Double Dragon Trilogy

This game will not launch and i'm far from the only one having issues.

What you need to realize before buying this is that you're not actually buying the original games. You're buying rewritten versions with graphics filtering (aka blur) and a modern soundtrack enabled by default, as well as a modern UI while in the game itself. You can disable the filtering (which is the first thing I did since it looks terrible), and you can tell it to use more traditional sounds, but the modern UI is there to stay and there's no configuration option to make the game appear 100% genuine. I'm assuming that this is because they used filtered graphics by default, and using blurred pixel art for text would have probably looked bad. Though to be completely honest, the UI they used is just not very attractive, either. Nor is the entire menu system used to navigate the game you want to play or do the configuration, for that matter. It feels very quickly put together, complete with a somewhat annoying sound effect as you highlight literally every object in the UI. You'll probably also want to use a controller, because the default keyboard keys feel very clunky to use, particularly since there are three buttons. If you have to use the keyboard, I'd suggest at least remapping them to WASD to move and JKL for punch/kick/jump. But with all of this in mind, knowing it's not actually the original, I just couldn't have fun with it. I figured this was going to be some kind of emulator package, not a rewrite, and a mediocre rewrite at that. I feel that the description should be a bit more clear about what people are getting, because it specifically says that you're getting the "three installments of the beloved arcade series". The arcade series is indeed beloved, and that's why I feel that you should experience it the way it was meant to be, which I'm afraid you won't get from this package.

I really like this game. I played offline a lot because I do not play co-op. That said, this game really looks amazing and resembles the Arcades excellently. Game Play, Graphics, Music, Control are all very similar so don't expect refinements, they art the same way they used to be so it hasn't evolved as a game play style, some might find this limiting. I can imagine Co-Op would work fine on this and the Tag Team moves would be nice to see too. Control wise it works well with my controller and I enjoy the graphics & music. These play like they did back in the old bowling alleys and arcades. So for some they will definitely enjoy it more but do not expect any real enhancements to play or control, it is a bit stiff depending on your controller but this was par for the course when the game first came out. For older players it is well worth a buy and play. You can beat it in a fairly small session and it is well worth the price to do so. I recommend this title.

Worth the nostalgia. There are bugs - they helped me more than they hurt - and I don't know if they were from the arcades, that is, on purpose. Despite not having a list of scams and other explanations, I had fun.

I remember playing this game on Game Boy back in the day. This version is much easier, since you can restart at stage 4 with all your lives. You won't get more than a few hours of fun out of this game, and unless you're playing multiplayer, there isn't that much replay value. Still, playing the game was like playing an old arcade game with unlimited quarters. It's fun and nostalgic and over.