Is Super Double Dragon Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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The mechanics of this game were ahead of their time. This game is still fun to play today.
My parents got me and my brother this game with our SNES Christmas of 1992. First game I played on my SNES once it was hooked up. Still one of my fondest childhood memories.
One of the best games I have ever played and beautiful memories playing this with my Brother Shan, he passed away 2 years ago in his sleep, and today would be his 42nd bithday. Miss you big brother, and thanks for the great memories with super double dragon. If anyone has not given this game a try, i would recommend it.
I recall being impressed by the detailed backgrounds as a kid. The game looked really great.
I have the Super Famicom Version. It's sick that the spin kick hits your enemy multiple times. An ending would be nice, but the game play is pretty great. Everyone points out the block mechanic, it doesn't work on half the characters, but I beat this game on hard mode the first time that I played it, and still go back to it. Fun game for sure
The slower gameplay isn't a bad thing in my opinion. Super Double Dragon is my favorite Beat'em Up ever and one of my favorite Super NES games. Thanks for the video.
The Japanese version (Return of Double Dragon) had lots of changes: The music is is in proper order, rather than shuffled around (Mission 5 plays the Double Dragon theme in Super Double Dragon), The final stage is longer (has two sections before the final boss), has options mode, weapons do less damage, and has different enemy placement.
I would say the JP version is superior overall
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Does the Japanese version have an ending?
Hurricane kick in RoDD is completely broken making the game too easy. You can kill normal enemies with that single move the entire game and without risk.
@@louiskeiflin5858 No it sure doesn't. Just played it the other night and was kind of pissed that it didn't.
For some reason Technos decided to release the game in the west first. For all intents and purposes we got a beta release.
I always loved this game, had lots of fun playing it with my brother. it's the best DD game.
I love this game, but damn, the soundtrack...still SO good after all these years.
After Final Fight 3, this ranks among my fave fighters on the SNES. I love how technical it is, how one wrong move sees you getting the shit kicked out of you. There's no way to block anything if you're not ready and it feels a lot closer to real fighting then the walk, kill everything, walk of most scrollers. Add to that the beautiful graphics and this is a master showcase of arcade gaming on our beloved system.
Great game. One of my fav beat 'em up in SNES.
CCAtercero The Peace Keepers is amazing. You unlock new characters as you go and there are alot of options on which direction you can go.
Unfortunatelly we dont have The Peace Keepers in Spain but I will took a look at it. Thanks for the recomendation @Erick Shafer
super combatribes
@@emfs9522 I have that game!
if you beat the final boss with orbot you'll get the diagnostic of why the boss got beat
This was the very first video game I ever played besides educational games when I was around 3 years old. For some reason I always remembered this. Love your videos!
Best Double Dragon game hands down! I hope they remaster this some day.
Double Dragon advance is my favorite, this is definitely my second though.
Just came out
@TobeyStarburst yo good looking out!
@@MikeHawke47 let me know how u like it it has turbo mode
This channel keeps getting better & better. Though unfortunately one day you'll run out of SNES games which is why I'm glad you're branching out into other consoles. So many great 16 bit games on all consoles & even on next gen consoles.
Just a minor thing... those aren't Kendo sticks. I'm pretty sure they're Bo Staffs. Sorry for nitpicking!
I mean, you're not wrong though. Good comment. 👍🏻
Bo! You don't know diddly!
I randomly found your channel during a search I did to find some good SNES games from my childhood that I may have forgotten about as I just bought a classic and plan to “mod” it. And I just want to let you know that I absolutely LOVE your content. I’ve already binge watched a ton of your videos and you’ve enlightened me to a shit ton of games that look great which I had absolutely no idea existed. As back in the day all I had was a Nintendo Power subscription and all my friends were equally as clueless. So thank you so, so much for making all this great content and keep up the amazing work. You’ve got a new subscriber for sure and I’ll spread the word about your channel to my friends.
Thanks for taking the time to watch
Looks like a good game, I loved double dragon 2 on the NES
+The Gunman
It's on the NES Classic Edition, which is being re-released this summer! I wasn't able to get one the first time around, so I'm really looking forward to picking one up this summer (hopefully).
Fluoride Jones that's great news, I hope they make it to Australia too, they were going for crazy money on eBay.
King Savage I also loved battle toads back in the day
The Gunman yeah agree , absolute classic
Yep, the best one.
This game is my favorite in the series
One of my all time fav games on the snes!
Same here, as a kid I always thought the number of different attacks was amazing!
When I was younger I always wanted them to release a beat em up based on the anime/film Guyver it was one of my favourite films at the time.
