#Games like double dragon neon series

ThereвЂ™s also a strange вЂњhi-fiveвЂќ system in operation when playing with a team mate. While this passive power seemed like the only thing worth using, the active abilities offer more choice with fireballs and spinning attacks amongst a whole range of other crazy and fun options available. Both me and myВ team-mateВ Ealiom played through the game with the regeneration power active, meaning our health recharged as we damaged enemies.

Collectibles make these effects more powerful, and they carry over from game to game. Firstly, you can equip passive and activeВ abilitiesВ (mix tapes) which have various effects. Layered on top of this basic gameplay are a number of other systems. The game also allows for juggling and by bouncing enemies off of walls or objects in the environment you can build up longer and more damaging combos. Moment to moment you are very simply clearing out waves of enemies, using a combination of light and heavy attacks and combining them with throws. Crucially though, they only really come into their own when played co-op. You probably already know if aВ side-scrollingВ beat em up sounds likeВ somethingВ you would like, but for me these kind of games still hold a lot of appeal. Many reviews IвЂ™ve read say this type of game doesnвЂ™t hold up any more, having been usurped by games like God of War and Devil May Cry. The gameplay meanwhile is that of a typical side scrolling brawler. This is a rather obscure reference to the mistranslation of BillyвЂ™s name in an early version of the original game, and it made me chuckle. You also face mutated, cloned versions of Jimmy and Billy, one of whom is called вЂњBimmyвЂќ. At the end of each level you play air guitar for no real reason. Throughout the whole game there are strange little moments that break you out of theВ vaguelyВ satisfying monotony of combat. Just look at the main characters design, or the weirdВ Abobo, an enemy you face over and over who has some very strange physical proportions.Дouble Dragon Neon continues that spirit of weirdness, but in a different way. In much the same way, the original Double Dragon was a weird looking game even by the standards of the day. Looking both retro and modern at the same time, it has personality.

ThereвЂ™s also a very unique and odd art style used throughout. At one point you face enemies in the dark and fight asВ silhouettes, which is a fairly cool,В cinematicВ effect. There are a good deal of nice lighting and filter effects. ThatвЂ™s not to say the game doesnвЂ™t look good at times. While Scott Pilgrim had a chunky pixel art style that made it feel like the best SNES game that never came out, Double Dragon Neon looks much more like one of those first wave of PS1 ports of a classic game where the 2D graphics were replaced by basic polygonal 3D models. It doesnвЂ™t have the retro appeal of the gorgeous Scott Pilgrim game (which is a title it resembles in gameplay too). Early on then, the whole thing looks like a fairly faithful remake of the original game, albeit with improved visuals and more depth via expanded special moves and character progression. The story opens in traditional Double Dragon style, with a gang punching your girlfriend in the stomach and carrying her off, before you set out with your brother to karate her back to safety. By the time you realise that the main antagonist isВ effectivelyВ Skeletor (complete with cartoon laugh) and you pick up a weapon called a вЂњbro-merangвЂќ, you start to realise just how weird (but yes, also kind of funny) the game is. This is something you donвЂ™t pick up at first as its notВ initiallyВ clear if the game is trying to be funny or its just plain weird. And they really do go off in a crazy direction inВ Double Dragon Neon.ДЇirstly, thereвЂ™s the aforementioned humour (and the proliferation of the term вЂњbroвЂќ throughout the game) that lets you know that Double Dragon Neon doesnвЂ™t take itself too seriously.

#Games like double dragon neon series

Developers like Nintendo go to great lengths to make sure that their classic characters and games are not messed with too much when remade, but with the original company that made Double Dragon now long gone, the inheritors of Billy and Jimmy Lee are free to take the series off in whatever crazy direction they choose. While other classic games franchises get moreВ reverentialВ treatment when remade by their developers, the curators of the Double Dragon series are far less protective when it comes to remakes. So thatвЂ™s a strange way to start a review, but Double Dragon Neon has a strange way of starting as a game.

What a night of bro-mance! We broke out of our normal bro-utine and bro-ptmised our experience by playing Double Dragon Neon in Bro-Op.