Double Dragon: Neon
A fun, absurdist beat ‘em up with some glaringly rough edges. Neon is one of the better beat ‘em ups out there, peppered with jokes lampooning its own franchise as well as the ’80s in general, counterbalanced by some irritatingly sloppy pieces. Namely all its cutscenes, ending, and 8 company logos being unskippable. Since so much of the humor is based on novelty, there are a lot of diminishing returns that just aren’t designed for these drawn out, repeat viewings… which the game is centered around with a stat-grinding system.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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I’ve read and heard many criticisms about this game and do not quite understand them. I will try and address them and give my opinion as to why this is probably one of the top three Double Dragon games.
**Graphics:
Solid art design, although some of the enemies are a bit more cartoony than previous DD designs, the colors, backgrounds, animations and effects are pretty solid. The game mixes 3D models with the occasional 2D background object, The alley level is particularly nice. Varied environments and enemies with vibrant colors.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
Asterix & Obelix XXL 3 - The Crystal Menhir
It’s a very good and fun game for coop for two kids or a parent and a kid. Even though the coop experience is diminished by poorly thought way of handling camera when the two heroes are far apart .
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- great graphics,
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- great sound ,
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- great level design , alternating between quests, puzzles , fights
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- good dialogues ,
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- good story,
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- dogmatix is adorable and fierce!! ,
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- fun fights with many options
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- Fakeusnewus , Econimicrasious and other funny characters
– Real player with 203.4 hrs in game
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I have been a huge fan of Asterix since my childhood. Played XXL 1 many many times and 2 sporadically and loved them very much.
This game is a disgrace to Asterix (XXL). The developers didn’t attempt to make a 3D game like the other two games have been and made some random “mobile top down” game for the quick cash grab. The menu interface is even ripped off straight out of the XXL 2 remaster. No effort put into it in any way.
The game looks nice, going for the collectibles is very fun and bringing back a specific Roman from the very first Asterix comic (and animated movie) is a great touch. I think that is about all covering the positives of this game.
– Real player with 26.2 hrs in game
Rampage Knights
EDIT: There’s always more clean-up.
This is a Rogue-lite beat-‘em-up with online multiplayer. Wait, what? “Rogue-likes” are games that where you navigate a procedurally generated (that is, randomized each time) dungeon without saving, each attempt starts from scratch. A “Rogue-lite” game like this lets you unlock better starting abilities based on progress from your previous attempts.
You’re an adventurer returning from a successful dungeon raid, when a necromancer steals all your loot. Time to march to the necromancer’s tower and have a word with him about that. You’ll just have to use whatever you pick up along the way.
– Real player with 164.7 hrs in game
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You loved Castle Crashers? You couldn’t get enough Binding of Isaac? Well, then here’s just another game made for you!
Searched for a game a friend of mine and me could play together, and found just the game. It may not be something fancy, with lots of awesome looking particles and fx, but it’s so charming in it’s own way. A 2D brawler game that is actually quite challenging, since it has a rogue-like playstyle… and maybe some meanies in between.
The way of style is, may I say, quite lovely kept. Even though there is a lot of blood, whether it’s your own because your friend keeps hitting you while you go for a sandwich, or more preferably the one of your enemies, it still has that little something that doesn’t make it completly “senseless”-slaying looking.
– Real player with 98.5 hrs in game
Green Dragon/グリーンドラゴン
Green Dragon is a side scrolling beat em up featuring 16-Bit Retro graphics and a banging techno sound track.
If you like games similar to streets of rage, final fight and of course Double Dragon you will appreciate this game.
The game is still in early development and its literally only half a level long and prone to bugs like enemies walking up a building, towards the sky out of the player boundary, and also prone to random restarts, but its already showing some awesomeness.
I especially cheered when the game paid a little Amiga homage on boot up, nice touch DEV :)
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
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Good things:
The game is working or at least the first part of the first level that was made so far. The sound and music is also working. Character sprites for one of 2 characters are also working and sprites of one enemy that we meet are also working. There is also 1 weapon you can pick up, 1 food item and 2 items giving points. You can walk and hit with fist or jump or even jump and kick! Pixelated graphic is nice and good looking. The good thing is that you can finish the game and get all 5 achievements right now in under 15 minutes.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Streets of Fury EX
This is the most fun I’ve ever had with a beat ‘em up.
Streets of Fury EX certainly doesn’t have the ambiance of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara, or the soundtrack of Streets of Rage, or the visuals of Capcom’s Alien vs Predator.
But what the game lacks in artistic and technical prowess, it makes up for with its zany humour, large cast of playable characters, and awesome gameplay depth.
Each character feels very unique, and though a few can feel underpowered, they’re still interesting in their own right. The combo system is super flexible - way more than I ever expected! Chain combos, special moves, dash and jump cancels, juggles, OTGs, and the coming update even adds parries to the mix. Hell we’re still finding new ways to do amazing, super damaging combos!
