Double Dragon II: The Revenge

Informations générales

Date de sortie

22 décembre 1989

Plateformes

Wii • Nintendo Entertainment System • Nintendo 3DS • Wii U • Family Computer

Note IGDB

★★★☆☆ (31 votes)

Genres

Fighting • Hack and slash/Beat 'em up • Adventure • Arcade

Thèmes

Action

Développeur

Technos Japan

Éditeur

Arc System Works • Technos Japan

Modes de jeu

Single player • Multiplayer

Perspectives du joueur

Side view

Langues

Classifications d'âge

U.S. & CA

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Résumé

Technōs created once again a vastly different experience with Double Dragon II on the NES. The experience system was dropped, but the moveset still underwent a few changes. The elbow attack and turning jump kick are gone, but with the standard kick directed backwards they seemed a bit redundant anyway. There are two new ways to make enemies in a grapple suffer, elbow smashes to the head, and a high kick to propel them away. In the brief time window when the Lee brothers are crouching after a jump or after getting knocked down, it’s possible to perform a rising uppercut or a knee jump attack. The timing for these isn’t easy, but they are the most powerful moves in the game.

On the NES, Double Dragon II is a much more innovative and unique sequel than in the arcade, but it marks also the time Double Dragon started its schizophrenic shifting between wildly different tones and gameplay styles. In a way it’s one of the best games to bear the Double Dragon name, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that Technōs had already started to loose a cohesive vision of what it meant to be Double Dragon, both in tone and in gameplay.