Gary Hartley Writes: For all the kicks I’m laying into Strider, for all its differences, it does have the guts to go out and be its own thing. It’s just that what it becomes in chasing individuality is, ironically, to turn into a generic scrolling run and gunner. Nothing wrong with a slice of generic, but it does mean that Steel Strider is going to struggle to stand out in a genre boasting a back catalogue of some twenty years.
