Final Vendetta is the next competitor in the brawler renaissance

destructoid.com:

If there is one genre that has truly seen something of a major comeback in recent years, it is the beat-’em-up or scrolling brawler genre. Led by releases such as River City Girls, Mayhem Brawler, Fight’n Rage, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, and Streets of Rage 4, it seems that the gaming community is ready to start scraping face across pavement in this simple, but surprisingly cathartic venture.

Publisher Numskull Games and British outfit Bitmap Bureau (of Xeno Crisis fame) is looking to dropkick the market with its own homage to the nose-busters of old, Final Vendetta, a brand new title currently in development for PC and console platforms. You can check out the first gameplay trailer below, which sees a trio of heroes kicking ass on the streets of Londinium in face-pounding action.

Final Vendetta will tell the story of Claire Sparks, a young woman and expert martial artist who teams up with her friends and housemates to rescue her sister from the clutches of the evil crime organization “Syndic8.” Alongside retired pro-wrestler Miller T. Williams and street fighter Duke Sancho, the trio battles their way through the alleyways and avenues of London, bringing fist-assisted justice to the domes of the Syndic8’s army of street soldiers.

As y’all know, I love a good brawler, and while Final Vendetta certainly looks to check the boxes when it comes to throwing down a solid dose of the old street justice, I have to admit I think it might be taking its “homage” tone to something of a negative extreme. While this trailer is crammed with bone-crunching action and rad tunes, Final Vendetta, on first impression, seems to lack identity.

Our hero is visually Blaze Fielding in all but name, Duke’s flurry of punches into uppercut is pulled