I still love it nowadays and would love for a Guyver game to be developed
Surprisingly its one I almost never see at retro shops around me. Worth a playthrough on an emulator at the least
Drink a Beer and Play a Game The game is hard to find. And when you do find a copy, it's quite expensive. I found a copy at a local game store for about $75. And it was just the cartridge only.
Drink a Beer and Play a Game -Once I owned the CIB package when it first came out. Sold it when I needed more money to buy newer games, but I have a cartridge version now without the box.
I recommend the Japanese version, it is way better.Called Return of Double Dragon.
This is one of my favorite games.. and beat em ups. I like the fact that unlike other beat em ups (like final fight or other like this one) when you hit an enemy every hit they react differently depending on how you attack them its not like hitting a just a sack like those other games. So this adds a little bit of strategy and playing multiplayer makes it more fun. But it isnt perfect clearly.. like you mentioned the speed is kinda slow, I would fix that with adding a run button (there are two shoulder button using the sam thing) or double tapping the d pad like in DD3. And yes.. there are very few enemies. DD3 team movements also would've been a great addition. My personal favorite is the japanese version.
I love this game! I agree that it's got a more deliberate pace than Turtles in Time, but I think the combat being much deeper makes it almost as good as that game. Also, the Japanese version is pretty different (and better!). I did a video comparing the US version to the Japanese version a couple years ago: czcams.com/video/iD1CTjtym3o/video.html
Very cool. I was unaware of those changes, although I realize now that when I was watching someone stream it a while back that they were playing the Japanese version because they had made it to that final boss room.
There's also Return Of Double Dragon Kencho hack that adds more improvements to the game.
What does it add?
From Romhacking.net
www.romhacking.net/hacks/3288/
- The Dragon Power Meter now increases 33% faster.
- Billy and Jimmy’s basic attacks (just pressing punch or kick) are now two frames faster for better responsiveness.
- Blocking is no longer timed. It is done just by holding the blocking button, in the fashion of other games like Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur.
- If the defense button is held when another move is finished, will start blocking immediately. The blocking condition is not the button press, but the button hold.
- Blocking while holding a weapon will now drop it and enter the “defensive” mode.
- The R button is now used for blocking, instead of increasing the Dragon Power Meter.
Thanks! I think I saw that video before.
Love these vids,mate. I never had a snes as a kid but i always wanted one. Now i have a pi. These vids help me choose which games to play. Thanks,dude.
Thanks for taking the time to watch
I'm actually surprised by the amount of love for this game in the comments. I rented it one time with my buddy back in junior high and although it wasn't horrible, it was certainly one I didn't bother renting again.
In the 30 years since, every time I revisit it on an emulator, I am reminded just how bad it is, especially in comparison to Final Fight, Turtles In Time and Streets of Rage, all of which took that torch and ran with it. They all refined the beat-em-up formula so well that they ended up leaving the original innovator in the dust.
Double Dragon 1 and 2 were fairly good on NES, but between III and Super, this franchise was old news by '92. I tried it again last night and it is a slog.
Favorite beat em ups on SNES:
(1)Super Double Dragon/Return of Double Dragon
(2)Final Fight series
(3)Ninja Warriors
(4)Hagane(Hack n slash and beat em up)
(5)Art of Fighting 2(bonus stage is side scrolling beat em up)
(6)Rival Turf
Aaahhh good times!
Top3 beat'em up of the SNES for me.
This game feels so "advanced" because of the many atk possibilities. I just love playing it!
Yes it is best double dragon game ever
markothulander no the arcade version was
John Holland oh hell no this game had every thing like the counter block grabble, punches and kicks, plenty of weapons, Power up meter to do spinning kick or get powered up.
Nah man, DD II: The Revenge is still the best one imo.
Damn True!
This was the best Double Dragon Game I ever played. (The Japanese version) the music alone made this thing a classic worth playing.
My brothers and I were huge fans of Double Dragon II, so we rented this one immediately upon seeing it. At first, we were underwhelmed by the artwork, which wasn't nearly as eye-catching as Final Fight. However, we quickly realized that the game was unparalleled in options for badassery. The whole night was just accidental discovery. "Holy crap, check this out!" There was mounds of visceral satisfaction in catching an enemy's punch, back kicking his friend into submission and then hurling one guy at the other. Also, dem nunchucks...
This is one of my favorite games on the SNES. You can't help the last limited enemies, look at how much detail the levels have, and how developed the fighting mechanics were in that game. They were literally pushing the SNES and the cart based format to it's limits. I am still impressed with this game
I love when you review the games from my childhood. Great video.
