LIFE ISN’T FAIR
And other life lessons learned from Billy and Jimmy Lee in this erudite, side-scrolling, beat-em-up adventure.
Sydlexia’s Rating: #60/100
Developer: Technos Japan
My Rating: 
The beat-em-up genre defined an entire generation. Its repetitive-button smashing released personalized-serotonin hits allowing us to feel good while eschewing any actual personal development. I don’t know of any other category of video game that so easily mixes repeated motions with such a sense of accomplishment – complete entertainment with little effort.
Except when the Double Dragons are involved.
What we have here is a compact set of nine levels, beautifully architected for the pithy purpose of teaching us that life’s lottery doesn’t always come up triple 7s. A perfect compliment to my summer of mismanaged love and unfortunate living arrangements, Double Dragons II helped me cope with the idea that this isn’t all my fault.
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