3/25/2023 0 Comments Double dragon cartoon series![]() In summation, I have to say that this game is a terrible waste of time and a sucking chest wound on the Double Dragon legacy. I laughed out loud when I heard the first “Round One, Fight!” It’s that bad. I would grade Blades of Steel, a game made six years earlier for an less powerful system, higher than this. Speaking of slurry, I think that this game is a contender for all time worst voice audio. ![]() Gone is the kick ass Double Dragon theme music from games of old, and in its place is just banal slurry techno rock. I had to go back and turn the game on while I was writing this in order to comment on the audio, and that reminded why: it’s quite forgettable. The difficulty can be adjusted, as was par in fighter games indigenous to the early-mid nineties, but the “normal” difficulty to me seemed a little soft. The controls feel very loose I kind of got the feeling that I was trying to play the game wearing oven mitts. In fact, in the hours I wasted on this crap I only managed to do one, and it was by accident. The actual gameplay looks glitchy and is hampered by slowdown, especially if you manage to pull off a special move, and I stress that “if” because the special moves in this game are nearly impossible to pull off. We also have the post fight scene that shows you and your opponent’s battered face with an unbelievably cheesy taunt displayed beneath… the list goes on. then there’s the very Chun Li-esque character Sekka, who even has an upside down helicopter kick, although her outfit looks as if it were ripped directly from the programming code of Mortal Kombat II. One character throws a fireball and causes your character to be set ablaze as he flies through the air. In practice, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls is frightfully similar to Street Fighter 2. Did you ever want to know Jimmy Lee’s number one dislike? I’ll ruin the surprise, it’s bad hair days. And they are so cheesy I felt embarrassed for who ever wrote them. Finally, battle demo encompasses all the excitement of watching two fighters controlled by a hopelessly stupid AI battle to the death.Īlso included is a Dossier option, which lets you read the dossiers of all the playable characters. Quest mode is a half-assed attempt to create a cohesive storyline out of fighting your enemies in a rigidly structured, best two out of three rounds scenario. Battle is where, if you are able to find a friend gullible enough, you can square off against each other. Tournament is your basic fighter game “beat several characters and then face a couple bosses” type of affair. The game has the option of four game play modes: tournament, vs. The cartoon was actually canceled a mere four months after this turd was released, so that just goes to show what kind of source material they were working with. Is it any shock that Technos, the developer behind the beloved original Double Dragon arcade game and ports had nothing to do with this debacle?įirst things first, if the characters look stupid and goofballish, it’s because they are actually based on the Double Dragon cartoon that was airing at the time. And by “they” I do mean publisher Tradewest and the subsidiary company to whom they farmed the work out, Leland Interactive Media. Yes, in order to revitalize a series that by all accounts didn’t need any revitalization at all, they had jumped on the Street Fighter 2 bandwagon. Oh, what the Abobo’s must look like in glorious Sega fried 16-bit glory! The pipes, the chains, the conveyer belts… It was going to be glorious. I had flashes of a game akin to Streets of Rage 2, only with my old friends Billy (not Bimmy) and Jimmy Lee under my control. What if, after all these years, after seeing the game in countless pawnshops and display cases, what if this was the greatest Double Dragon game of them all? What if it had just simply slipped under my radar after I had lost interest in the series? What if? I admit, they kind of lost me when they made Double Dragon 3 one of the hardest games on planet Earth, but seeing a copy of Double Dragon 5 for Genesis in my local used game store a couple months ago, I suddenly had a flicker of hope. So many of my favorite video game-related childhood memories are tied to the Double Dragon series. I remember one of my birthday parties (ninth, maybe?) when Double Dragon 2 was brand new, and my Dad rented it for us at the good old Acme Video. When I was a kid I loved Double Dragon 1 & 2. Now, I had never played this game until a couple of months ago. What’s the best way to ruin one of the most legendary names in the beat-’em-up genre and effectively derail an entire series? Six words: Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls. Genre: Beat-‘Em-Up Developer: LeLand Interactive Media Publisher: Tradewest Players: 1-2 Released: 1994
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