This means no English options menu, no English victory/defeat dialogue screens, and no English digital manual.
It's a no-frills Western re-shelling of the Japanese release, so expect no English other than the main menu. This becomes intrusive and tiring very quickly.
The PlayStation version, however, suffers heavily from load times, taking between 20 to 30 seconds to get from the character-select screen into the match itself. With the Neo Geo being cartridge-based, there was no loading to speak of. The stages themselves are interesting enough, with backdrops including the top of a biplane and an old school arcade. There are 12 characters in total, including the unlockable bosses, each with its own stage. In any of these modes, you can use the face buttons when the game is paused to change your character into a tiny wee man. The Tiny 3D mode only works for one stage, making it all the more redundant. NOW LOADINGĪside from the Overdrive mode there's a Normal mode, which is the barebones Neo Geo version, and a rather silly Tiny 3D mode, which allows you to pause the game and use the shoulder buttons to move the camera around the stage as if it were a paper diorama. Knuckle drives and overdrives can also be performed in the Overdrive mode, which adds a rock-paper-scissors dynamic to the game as some moves cancel out others. It's also possible to attack downed characters if you're quick enough.Īnd you can perform super-moves, with each helpfully being displayed on the character-select screen. The fighting game mechanics here aren't traditional, with the four attack buttons focusing on speed and strength of attacks rather than specifically punching, kicking, throwing, or guarding. This game loosely based on it is better, but only by a little bit. You are either too old, too young, or too damaged from having seen it to remember it. No-one remembers the Double Dragon movie. What we have here is the Japanese PlayStation port of the Neo Geo fighting game based on the 1994 movie. All your favorite moves are here: punches, kicks, elbows, knees, head-butts and an assortment of not-exactly-street-legal weapons.When most people hear Double Dragon, they think of the 1987 co-op arcade beat-'em-up classic, or one of its home console adaptations. The first one begins with Billy and his brother Jimmy, two martial arts experts, in a mission to rescue Billy's girlfriend, Marian, who’s been kidnapped by the Black Shadows Gang. A groundbreaking, uber-popular game upon its arcade debut in 1987, Double Dragon is the undisputed godfather of co-op beat ‘em all!Įnter Double Dragon Trilogy, a compilation specially optimized for mobiles and which includes all three installments of the beloved arcade series: Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone.
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