Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Acclaim's 1990 NES game, Double Dragon II: The Revenge.

Played through on the Shadow Master difficulty level.

A year after Billy Lee saved his girlfriend from The Shadow Warriors, the underworld organization strikes back. Marian has been murdered, and the city finds itself once again under siege. Billy teams up with his twin brother, Jimmy, and together, they set out on a quest for revenge.

Like they did with the NES adaptation of the first Double Dragon (   • Double Dragon (NES) Playthrough  ), Technōs took a liberal approach to "porting" its arcade sequel to Nintendo's 8-bit console.

The NES version of Double Dragon II supports 2P co-op play and ditches the experience system used in the first game, but the level and enemy designs have been thoroughly revamped, and a new final boss was introduced to replace the generic machine gun-toting bub that capped off the arcade game.

Having all of your moves available from the outset gives you more flexibility in how you handle the trash mobs in the earlier stages, and the ability to play with a friend gives a huge bump to the game's replayability. The graphics and the controls are sharp, the platforming-based segments give the action some much needed variety, and the cutscenes do a good job of pushing the plot along. It offers all the improvements and innovations you'd expect from a sequel.

The NES version is often considered superior to the arcade game, a view that is rather nicely underscored by Naxat's phenomenal CD-based remake for the PC Engine (   • Double Dragon II: The Revenge (PC Engine C...  ) that thoroughly trounced the mediocre Mega Drive port of the coin-op original (   • Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Genesis) Pl...  ).

Double Dragon was a classic, but the series hit its peak on the NES with this top-notch follow-up.
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