How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Gunstar Green]

Yeah, I've read about Super Double Dragon being an unfinished game and it really does feel that way. I never really cared for it. My favorite DD is probably the Game Boy Advance game. It felt like a version of the original arcade game at its full potential.

[Sarge]

Yep, I played through DD Advance again over the break. It's really, really good. Kind of a remix of all the best ideas from the various versions, all in one package.

[marurun]

So true. Not my favorite Double Dragon (that's III on the NES), but probably the pinnacle of the series.

[Tanooki]

I really wish I still had my DD Advance cart. It's one of the more spendy stand alone GBA games these days outside of the really crazy scalped stuff like Ninja Five-O.

All this talk about Super DD though, I never did get around to finding that one in the cheaper days out west so I've never played it. I guess you all kind of really like it enough, but it looked generic to me. The Final Fight games were more my speed as was for a time Captain Commando, and I'll admit it Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R for SFC I had imported. I also got into those Jaleco brawlers they butchered you spoke of earlier too which ended in Peace Keepers.

I'm sure you're aware of this but those hit and miss quality guys at retro-bit have that portable Gameboy Advance knockoff coming, but along side of that there are multi-carts. There's the GB one (also packed in with that system), a NES one, and SNES. The SNES would have those brawlers on it. All 3 carts are $20 a piece as a complete in retail box like it's the 90s again setup. Given the going rate on much of anything on that cartridge it's a steal.

[SNESdrunk]

Yeah, I've read about Super Double Dragon being an unfinished game and it really does feel that way. I never really cared for it.

It's disappointing because it could've been a cool spectacle, the ideas are in place, like the glass elevators... which already have smashed holes in them, I guess? I think the idea was for the enemy to smash through. There's tons of stuff in that game where you can't help but think, "Huh, that would've been cool had it been done right." That said I do love the Van Damme-ish block-kick-backkick-kick move.

[ExedExes]

DD Advance does look nice, but the price still drives me away from it. If it's just as good as River City Ransom EX I'm in, and I'm sure it is, being from MILLION.

I do have an affinity for those Rushing Beat games. I think Ran is the best (Brawl Brothers), you can even play the Japanese version with a code on it. The branching paths and various character interactions in Shura are especially good. The Angry Mode makes all the games great, a way to reward the sometimes cheap hits in all the games.

[Tanooki]

Well if you love those games then that Jaleco licensed package for $20 probably would be a no brainer to pick up unless you just have to have an original 90s cart to be happy. I guess Retro-bit bought the Jaleco name/IP or they got some licensing deal with whoever bought the scraps when it failed.


DDAdvance isn't as good as River City Ransom EX at all. It's a really nice brawler, and I think someone said it, it's just the old arcade game with like twice the stages to make it feel more rounded out, a true final package release. I find I feel like it gets a little too long for its own welcome after a bit, but it's a solid title.

[Sarge]

I actually like it quite a bit more than River City Ransom EX. I'm not entirely sure what they changed with the physics of that game, but it just doesn't feel quite right to me compared to RCR. It just doesn't feel as "meaty", if that makes any sense.

Yeah, though, if you're looking for any RPG elements, you're not going to find it in DD Advance. It's strictly an eight-stage arcade jaunt. Which, of course, makes it twice as long as the original arcade game, and it plays really smoothly to boot.

I like DD3 on NES a lot, but it's so difficult that I stress out playing it. I can beat it, mind you, but you really have to do some careful health management to get through. And make dang sure you've got Billy with plenty of health at the end, because that cyclone kick is what will save your tail.

[marurun]

I think RCR is more fun, but the stupid morality system hinders it, meaning you can't use any of the really fun powers to abuse the game.

[nightrnr]

There's a third entry in that "series" called Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure for Game Boy. I find all those games brutally hard. I like isometric viewpoints when it's a clicky WPRG or whatever... but for a precision-based puzzle-platformer... Oh man is it rough.

Had no idea.
Solstice never gripped me like Equinox, so I doubt that Game Boy game would do much for me either (needs that 16-bit touch up). Gonna' try it anyways, probably.

Isometric games are tricky when platforms are concerned. But I liked Landstalker a lot, so it can be done well. But maybe there are just less frustrating moments.
...hmm, Ladystalker is on my SD2SNES, I think...