You know it’s going to suck so don’t waste a good story on it. You could actually have given us a halfway decent story that went somewhere… but it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference and the developers clearly knew this, cut their losses and gave us the shitty good/evil story. The Double Dragon universe is such a strange and unlikable one that it’s difficult to get excited for it. It’s not even STARTED and NOBODY GIVES A GIANT RAT’S ASS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. It is essentially GOOD vs EVIL in that the Shadow Master, the game’s boss, appears to have finally overtaken the city and everything’s gone to shit… so Billy and Jimmy need to go and do something about it.ĭO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE? By this point, NOBODY CARES. If you can call it that… but it’s very non-descript. YOU HAVE ENOUGH SOURCE MATERIAL TO GO ON AND YOU MADE A MASSIVE HASH OF IT YOU LAZY FUCKERS. And then being very generic with a male and female variant of the same character type and another made-up character – DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE ALREADY?
#Double dragon cartoon log tv#
Some of the characters in the game appeared in the TV show… and then they threw in a couple of others because apparently having at least 8 base enemy characters… and giving us 5. And Double Dragon V follows this set-up fairly loosely, explaining absolutely ZERO of what’s happening. It’s genuinely abhorrent in a ‘so bad it’s actually just kinda sad’ way. And Double Dragon V doesn’t even follow those games in the first place. I think you’re going to get the idea of this.ĭOUBLE DRAGON IS NOT GOOD. Let’s go back to the start of the series, shall we? Remember the girlfriend who ends up refusing to choose between two brothers? That game? The game where Marian, the love interest, indirectly forces two brothers to FIGHT TO THE DEATH for her love and affection?Īnd then in the sequel where Marian DIES AT THE START ANYWAY?Īnd then in the third gam- Oh, OK.
#Double dragon cartoon log series#
When a gaming series is clearly not as fondly thought of as it should be, you end up with Double Dragon V, a game that MIGHT be the fifth in the series but canonically makes absolutely zero sense in the grand scheme of things. It really shouldn’t have done, let’s put it that way.īecause it’s shit. I mean… why else would they give us Sonic 06 and not give us Streets of Rage 4?īut for Double Dragon to have gotten this far by 1994 after 7 years… well… I’m not sure what to tell you. It never really grabbed my attention in the same way at the more colourful and evocative Sega franchise which ought to come back but probably never will because THEY HATE THE FANS.
However, Double Dragon was always a bit clunky and choppy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of these types of games, you just have to go back and read my review of Streets of Rage a or 2 to know that – just make sure you don’t go all the way to Streets of Rage 3 because then you’ll think that I’m lying about my previous statement.
#Double dragon cartoon log code#
If anything, every single version of the game that I played, save for the most recent Neon reboot, was pretty much an example of how NOT to code a decent game. I have to admit I don’t and never did get the cult status of the Double Dragon series.
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