I had DD3 on PC back in the day. It was like one of the only games I had at home for whatever reason. So it has a spot in my heart. Hard AF though, young me rarely got past the third stage.
The gameplay is what makes this DD stand out and at the same time is what some players hated because of the technicalities. In essence, now there's "fight choreography" and you just don't mash buttons, but the brothers are specialized to attack and defend with a variety of forms and this made the experience kinda like an interactive fighting movie (which was incredibly exciting for me back then, because I already loved movies or anything that had more elaborated fighting).
Muneki Ebinuma, Koji Ogata, Naritaka Nishimura are credited behind this mechanic.
Ebinuma you might know to have recorded live-choreography movement for the Yakuza 3 game, Fist of the North Star (Lost Paradise) and has actually being a Planner for the OG DD games. Ogata for the graphic stuff and Nishimura for coding them. It's a three guy team doing something extremely memorable for a beloved franchise!
Our rulers are not human. czcams.com/video/kYopHp14pFo/video.html
I liked double dragon 3 back then. You had more than one life each character was a life and I beat that game with no issues at age 10 lol
I also like Double Dragon 3. People give up too easily.
Ruudos yea the games had simply a good challenge it wasn't even the hardest of the games back then. I find that alot of modern gamers who ether were too young to play games back in the 80s and 90s or simply weren't born complain alot about these games that simply give a good challenge. I mean I beat this game at age 10 lol how hard could it have been I was in elementary school! Pansy ass candy ass gamers whining!
Double Dragon 2 was my personal favorite. Double Dragon 3 At first I was quite annoyed the fact that you have only one life but after awhile the game grew on me and i realized you can earn three lives after fighting off those two bosses. But looking back now I can see that the gameplay went left from the other Double Dragon sequels.
jaythehumble keys I will agree it's the most different one and double Dragon 2 was my favorite one too but I still enjoyed part 3
DD3 is without a doubt my fave on nes, simply because if felt more like a real beat'em up , rather than an action platformer, also no one seems to mention how much the music is great...and yes, u have 3 lives if u count the other heroes, and it becomes easy when u know how to deal with each enemy....people just don't bother to learn and adapt....DD2 was cool but DD3 is what i like the most....especially that ending music :)
As a major fan of DD since my childhood, through all the NES games I've owned, traded, and sold DD 1-3 are the only games I've consistently owned. I love all three original NES games, the second being my favorite. BUT, Super Double Dragon bites the big one!!!!!!!!!!!! I've really tried to love this game, and when I first got an SNES it was the first game that I bought. Really, I got very tired of trying so hard to love a game that is just a trudge through redundant enemies who have virtually the same patterns and take forever to kill. Special moves? Come on! The spin kick and the charge moves do no more damage than any normal attack that I ever noticed. Using the charged punch simply knocks an enemy down which in turn extends their life by waiting for them to get back up again due to unforgivably slow game play. Honestly, I felt like I was spending a disproportionate amount of time waiting for enemies to get up from the ground compared to when I was actually attacking them. This would have been forgivable if a ground and pound attack was an option. The only draw that I could still see for this game is that the attacks and defenses are really cool, and super fun but only for a very limited amount of time. This game to me has never been anything but a chore. The extremely limited fun factor is washed up by slow gameplay, boring levels, constant waiting around to stand up or for enemies to stand up, piss poor excuses for boss fights (are the bosses any different from normal enemies? be honest here), laughable challenge/difficulty, and every level is virtually identical as well as the enemies. This game sucks. Unless DD 4 is any good (haven't played it yet), so does every DD game that was not on the NES.
I play this one occasionally to this day. However, I find that the hurricane kick is easily spammed since you only have to charge it to use, as opposed to losing part of your life like in the NES versions. And you're pretty much unstoppable once you grab nunchucks. So I really don't bother much with blocking. Just perfectly timed hurricane kicks and nunchucks bashing, and you're golden.
My brothers and I used to play this all the time. It has great settings for a beat em up
Man I freaking LOVE this game!. And yes, I am biased. This was my very first SNES game, and the moment I saw the colors of that opening stage, and the music started blasting, I knew it was worth it (had to save for quite a while to get the SNES). Then the first three enemies kicked my butt and I lost a life just like that ¨Huh?!¨. Yeah, the blocking mechanic is a core part of this. The wide range of combat moves is also a big plus. The button arrangement works great.
It took up until my 3rd playthrough until I started to realize that the game was a little... incomplete. No story, barely an ending... what are you even fighting for?. And yet, the combat is so tight that I don´t really mind. There are a ton of mods out there that add a lot of polish, including cutscenes, but the original works perfectly as a ¨The 100% action version -No Extra Bullshit¨. Insert cartridge, press start a couple times and BAM! you are kicking ass (or not, depending how fast you get the block timing).
