{"id":2028,"date":"2021-02-04T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/q4ebbopg3v.onrocket.site\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:43:09","slug":"double-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/blog\/double-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Doppelter Drache"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NES Game Review #7 &#8211; Double Dragon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Double Dragon,Techno&#8217;s arcade smash hit found its way to the NES in quite a different form to the original. Though I have only the most found memories of this one from a kid, it&#8217;s seen by many as the lesser port compared with other console versions. Being as this is the one I grew up, its my favourite, even over the Megadrive version which is near Arcade perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Es ist lustig, wie Erinnerung und Nostalgie funktionieren. Bis zum heutigen Tag war ich mir sicher, dass ich mich daran erinnerte, mit meinem Bruder gleichzeitig im 2-Spieler-Modus gespielt zu haben, aber es l\u00e4sst sich nicht leugnen, dass dies nur ein rundenbasierter 2-Spieler-Modus ist. Es ist irgendwie ironisch, dass diese Art von Pr\u00fcgelspielen ausstarb, als die VS-Turnierk\u00e4mpfer auf den Plan traten, da eines der fr\u00fchesten 'vs'-Kampfspiele hier als Bonusmodus enthalten war. Und Junge, ist das schlecht!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fighting may feel limited by standards of modern gaming but I still find Double Dragon very satisfying to play. With new and exciting moves being unlocked through progression, the game has a nicely balanced feel keeping the player engaged as they get to grips with new ways to kick the shit out enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some fun level design, especially in stage three, lends itself to being a more dynamic game than even the original arcade, though like its sequel, the platforming stuff is let down by the stiff controls clearly not designed for such action. I&#8217;ve had 30 years of experience with this one, so such sections aren&#8217;t so punishing for me. However the final stage starts off with one of the most unfair sections in any game. The moving bricks slide out at complete random and it is just plain luck if you get hit or not. Considering you only have 3 lives for the whole game, you can easily lose one, two or all three here if you&#8217;re unlucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when these kind of brawlers where all the rage in the arcades, and I grew up on a diet of them. While we had both Double Dragon games growing up, I personally completed neither. It was nice to finally put an end to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7-1000x440.jpg\" alt=\"Double Dragon Ending\" class=\"wp-image-2029\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Double Dragon Ending<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es ist lustig, wie Erinnerung und Nostalgie funktionieren. Bis zum heutigen Tag war ich mir sicher, dass ich mich daran erinnerte, mit meinem Bruder gleichzeitig im 2-Spieler-Modus gespielt zu haben, aber es l\u00e4sst sich nicht leugnen, dass dies nur ein rundenbasierter 2-Spieler-Modus ist. Es ist irgendwie ironisch, dass diese Art von Pr\u00fcgelspielen ausstarb, als die VS-Turnierk\u00e4mpfer auf den Plan traten, da eines der fr\u00fchesten 'vs'-Kampfspiele hier als Bonusmodus enthalten war. Und Junge, ist das schlecht!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[718],"tags":[181],"class_list":{"0":"post-2028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"tag-nes"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28450,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/28450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rec0ded88.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}