Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns
Journey from Darkness: Strider Returns, known as Strider II in Europe, is a port of Tiertex's Strider II for the 16-bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console, and the most well-known of the Returns ports. Unlike…
Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns is a platform developed by Tiertex Design Studios, released 3 March 1993 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns is
Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns is a platform game developed by Tiertex Design Studios and released in 1993. It was published by U.S. Gold. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Grandmaster Meio (called "Evil Master" in the manual and "The Master" in-game) returns from his previous defeat and plots his revenge against the Striders by posing his spaceship, the Prison Ship, above Earth with the intention of turning it into "one big black hole". He's also ordered his minions to kidnap Lexia as insurance against the enemy. Strider Hinjo, the "most pumped-out Strider of them all", is assigned the mission to stop Meio and rescue Lexia.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Strider series
Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns is the third of 13 entries we hold in the Strider series. It arrived 2 years after Strider. The next entry was Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns in 1993.
What it launched against
Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns launched on 3 March 1993, within three weeks of Star Fox and Kirby's Adventure.
Released around the same time: Star Fox, Kirby's Adventure.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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