Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 10: Technos Collection
Going from Renegade, to Double Dragon, to this has been a nice uphill ride of it all as once again, this game improves on the previous one by quite a bit.
For a start the graphics are mostly better, the controls are overall cleaner, theres more moves to perform when fighting and levels feel snappier and quicker, despite there being a lot more of them than before. Its mostly an improvement.
However its still got its fair share of issues, while graphics are mostly better, theres now a lot more flicker around the place, the occasional bit of slowdown also rears its head at times. Difficulty the game is also harder overall and the lack of checkpoints and continues makes trying to clear out the game without save states a bit of a bugger.
I'll also knock the game for its higher emphasis on platforming... While for the most part its not too much of an issue, the engine clearly isnt designed fully around it so theres the odd moment where the jumping mechanics shit the bed and cause more grief than needed.
Still though, its overall a pretty decent beat-em-up for the NES and its surprising me since for ages I presumed I deathly hated all of the Technos stuff. Huh.
Going from Renegade, to Double Dragon, to this has been a nice uphill ride of it all as once again, this game improves on the previous one by quite a bit.
For a start the graphics are mostly better, the controls are overall cleaner, theres more moves to perform when fighting and levels feel snappier and quicker, despite there being a lot more of them than before. Its mostly an improvement.
However its still got its fair share of issues, while graphics are mostly better, theres now a lot more flicker around the place, the occasional bit of slowdown also rears its head at times. Difficulty the game is also harder overall and the lack of checkpoints and continues makes trying to clear out the game without save states a bit of a bugger.
I'll also knock the game for its higher emphasis on platforming... While for the most part its not too much of an issue, the engine clearly isnt designed fully around it so theres the odd moment where the jumping mechanics shit the bed and cause more grief than needed.
Still though, its overall a pretty decent beat-em-up for the NES and its surprising me since for ages I presumed I deathly hated all of the Technos stuff. Huh.