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DOUBLE DRAGON IV Review with Mekel Kasanova!!

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Channel: Mekel Kasanova · 2017 · Gaming

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Despite what Huge publications like IGN might say about this game; keep this in mind and I don’t say this lightly: DOUBLE DRAGON 4 IS FREAKING PHENOMONAL!!!!

For many of us fans from the mid to late 80’s to early 90’s Beat em’ ups were the genre that we lived and breathed for. We’d go to arcades and dump quarter after quarter into machines to just make it to the next level and back then this was an incredibly exhilarating experience. We would be able to get quasi good to meh experiences at home on our NES, Sega Master System and other home consoles of the bygone era. We got home classics such as Renegade or as its known in Japan as Kunio-Kun/Nekketsu series, Bad Dudes, Battle Toads, Final Fight, and the best of all and the most popular of that time was DOUBLE DRAGON!!. At the time, there was nothing like Double Dragon and there were not many if any options at the time to be able to play a Beat Em’ Up (or belt scroller as they were known) with a buddy in co-op and have such a blast doing so. The genre was defined by the legacy of Double Dragon and later refined and in many eyes perfected by games like the Final Fight Series and the Streets of Rage series.

The Series has run for exactly 30 years now and while we have seen many high points such as the NES and PC Engine versions of Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, Super/Return of Double Dragon, Double Dragon Advanced, and even to a lesser extent Double Dragon Neon; we have seen significant low points where the series floundered greatly and generally lost a sense of identity once Final fight and as well as Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior came on the scene as around that time the series struggled to maintain its relevance and also its sense of identity. We went through the series trying to port the original arcade trilogy to every console under the sun as well as trying to transition into the style of a fighter with the horrendous Double Dragon 5 The Shadow Falls and the significantly better yet still Street Fighter rip-off Double Dragon for the Neo-Geo and PS One and even going so far as to have an unofficial spin-off sequel fighter in EVOGA’s Rage of The Dragons which also was merely an ok Mark of the Wolves style tag team fighter. In 2003 we saw a return to form with the GBA classic Double Dragon Advanced which was a reimagining of the original Double Dragon with a mixture of all the mechanics from the first 3 Double Dragon games as well as the SNES only Super/Return of Double Dragon which made the game a dream to play especially co op and then we had the many mobile phone ports as well as the WayForward reimage of the Series of Double Dragon in the form of Neon which had an interesting if insulting take on the 80’s with some RPG elements added and while it played good it simply was not Double Dragon in spirit.

If this seemed like a long trip down memory lane, then yea you’re right. This was done so that you the viewer who may not be familiar with the franchise may know how far the series has come in its 30 years. About 2 years ago in 2015 Arc System Works bought the rights to both Technos and the franchises of Double Dragon and River City/Nekketsu and have sought to bring back the franchises that many of us grew up on. 


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