Should You Buy Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle?
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- Featuring 18 classic games from across both the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (River City Ransom) franchise, and with 11 games localized for the first time, the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle is one of the most fascinating (and deceptive) retro collections released this generation. Is it worth $40? Should you buy the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun collection? Find out in today's Double Dragon & Kunio-kun review for Switch and PS4!
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This video was a small detour from the plan, but it's a collection I wanted to play anyway so it worked out! The next handful of videos will be an exciting bunch, I hope you'll enjoy them!
Hello there.. I purchased this game on PS4, to play Online Co-op with my friend. But whenever we Create a Room and share it with Each Other, we cannot Enter the Room. It shows the Room...we press connect..it takes too long and shows " Could Not Enter Room". Do you know to fix this?...Please Help
Update - We managed to Join...It was NAT Type Issue Indeed. Friend had NAT Type 3.
NAT Type 3 means Restricted Connections. He had to connect WiFi of Mobile Hotspot to get NAT Type 2. And then room connected. No speed lag.
Short answer is yes, you should buy it it has a lot of amazing games worth the price.
If you dont mind a few being in Japanese is you can get physical versions with the key games like DD and River City titles are in English in the Japanese version. In japan its called the KUNIO KUN classics collection. The Kunio Kun games are about high school gangsters and its in fact based on Japanese high school dramas. From the 80s so yeah she was in fact offering to F them.
Earlier than the 80's is what it's based on. The creator was a hot head in school. He was in school in the 60's/70's.
Wait there was a anime i found randomly while looking at hip hop instrumentals and it was 2 gangster high school kids called bebop high
They even look like the characters here
I picked this up on launch day, and can concur with pretty much everything he said. There are a couple stinkers (like the track & field games) but the majority hold up amazingly well and are a blast to play. One thing worth mentioning is that a lot of that is due to the physics. The engine most of these use had some of the best physics interactions of any 8-bit game, and you can get some really cartoony chain reactions going when the conditions are right. Which is part of how these games can still be legitimately *funny* even 30 years later.
Plus, just the sheer absurdity of the scenarios. I mean, the basketball game speaks for itself, but what about playing soccer in the rain with constant lightning zapping the players? It's like something out of the Looney Tunes. Or a no-rules, full-contact version of hockey where (especially when playing with friends) you'll spend more time walloping each other with your sticks than actually taking shots? The way the series absolutely revels in its own silliness creates much of the charm.
Hello there.. I purchased this game on PS4, to play Online Co-op with my friend. But whenever we Create a Room and share it with Each Other, we cannot Enter the Room. It shows the Room...we press connect..it takes too long and shows " Could Not Enter Room". Do you know to fix this?...Please Help
Update - We managed to Join...It was NAT Type Issue Indeed. Friend had NAT Type 3.
NAT Type 3 means Restricted Connections. He had to connect WiFi of Mobile Hotspot to get NAT Type 2. And then room connected. No speed lag.
River City Ransom is the greatest Double Dragon game
My man knows
We need more open world co op games that put fun above all else. We've been in short supply. Too many are slamming PVP on a hardcore level claim to very people to buy in on the game and micro transactions to fool people into thinking they'll be the next e sports star and spend more to get there.
So Freakin' True!
Agreed. One of my favorite NES games of all time.
Having all 3 Double Dragon games and River City Ransom are worth it for me. Also, have you ever played the arcade version of Double Dragon? It was hard as balls, but man it was fun.
I think I've played the arcade version like _once_ before, and boy oh boy the amount of quarters that game would've eaten back in the day!
All double dragons were hard.. on nes... not save function :D
YOOoo! Thanks so much for this video! I was trying to look up a review for the double dragon trilogy ports… and now I’ve just learned all about this Kunio series which blows my mind, because I remember fondly loving World Cup for my old game boy… I had NO idea it was a part of this whole series. You sold me on this bundle and I haven’t even barely touched the double dragon games since getting it lol.
They're brawler sports games. It counts. We saw plenty double dragon. It's nice as extras, but we came for the Kunio. If you want more double dragon, there's been many already sold this generation.
Would've been nice to have super double dragon and a translated version up to the japanese version of super double dragon.
