[360] [PS3] Double Dragon Neon

[icycalm]

http://www.doubledragonneon.com/

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Way Forward, more like Way AssBackwards amirite?

[Lord Knight]

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I got it for free as a PS Plus member and decided to try it today. As expected, this is simply a bad game relying on the brand name.

From the opening menu there seem to be 3 difficulty levels: NORMAL, LOCKED and LOCKED. So they expect you to replay the game several times.

If you lose all your lives you get a continue screen (I think you have infinite continues) and you restart from the beginning of the stage.

Enemies randomly drop mixtapes, which contain either super moves or passive bonuses, and you can equip one super move and one passive bonus at a time. You can collect 9 more mixtapes of the same type to raise the level of the move/bonus up to 10, and you can also upgrade that to raise the level capacity, using metal chunks you collect from bosses. You also collect cash from enemies, which can be used at shops scattered across the game to buy specific mixtapes, energy refills and extra lives.

Since you can replay stages you have finished at any given time, it makes the game a complete joke. You always start a new stage with 2 lives, but the extra lives are pretty cheap and you save the cash you gathered so far. So every stage that has a shop can be easily completed by grinding for cash beforehand -- by replaying earlier stages over and over -- then getting to the shop in the current stage and buying as many extra lives as you can.

The aesthetics look like something you'd find on newgrounds.com and the attack animations are blatantly copied from Street Fighter 4. It's like the developers started playing video games themselves only several years ago so they didn't know anything else they could rip off from. And the bosses are the worst looking part in the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-muEwkn1tIo#t=7m43