Strider ended up being one of my favorite PS Plus games so far, but if you missed it when it was "free," you can pick it up for a nice price this week. If you like Metroidvania games, or just 2D action games in general, I'd recommend it. It's a little on the easy side, though, so consider bumping it up to hard, unless you mainly like this genre for the exploring.

Want to know what you'll be buying? Here's a nice stretch of gameplay on hard mode:

Thanks for posting the video. I have fond memories of Strider on the Genesis, but I've never tried this one before.

i got it in the capcom bundle a while ago is really good

Strider's pretty good, reasonably fun Platinum to get as well.

I enjoyed it quite a bit. Gave me that Shadow Complex kick.

Surprisingly easy compared to the anime-Contra remake, but still very fun. At this price, yeah you should buy it.

It's pretty cool, definitely worth taking a shot at that price.

The new Strider is great. Good combat and a game that just relishes in how dumb it is.

Strider has also been in Humble Bundles at least twice already that I know of, so keep an eye out for that on the PC side.

It's a fun game, not great but solid.

Hard to go wrong for 4 bucks basically.