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The more rugged look suits the setting well, and the music is as great as ever – the “Easy Lover” ripoff in the first stage notwithstanding.
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Overall, Double Dragon II is a worthy successor, if a little bit too similar to the original, and the one big innovation with the controls is the part that’s most off-putting about it. At the height of their jumps, Billy and Jimmy can perform a spinning kick in the air, which henceforth became one of their trademark moves in the series. Despite the weird controls, the available moves are mostly the same, with two notable exceptions: The headbutt is gone, but replaced by a much more impressive attack. The whole affair is more confusing than anything, and even if you thing you’ve mastered it, you might still get thrown off your game when things get crowded. The standard forward attack is always a punch and the standard backward attack a kick, so if you want to kick an enemy in front of your character, you first have to turn around. This may sound intuitive at first, but to anyone who’s played a beat-em-up before (and probably most anyone else, too) it’s really hard to get used to.
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So the left button always attacks left, the right button always right. The new input scheme doesn’t assign attacks to buttons in a fixed manner, but relative to the direction the player is facing. Unfortunately, the area they chose to experiment in was one that really didn’t need fixing: the controls.
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Even though there still wasn’t much competition on the market – Final Fight was yet a full year in the future – the guys at Technōs apparently felt a need to innovate at least in some way.