I'm surprised you didn't mention another flaw that always bothered me when I first played the game more than 20 years ago. You even see it in your footage... when you concentrate on one enemy, other enemies just STAND THERE waiting for you to finish up. I've never seen a beat-em-up with enemies that are so well-mannered LOL
Was likely done to emphasize the importance of the block and grapple mechanic. If enemies could still actively attack you as they do in most beat-em-ups, it would make this ability almost entirely useless because of how long it takes for the animations to play out. It is not a glamorous solution, but it is a functional one.
That said, I've never played the game before, this is just my musing from watching the video and my experience with other beat-em-ups.
I remember when I got this for christmas.....65.00....but was worth every penny.....fun fact the Japanese version's super spin hit multiple times and gives you the option to have 9 lives and actual options than the american counterpart......awesome video....
The trapping and countering mechanic and also being able to strike in the other direction is one of the coolest things in any beat em up
this game never reached my local stores. And i searched for it everywhere back in the day. It took years to see more than a couple of pictures of it
Sank hours and hours into this game it was a masterpiece at its time
Great game and something different from all the other beat em ups. It did get a bit boring towards the end, but still worth a blast.
I loved that game some much even if I sucked in that game!
good old days!
This one got really bad reviews back in the day but a classmate still owned it.
I was blown away by the amount of moves and attacks that were possible compared to other beat em up scrollers like Final Fight!
It was definitely ahead of its time. I also appreciated the slow pace because it made the game feel more realistic.
Since then I’ve been waiting for a modern beat em up to take over the move set and expand on it.
Why couldn’t Mother Russia Bleeds work like this game and just put its violent and individually stylish presentation on top of it?!
Well, I guess I‘ll wait a bit longer.
Double dragon was one of mine and my brothers favorite series. The 2nd one was our favorite but we are some of the rare ones that actually did like the 3rd one.
This game is good
Irony is a weapon yup
very good
No no you've got it all wrong, you're supposed to complain because I said something about Double Dragon 3
Irony is a weapon Game is Trash👎
@@RacerNight86 maybe because your trash at it. oh the irony
Not many brawlers have a block and counter move. Very unique and cool. And it does have a lot more moves than many games in the genre. It's one of the best.
I remember renting this one and liking it at first, but it just went on and on and I never could beat it. After running out of continues, I didn't really feel like starting from the beginning again because (as mentioned in the video) the levels were long.
Still, what I liked about it was its slower pace compared to most of the other street brawlers at the time. It really set itself apart there. It's definitely worth a revisit.
I loved playing this game 2P co-op. Also, the remixed soundtrack was superb!
it is a good beat em up for sure. the variety of attacks is what makes it special
All flaws aside. It's a solid beat-em-up. Ten year old me was thoroughly impressed. The graphics, the complex (compared to other brawlers of the era) defense-minded combat system, sfx, and bgm blew my mind. It's worth a go if you're curious about it.
Yes Super Double Dragon is definitely worth playing today and tomorrow and next week and so on and so on.😎👍🎮
This and Turtles in Time were the best beat em ups on the Super Nintendo.... period!! And I was very pissed they weren't packed in with the Super Nintendo Classic. I've played many beat em ups over the years and I gotta say, this is one I had a lot of fun with. Technos got it right with this one and then some. I really wish they'd do an HD remake of this game like they did with ninja warriors. Shit I wish they'd just bring both TMNT 1 and 2 to PSN!!
DD3 for the NES is my favorite beat' em up.
happy to know u exist :) dd3 is the bomb.
Double D three baby!
Yes!
I like how the moves on this have look like technical fights
This is one of my favorite beat em ups of all time!
Stunning is also as important as blocking in this game. Without stuns, you won’t perform your finishers on enemies. They allow grabs and major damage in order to finish enemies quickly.
Love how many options you have with this game.
This Game i absolutely love it, its one of my favourite games all the Time(not only SNES) whit Super Probotector. There are so much different special moves/enemies and more !
Already nes double Dragon games were very good, but this is legendary!🙂👌
Kinda sad you didn't mention the soundtrack. Fantastic
I remember the first time I popped this in with my friend. We were jubilant. Double Dragon on the SNES! Granted... I already had a 16 bit DD on the Genesis, but that is not the point. Probably about three minutes later, it was game over. Well. The difficulty of classic Double Dragon was back, and we simply weren't prepared. Days later, I could run through the game without a single continue. Brilliant game... highly underrated.
