Garnet or Soozie is an enemy in Streets of Rage 3 and Streets of Rage 4. She's a punk girl who works for the original Syndicate of Crime, and later joins the Y Syndicate.
Overview[]
Garnet is a tall, slender and slightly muscular woman, dressed in a punk rock fashion, with a blonde mohawk, and sporting a blue tank bra, sleeves and a short skirt.
In the North American release of Streets of Rage 3, her name was changed to 'Soozie' and Her bare skin is covered with a shirt and pantyhose. She also fights in a different, less suggestive stance.
In Streets of Rage 4 her design is like her Bare Knuckle III version, with some slightly differences, such as a tan complexion, a noticeable "X" shaped scar on her cheek, and also wears various golden bangles on her arms, as well a belt-chain. Her fighting stance is similar to her Streets of Rage 3 version, but with the hand positions inverted.
Streets of Rage 3[]
In her debut in Streets of Rage 3, She is firstly met at the beginning of Stage 1, along the other debuting enemies Zack and Goldie. She's then fought throughout the game until Stage 5. In her latest appearances, She fights beside Electra, the other female enemy.
Her main attacks consist of slapping the player in close, and doing a high jump kick that covers considerable distance. She also utilizes an evasive high jump backwards, as well as a flurry of forehand-and-backhand slaps combo that immobilizes the player and quickly racks up a surprising amount of damage.
Streets of Rage 4[]
Garnet and her variants first appear at the start of Stage 4. Unlike in Streets of Rage 3, she no longer has her slap flurry (only her single hit slap), but will use her jumping kick far more often, which is much harder to interrupt. Exclusive to her, the jumping kick will often be executed twice in a row.
Variants[]
Garnet has four variants, each having increased health with no differences in moveset. Curiously, her variants appear more than Garnet herself through the game.
- Diamond, with dark blond hair and pink clothes, has the least health of all variants, and appears the most through the stages.
- Ruby, with white hair and green clothes, has slightly more health than Diamond. She uses slaps more often than the other variants.
- Pyrop, with blue hair and orange clothes, has slightly more health than Ruby. She's unique as her jump attack is very quick, but doesn't jump very high or far; being significantly easier to intercept, but requires faster reaction time. She also has an evasive jump that has invulnerability frames, used when getting up from a knockdown.
- Saphyr, with blue hair and clothes and a notable pink skin, has the highest health of all variants (even more than Garnet herself). She fights exactly like Pyrop.
Move list[]
- Flying Drop Kick: used in all games. She'll take distance from the player, then jump high in the air towards them, with both legs extended. This move has high priority and is hard to intercept unless the player uses anti-air moves. In Streets of Rage 4, her variants Pyrop and Saphyr use a faster version with shorter jumping height.
- Evasive Jump: used in Streets of Rage 4, by Pyrop and Saphyr. They'll do a short hop backwards after getting up, becoming temporarily invulnerable.
- Slap: used in all games. She'll perform a quick slap on the player. Often used as a get up attack if the player is nearby.
- Combo Slap: used in Streets of Rage 3. She'll slap the player several times in rapid succession until a great deal of damage has been accrued.
Strategy[]
Garnet is an agile opponent that can be dangerous to deal with in large groups. Her flying kick can frustrate many approaches as it is quick, has high priority, and potentially surprising range.
On Streets of Rage 4, Garnet and her variants pose even more of a threat. Her jumping kicks are much faster and are very hard to intercept due to increased priority, larger hitboxes and tracking capabilities. Ideally, the player should either strafe up and down to avoid, and punish once she lands. Alternatively, the player can use anti-air attacks (i.e. Grand Upper) or Defensive Special Attacks to catch her jumps. Characters with high priority kicks (such as the characters from the first Streets of Rage, and both versions of Max) are capable of challenging her kicks directly and can out-range her.
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Trivia[]
- Due to censorship, She got a new outfit and stance in Streets of Rage 3.
- As with all enemies with "themed" names, in Streets of Rage 4 Garnet and her variants are all named after gemstones.
- In Streets of Rage 4, during Stage 1 and Stage 6, silhouettes resembling Garnet drinking at restaurants can be seen through the stages. In Stage 1, one of them is called "Roasted Chicken", and the other "Pine Pot".