Switch Reviews - Double Dragon Gaiden

Double Dragon Gaiden This a beat em up with rogue lite elements. That is NEAT. You earn cash while playing that can be used upon death to revive your characters, buy some upgrades for that run or can be hoarded to earn tokens that are used to unlock new characters and bonus content. So upfront save up your tokens so you can unlock Abobo and Linda. Because come on man who doesn't want to run amuck with Abobo and Linda? That's the real dream team.

Doing combos and finishing enemies with a special move earns you a bonus food item and depending upon the amount of enemies finished with a special move dictates what food item. So try to finish with a special to get a HOT DOG, BURGER or the full health filling STREET TURKEY. You can pick which order you take on the rival gangs which is one of the cooler aspects of this game. The later a stage is selected the longer it will be. So this breathes a little extra life into the game in that you can play stages in different order to eventually see all of the zones. So mixing and matching zones along with testing out new characters breathes a lot of life into this title. For me it's all about Linda and Billy Lee.

There's also a Survival Mode where you take on waves of enemies in increasing number and challenge. I personally did not get too much out of the Survival Mode. The final mode is a versus mode which I only dabbled with before I had unlocked any characters. Unlocking characters and stages for the versus mode also offers a fair bit of incentive to keep playing the game for me at least. I look forward to clobbering my daughter in Versus mode with Abobo.

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