Double Dragon: Neon (PSN, XBLA)

[Shou]

WayForward's Batman: TBATB had good fighting system mechanics and plenty of potential for juggles but I can't recall an example of a good Western developed pure beat'em up ever.

[bVork]

TMNT on GBA was pretty good.

[jyoung]

I thought people liked Contra 4 and Aliens: Infestation?

Didn't Wayforward do good on those?

[No One]

Looks pretty shitty! Why the CG instead of proper 2D art? The animation is actually too fluid - there's no real weight or impact to any of the attacks.

[Chux]

Throwing made me throw the controller. (almost) The weightless remark is 100% dead on, when I played this with Korly at Pax it was like paper dolls fighting.

[bVork]

Urgh. That music sounds like something from a shitty Casio. And the overfluid animation looks like a drawback - animation cancelling looks like garbage thanks to the tons of frames.

[Low]

I thought people liked Contra 4 and Aliens: Infestation?

Didn't Wayforward do good on those?

Contra 4, the Mighty series, Boy and his Blob, and Shantae: Risky's Revenge are great games. Thor and Aliens are worthy of a playthrough as well.

[Korly]

Movement is hella sluggish.

In addition to the baseball bat, whip, and grenade, the hair clip falls out of the fro of the black dude when you attack him and then you can throw it like a knife.

[sleeve]

Contra 4, the Mighty series, Boy and his Blob, and Shantae: Risky's Revenge are great games. Thor and Aliens are worthy of a playthrough as well.

Mighty Switch Force is pretty clever, and worth playing (especially for its low price), but Contra 4 is massively overrated. Dual screen gameplay = cheap deaths aplenty. Thor looks great but the gameplay is just bad: repetitive, cheap, and slow as fuck. Aliens is OK but really really really short.

[Chux]

Screenshots are not up to usual Wayforward standard but interested to see where this goes.

And ladies commence the Linda cosplaying PLZ....

It's a thong btw.