.

SoR1 Axel Stone at 200,000 lifetime points,.

SoR4 Adam Hunter gets unlocked after completing the stage 4 the first time in the Story mode,.

This total score is directly added to a lifetime score.īy cumulating lifetime points this way, players can unlock new characters by reaching some thresholds:

First time completion bonus, when the player finishes a stage with a given character for the first time, he/she gets some additional points.

Rank bonus, the better the assignment, the higher the bonus,.

Score bonus, the stage score is directly added to the total score,.

The run is assessed by a letter-ranking system (S, A, B, C, D) and, then, a total score is calculated:

Star bonus, The more stars you collected without using them, the higher the score.

Health bonus, the more health remains, the better the score,.

Time bonus, the faster the stage gets completed, the more points the player gets rewarded with,.

Initial score, points cumulated during the run by hitting enemies, doing combo chains and picking bonus items up,.

Players can earn lifetime points simply by completing stages in the Story mode or the Stage Select mode.Īfter completing a stage, a stage score is calculated following those different criteria: While all the other modes are unlocked by completing the Story mode at least once, nearly all the previous incarnations of playable characters in the franchise can be unlocked through a lifetime scoring system, the only exceptions being Roo and Ash from SoR3. The character select screen hints at a 5th character that must be unlocked: SoR4 Adam Hunter. The first time a player launches the game, only the Story mode and 4 playable characters are available:

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