Recent reviews by 「Sh1k1」

For the most part, it's everything a fighting game fan would ever want in this day and age: lots of varied, fun characters, lots of content, lots of depth to the mechanics, lots of stuff to try out and have fun with. And even though I personally despise the Modern controls, I can't deny they're an excellent bait for more casual players to jump into the genre and try to get better (and eventually move to the much more sensible Classic controls).

An absolutely breathtaking minimalistic storytelling experience. It HAS to be experienced by oneself.

Take a base of a ridiculous, ridiculously fun and ridiculously stereotyped 80's beat-'em-up, sauté in high heat with liberal amounts of hilarity and nostalgic references to past entries of the series, glaze over with an absurdly awesome soundtrack, then sprinkle carefully with a moderately decent, solid control scheme, and you've got yourself a ready-to-delight Double Dragon Neon. This thing isn't just a love letter to its predecessors, it's a frickin' POWER BALLAD with a full symphonic orchestra backing it up to everything that was awesome about the old Double Dragon games, while at the same time imbued with certain modern flairs that complement very well the whole retro look and feel, creating an amalgamation of 80's, 90's and 2000's feeling that's sure to leave anyone who remembers the oldies more than well satisfied.

And that bloody ending is just something entirely else unto itself. I'll readily admit the WTF factor on my WTF-o-meter was off the scales on that one.