To put this review into context, I spent $100 to play Forza Horizon 4 a few days early instead I spent three of those days trying to beat Double Dragon. I spent $100 to not play a game I’ve been waiting two years for, to play Double Dragon.
There’s so many flaws with this game, the graphics are pretty poor even for the NES, there’s insane flickering when 2 or 3 sprites are on the screen, there is no real style or good soundtrack, even the gameplay isn’t great considering they have you play some of the worst platforming sections jumping using the a + b button, there is no use for the punch and all you need is to spam kick.
So why would I subject myself to this, I’m not sure. The first two levels are simple and honestly boring, but the insane difficulty spike on mission 3 compelled me, it forced me to play so smart, to memorize each screen and plan every movement. It was a lot of cussing and smashing the b button of my switch into dust but I did it, I got to the final screen and I felt more accomplished than I have playing a game in a while.
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Holds up surprisingly well, imo. At least well enough that I can completely see why it was such a hit at the time. My biggest gripe is that visibility is really rough at points, since you need to be WAY too close to the edge of the screen in order to scroll ahead. Gameplay is obviously pretty simplistic (despite a surprising number of moves available) but it's also a short enough game that it never really started to bug me. Not likely to boot it up just to play it for fun in the future, but I'd say it's more than worth at least one look.
I feel like several of these ports should have their own pages. had no idea there were so many and that a good amount of 'em looked so different from one another
Advance has some real in depth moves and combo system surprisingly! But its so unforgiving with its death traps and pits. Enemies are so repetitive that the jokes of multiple Abobos got old real fast. At least the modern ports is less than $10
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