The title comes from the first episode of the 1993 TV series. However, the Jaguar version received negative reception from reviewers, who felt that the port did not improve upon the graphics and audio from the 16-bit versions and had a needlessly difficult controls layout. Critics felt it was an unexceptional but respectable clone of Street Fighter II and gave positive comments in regards to the graphics and the sprite quality. Technōs would eventually produce their own fighting game based on the 1994 live-action Double Dragon film for the Neo Geo the following year, simply titled Double Dragon.ĭouble Dragon V: The Shadow Falls received mixed reception since it was released for the SNES and Genesis.
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Unlike previous games in the series, which were side-scrolling beat 'em ups, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls is a head-to-head fighting game based on the Double Dragon animated series in the style of Capcom's 1991 arcade-hit Street Fighter II. It is an American-produced sequel to the Double Dragon series by Technōs Japan, who had little to no credited involvement in the development of the game outside of licensing the IP to the publisher outside Japan. It was released for the Atari Jaguar by Telegames the following year. It's too bad that Tradewest destroyed the franchise with this crap.Single-player, multiplayer (up to two players)ĭouble Dragon V: The Shadow Falls is a fighting game developed by Leland Interactive Media and published by Tradewest for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis in 1994. Michael Donovan and Scott McNeil were not bad either. He could had used that talent as a Highlander villain instead of playing goody two-shoes Watcher, Joe Dawson (or maybe he could have a double role as well). Jim Byrnes makes a wonderful villain with his deep voice. The anti-drugs messages and voices are the only good part about this show. None of the supporting characters or villains were actually from the video game and the ones that were bore no resemblance with their videogame counterparts. I thought Double Dragon was about martial arts. Instead, they fought with magical swords instead. Billy and Jimmy wore ridiculous looking costumes and they didn't even use their martial arts. The animation was bad, the music was cheesy and the writers has obviously never touched a Double Dragon game in their life. This is one of the worst adaptation a video game could have. Then they wear ridiculous looking costumes. Jimmy is betrayed by the Shadow Master, so he becomes a good guy, teams up with Billy and unleash the power the Dragon Sword together, which splits in two. The Shadow Master kills off Abobo and Willy and replaced them with more incompetent bad guys (none which were actually featured in the videogames). In the series, we learn that Jimmy is actually a pawn of a guy called the Shadow Master (who looks nothing like his NES counterpart).
However, Jimmy and Billy's female cop girlfirend, Marian, are kidnapped by the Shadow Warriors and Billy managed to beat the Shadow Bosses' two henchmen: Abobo and Willy and confronts the Shadow Boss, who at the end turns out to be Jimmy (surprise, surprise).
It seems that everythings that happens to Billy, also happens to Jimmy (this includes stains on clothes). I don't remember much after that, except that Billy gets reunited with his long-lost twin brother, Jimmy. As a result, the old master advices Billy that he must leave (actually he dies, but they can't use that word in a Saturday Morning Cartoon), so Billy must take the Dragon Sword and protect Metro City (Ed's Note: W.A.M! I though this was based on Double Dragon, not Final Fight) from a group called the Shadow Warriors. Billy Lee is a martial artist who was raised by a wise old master. The pilot episode is loosely based on the NES version of the first Double Dragon (noticed the word loosely). A company called Tradewest took over the franchise in the U.S and they made this abomination of an animated series (among several other abominations) that eventually destroyed the franchise. While it was not the first of it's kind (Technos' Kunio-Kun came first), it was very popular and spawned three sequels at the Arcade and three home versions for the Famicom/NES and even a Super Famicom-only sequel, Return of Double Dragon. Double Dragon was originally an Arcade game by the late Technos Japan Corp., about two brothers trying to save their girl from a street gang.
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