Mega Drive Longplay [077] Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone

Played By: BimmyLee83 I’ll start by saying I’ve always liked the NES version of Double Dragon III. The realism and difficulty are exactly what appealed to me about that game and what alienated so many others. Like the previous DD’s, I loved the music and also being able to play as the defeated bosses. I’ll admit there are some legit gripes about it (the watered-down moveset being my main gripe) and it certainly isn’t as good as the first two NES games, but that isn’t to say it’s TERRIBLE. I never understood why people hate it so adamantly, other than its difficulty, reduced moveset, and the fact that AVGN bashed it (bandwagoners). Anyhoo, stepping off my soapbox, to each his own. :) This was probably the most accurate port of the arcade version (that I’VE played, leastways). Sadly, it’s a port of the absolute worst Double Dragon arcade game so it succeeds for all the wrong reasons. All the problems that plagued the notoriously horrible quarter-muncher were carried over to th