Though this stays true to the original Double Dragon’s gameplay, with so many other games opening up the combat zones and offering more multi-dimensional move types, it can seem obnoxiously archaic. You can’t punch someone unless they’re on your horizontal plane, so if they’re closer to the bottom or top of the screen than you are, your options are few. One notable annoyance, however, is movement, which is reserved to the typical planar system. However, the plentiful number of enemy types, weapons and environmental hazards add a strong amount of variety to each challenge. The fighting system is quite limited compared to many other beat-em-ups on Steam like Castle Crashers or Shank you won’t find many over-the-top combos to learn and there are very few moves to enhance your skillset. You get all of the mainstays that the original Double Dragon used: combos, grabs, dodges, weapons, hazards and all the rest are available. Like its predecessors, Double Dragon Neon is a side-scrolling beat-em-up just get to the goal while fighting some thugs and you’re golden. The amount of reverence that WayForward put toward the 1980’s vibe is shocking, but it makes Double Dragon Neon a surprisingly intelligent use of chronological satire that doesn’t look, sound or feel forced in the least. Skullmageddon himself is a blatant parody of another skull-faced cartoon antagonist from the 1980’s, nasally cackle and all. Whether it’s a movie, a band, or some obscure pop culture fad that appeared in the decade, you’re bound to find some trace of it in Double Dragon Neon.
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The game is chock full of nostalgic references from the synth bubblegum pop themes to the use of cassettes as power-ups to the pointing Power Glove that tells you to run right, Double Dragon Neon is the purest essence of the 1980’s. Though the story isn’t anything complex, WayForward and Abstraction Games put forth a ton of effort to give Double Dragon Neon its own identity. The rest of the game stays true to the original with the duo beating down thugs to reach Marian. After taking out a number of enemies, the main villain, Skullmageddon shows his face. The story follows the classic heroes of Billy and Jimmy Lee in their journey to rescue the kidnapped Marian. In fact, it’s more than welcome.ĭouble Dragon Neon pays tribute to the original NES classic in a number of interesting ways. Double Dragon Neon embodies everything goofy and obscure about the ’80s, but in combining it with a pitch-perfect representation of the series’ legendary gameplay and design, that goofy and obscure vibe isn’t annoying. It was innocent.” So leave it to WayForward, the modern masters of retro-era revitalization, to tackle the challenge for a new Double Dragon, with Abstraction Games bringing the game to Steam. In the words of Matt Kowalewski, “it was pure. Even as a kid during the age of the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64, Double Dragon remained an experience that transcended generations, one that never strayed from its strengths in the visceral beat-em-up genre. But as I grew up, I realized that the 1980’s also brought us some incredible video game series, one of which was Double Dragon. That bubblegum pop on the radio stations, those corny television shows like He-Man, the Reagan Administration it all sounded so bizarre to me as a kid in the ’90s, and back then, I never wanted to associate myself with it. As your typical “’90s kid,” the more I learned about the 1980s, the more grateful I became that I didn’t grow up in it.
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