You kinda made me want to hunt this game down for my SNES, apart from the no password part, that is the only thing wrong with older games.
You don't always want to start back on the 1st level every time you plug it in.
This game had some of the original team help with Ultimate Double Dragon. A Fan made awesome game.
I loved this game as a kid and played it recently noticing the slowness. Still love this game but it didn't seem as slow back in the day. Great review!
Good review. I loved this game growing up, but I can't look at it the same way anymore in wake of the fanmade game, "Ultimate Double Dragon", which fixed every flaw this game has and revamped the combat system in a way I never imagined. In fact, I can't think of any other beat em up that has a combat system like Ultimate Double Dragon.
One of the best Double Dragons and still a good game to play today I played every now and then and it's 20 20
To me this is probably the best beat em up easily! Not a surprise its a technical brawler, it should have revolutionized the genre!
Despite its slight downfalls, I absolutely love Super Double Dragon. Maybe it's because I still look at it through the nostalgia tinted glasses of my childhood, but it's always been a fun play for me. It's also the game that made me fall in love with beat 'em ups and brawlers.
He'll yea I play this now mechanics on this game was ahead of its time it just feels so complete
Check out Legend Of Double Dragon, a fan made revamp of this game that's really well done! Please do a video on it too?
Definitely appreciated this video and your commentary. I've never played SDD before but I'm tempted to give it a go on the RetroPie and see how it plays. If I like it enough I might try and find a physical copy.
The counter/guard system reminds me of the upcoming Way of the Passive Fist game.
the music is amazing in this game
loved this game when I first played it in the 90s, CO-OP is awesome.
You know. I just realized after watching high pixel count SNES double dragon gameplay. Is it just me or are Billy and Jimmy practicing some variant of Wing Chun? Their stances and moves are so Wing Chun to me.
This game is pretty good, but the soundtrack is just fantastic.
NES DD3 is good. The only version of the game that is, actually. It just takes practice.
I was in shock when I discovered for the first time what utter shit the original arcade version was. It makes the NES port seem like Devil May Cry by comparison.
I still have the cartidge. Completed it many times. Good game
Nice!
I love this game, one of my fav beat'em ups on the SNES.
Even though I've had a rental game store I've never played this before. I need to do it now, it really looks like a wonderful game.
I loved this game cause it had so many options to fight with. I got it when it first came out back in the 90s!
I like that it's a slower game with more options in combat than many other beat em ups of the time.
Exactly why I like double dragon neon
Been curious about this one, heard some good and bad about it. Sad to hear & see how slow the gameplay is though, esp compared to Ninja Warriors and SOR2 (the 2 best 16-bit beat em ups imho). But the mechanical depth definitely seems interesting none the less. For me this is at least worth trying for sure. Just wish the devs could have created a more optimized experience for more fluid gameplay. 30fps in a 16-bit game just isn't something you hear about very often.
The mechanics were so advanced for its time and for some reason haven't been beaten in modern beat em ups. I always thought the slow speed added realism to the fighting. This was my favorite SNES game until I recently played the Japanese version Return Of The Double Dragon and now that version is my favorite. America got the inferior version for sure especially with the spinning kick hitting an enemy once instead of juggling hits.
This games was badass. My dad and I loved this game
Omfg this looks so cool can't believe I didn't play it back in the day
It looks like it also has a limit of three enemies at the same time as happens with the SNES Final Fight games.
The animations in this game are awesome!
Another omission the game had was the total lack of any story or cutscenes (which II and III had quite a few). Rumor has it were intended to be in the game, they had all the graphics produced for it but it all went discarded for lack of time to program them in the game before their deadline.
I love this game but the Japanese version is even better
Hurricane kick is completely broken in that version.
I admit the gameplay took me some time to getting used to compared to other good beat em ups but like you said, it's all about taking that different approach. This game is pretty good! Even though, I was REAL disappointed with the ending.
Responsive combat, a variety moves and charge moves you can combo together, this game was so fun despite the low FPS. I'd even say it made your hits look more impactful. Also the weapon animations look amazing.
Super double dragon is made technically great, and requires technical play. It's pretty great. The mini bosses are neat, and the bosses too.
Speaking of Final Fight, which one do you think is the best on the NA SNES? I don't really need/want all of them, so I went with 3, but just barely.
Super double dragon, Ninja warriors and Turtles in Time are the best beat em up games of the 16 bits era.
They rereleased this on the switch and ps4 and you can increase the speed. I prefer 1.1 speed. That 10 percent increase makes this game play much better.
a rare video in which he does not say "thank you for watching and have a great rest of yout day" :D