It's not all bad, but it plays more like a halfway decent fan game some guy made with Game Maker in his spare time than a product made by professionals and being sold for money. If you liked the old NES Double Dragon games there is stuff here you'll like, but it's pretty bare bones with bugs that haven't and will never be fixed. To give you an example of how lazy of an effort this is, the devs didn't even bother to program in a way to exit the game. You have to press Alt + F4 or close the window itself in windowed mode (and you have to press Alt + Enter to even toggle fullscreen). Aspect ratio in fullscreen can be off if you're not playing in 16:9. There's also a random bug that can erase your save data forcing you to unlock everything all over again so you have to make backups to be safe.

The hit boxes are inconsistent. Sometimes you'll have no problems hitting enemies, then other times it feels like you can't hit them at all if there's even a couple pixels difference between you and them vertically. It's very picky about you being on the same horizontal plane in order to land hits, moreso than any other beat em up game I've played, though I can't recall if the NES games were as bad so maybe it's just my memory.

If it's on sale for dirt cheap you can have fun for a few afternoons here and there, especially if you have friends that can play couch co-op with you, but it's short lived. Lack of any online multiplayer especially kills replay value. I wouldn't buy it full priced even though it's only $6.99, it's still not worth it.

Another retro beat em up that didn't deliver. So far I've also been underwhelmed by Double Dragon Neon and River City Ransom Underground. Here's hoping Streets of Rage 4 is good, but history is not on my side when it comes to retro remakes in this genre.

It's not all bad, but it plays more like a halfway decent fan game some guy made with Game Maker in his spare time than a product made by professionals and being sold for money. If you liked the old NES Double Dragon games there is stuff here you'll like, but it's pretty bare bones with bugs that haven't and will never be fixed. To give you an example of how lazy of an effort this is, the devs didn't even bother to program in a way to exit the game. You have to press Alt + F4 or close the window itself in windowed mode (and you have to press Alt + Enter to even toggle fullscreen). Aspect ratio in fullscreen can be off if you're not playing in 16:9. There's also a random bug that can erase your save data forcing you to unlock everything all over again so you have to make backups to be safe. The hit boxes are inconsistent. Sometimes you'll have no problems hitting enemies, then other times it feels like you can't hit them at all if there's even a couple pixels difference between you and them vertically. It's very picky about you being on the same horizontal plane in order to land hits, moreso than any other beat em up game I've played, though I can't recall if the NES games were as bad so maybe it's just my memory. If it's on sale for dirt cheap you can have fun for a few afternoons here and there, especially if you have friends that can play couch co-op with you, but it's short lived. Lack of any online multiplayer especially kills replay value. I wouldn't buy it full priced even though it's only $6.99, it's still not worth it. Another retro beat em up that didn't deliver. So far I've also been underwhelmed by Double Dragon Neon and River City Ransom Underground. Here's hoping Streets of Rage 4 is good, but history is not on my side when it comes to retro remakes in this genre.