– Real player with 333.0 hrs in game
I sunk a huge amount of time into the original Xbox 360 version of the game, and Streets of Fury is one of my favourite indie games from last gen. I was pretty amped to discover that they were planning on doing a PC version of this, so I’ve been patiently waiting…
Streets of Fury is a throwback to late 80’s - early 90’s arcade style beat-em ups done in the style of games like old-skool Mortal Kombat using digitized sprites. Streets of Fury sports a very competent and deep combo system that is simple and pick-up-and-playable for beginners, while more experienced players can string together ridiculously long combos that look like something out of a high level MvC2 or Skullgirls match…
– Real player with 26.4 hrs in game
Bloody Zombies
I’ve always enjoyed Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Final Fight and all the classics beat’m up….
This game has all those mechanics that I loved …you could grab the enemies, you could run and hit them, you could pick guns…enemies have different attacks that when mixed will really push you to kill some first before others and other tactics….so …let me tell you guys: THE BEAT’M UP PART IS THERE and IS REALLY FUN TO PLAY!
now…add to that the VR part….wooooow
I’m REALLY ENJOYING IT IN VR but I could show you videos/screenshots and you will not still understand the sensation.
– Real player with 16.0 hrs in game
I personally don’t like a brawler type of games and Bloody Zombies is that kind of game. But if you have up to 3 friends under the same roof or over the internet. This game is good fun. There is also an option to play with other Steam users and it is a fun alternative way to play this game.
Too bad when you die and don’t have continues left. You need to start the whole level from the beginning and it is sometimes frustrating and you will beg for better checkpoint to levels (Even one in the middle way of the map)
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle
i bought this mainly for online coop but overall i enjoyed my experience.
what i liked
-collection of great games.
-2 player online coop plays has no lag, feels smooth like local coop in my opinion.
-drop in/drop out feature lets players connect midgame, you don’t have stay in a lobby doing nothing while waiting for online player to join, you can play the game while waiting and don’t have to restart from level 1 when someone joins.
-options to adjust game difficulty and ### of lives/continues.
– Real player with 71.6 hrs in game
Rather than reviewing each of the games in this collection, this will be a brief overview of the bundle itself. I’ve only played few credits as of writing this, but it seems to be sufficient for a general feel of the collection. If my opinion changes I’ll modify this review as needed.
This is a collection of seven arcade beat ‘em ups: Final Fight, Captain Commando, The King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, Warriors of Fate, Armored Warriors, and Battle Circuit. The Japanese and international versions of each game are available. The inclusion of Armored Warriors and Battle Circuit is particularly nice as I believe this is the first official release of those games outside of arcades.
– Real player with 38.3 hrs in game
Castle Crashers®
This game is absolutely amazing and is under looked, it deserves a lot more credit and is so much fun to play with your friends.
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game
Was looking for games then this gem popped up. It’s really fun with friends, would recommend for a group of friends looking for games
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
Dusty Revenge:Co-Op Edition
Dusty REvenge: co-op i’ll start off with the bad. P.S. This is my first review.
Cons.
This game has alot of problems from the Shaky cam; to the framerate dorp when your playing with another person, and finally the voice acting.
Last but not least the fact that you need to download openAL just to get the sound working.
But strangely i have to recommend this game if you can get passed that like i did.
Pros
The Combat is really good but not too easy where it’s just buttion mashing.
The cutscenes and art in the levels look really well done.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game
I’ll start by stating that this game is truly addictive and captivating.
Why?
I believe many of those who have tried this game had realized that the combo system is pretty well thought out.
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The number of variations it has is amazing - For each level your character gains, there would be roughly 3 moves to play around with.
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It easy to pick up - a leveling system was cleverly put in place so that players get to master their current moves and think of ways to use them before leveling up.
The SUPPORT in this game isn’t anything like a cheap bomb clearing the entire screen of enemies. It allows an alternative way to play this game with clever obstacles that require you to use them. Trust me, if you play hard you would definitely use them pretty often.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
Final Exam
Basically, buy it because it’s cheap might eventually lead to Mighty Rocket doing an Obscure 3.
Core gameplay is fun, the beat ‘em up parts work pretty well, the characters are samey but have slight differences. Mostly, one “Always on” skill and some special moves, and the damage they deal with specific weapons. It’s more fun with friends, but so is anything up to and including getting slaughtered by an ax-wielding maniac. Even the weapons are pretty samey, but it’s fairly straightforward to start whacking enemies and never get touched, stringing S combos together in no time.
– Real player with 57.9 hrs in game
This game right here - 2.5D Side-scrolling PERFECTION, An absolute PERFECTION.
Plays like a dream, its flawless in almost every departement (the important ones :P) and if you like side scrolling games you will not be able to put it down once you start playing. And dont give up, like I have few years ago - when you unlock some skills, get better weapons and get some practice - it becomes unadulterated pleasure to play.
As Graphics goes, it looks absolutely beautiful for what it is, its cartoonish, but that fits soooooo much. Letter fonts, menus, post mission screens looks like you are in some comic. Reminds me of Batman Arkham Asylum style, and this one here is even better. It runs like a charm, no frame drops to speak of, not a single bug, glitch, crash…its just works…like and old school mercedes. Even when all hell is breaking lose on the screen, with explosions, enemies coming for all sides, up, down…nothing will come in the way of your fast reactions, and you will need quick dodging reactions here, especially on harder diff. levels, or when going for high combo counts.
– Real player with 24.7 hrs in game