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Journey From Darkness: Strider Returns

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First release
Mar 03, 1993
Publisher
U.S. Gold
Genres
Platform · Science fiction
Platforms
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

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 other versions, this port presents several changes when compared to the original game, a result of having been adapted following closely the Mega Drive port of Strider. Despite this, the game is still plagued by shoddy programming and uninspired gameplay, product of the higher-ups being only interested in getting the game "written and out as fast as possible"

Also known as Strider Returns

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Storyline
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.Read more

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.

Release dates
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Mar 03, 1993
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Aug 1993
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Side view
Keywords
side-scrolling, high score, superhero, western games based on japanese ips
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IGDB · recorded 19 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 19 Oct 2026