The thing is, there was a Return of Double Dragon PS4 release a few years ago and a lot of people missed it because it didn't get much press release. I'm still kicking myself about that one...
As a Kunio-kun fan for years. This is worth the buy, I use to play with my brother when I was a kid all those sports games on new. I even told my brother Kunio-kun like the Japanese Mario sports games. And they were all good I loved it. So many laughs and memories. Worth the buy
Japanese/Asian version: Kunio-kun The World Classic Collection. DD games are bonuses
Western release: DD in the main title
Makes sense, Double Dragon was created because at the time it was felt that Kunio wouldn't sell in the west. It did, as Super Dodgeball and River City Ransom sold well. However, the Double Dragon games got worse as they went, Kunio titles never really disappoint.
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"And he gets invited to Smash Bros."
Perfect reveal trailer!
The title is not a lie because no mater what Kunio starts out doing it turns into a fight.
I am so happy that kunio kun series is alive again. I thought I was only the one who played the series in my childhood. I loved it. This gave me nostalgia.
Hard to get onto them these days but they will always be the most impressive experience for me ever. The old days of sneaking out of school to run to the old bus station cafe, and fumbling my ten pence into the hole so I could kick some ass!! Cheers for the video.
Came back after an hour and can finally watch the last 5 mins of the review. Good vid, helped me make my mind up on buying 😺
Glad to hear TH-cam is working again, thanks for coming back!
Thanks for the review! I like the brawlers, but I really loved super dodgeball and nintendo world cup back in the NES days. (I even tried making my own kunio kun sports game on game maker. It was like a mix between super dodgeball, nintendo world cup, and ff10 blitzball.) Looking forward to some online play.
Okay a Kunio Blitzball game is something I didn't know I wanted, Holy crap
World Cup was one of my favorite games on the NES as a kid. I had the Volleyball/World Cup combo cart.
Me too!! Oh the memories. I'm buying this just because of that. It's very similar
I think Kunio-Kun fits a Season 2 Character, with Riki, Bimmy, & Jimmy as Color Swaps.
NES DD2 alone is worth the price.
Played Nekketsu Fighting Legend with my brother who is 11 days younger than me this whole afternoon.It's an excellent nostalgic feeling after so many years,our childhood relieved.We don't get to meet much these days because we are adults now.
Great couch co op. Thanks to Nintendo for making co op alive again. Thanks to Arc for porting it in English and making us relieve the memories.
When are you gonna do another project like you did for PlayStation all stars? The amount of love and emotion you put in that 2 parter was astounding and ive re watched it like 4 times. Both parts and went and got a copy of the game to relive it. That is easily your best video not only production and editing wise but received as well and would love your commentary on other games you're passionate about.
I appreciate your kind words! It's not in the same style as the PSAS documentary, but the video that should be coming next week is kicking off a new "series" focused around that sort of passion, inspiration, and excitement! It's probably the closest I've come to that kind of project in terms of the work and interest I'm putting in, and I should have 4-5 of them out by the end of April!
The PSAS doc is hard to replicate because of how far into that community and history that I was, I essentially chased a similar vibe all of 2019, and those videos did very well but weren't exactly what I wanted to make every video. This next attempt, I hope, will nail that ideal
I really want a physical version of this game in the UK. Doubt it’s coming so fingers crossed for limited run or similar company to step up and do it.
Got my limited run copy in the mail today
Super Dodgeball is one of my favorite games of all time, and easily my favorite on NES. I didn't know about the World Cup 2 and Basketball games in the same style though, and I recognize some of the same "special" moves. I also don't even own a Switch, but this collection is making me change my mind about that too.
If it helps at all, the collection has since gotten a port to PS4 - and I think at least a handful of the games were individually listed on the Xbox store if I'm not mistaken!
I was literally about to import the Hong Kong version of the Kunio Kun The World collection a week ago but held off on it - but now I found out that they *_TRANSLATED A SHITTON OF THE KUNIO GAMES?!_* Oh HELL yeah!!
I've gotta imagine it'll end up being cheaper too, you lucked out big-time! As far as I could tell, it's every Famicom Kunio-kun, unless the baseball one had an original Famicom version. It looked like that was just a SFC game though!
Almost all of those games On that collection were translated. And the ones that were not were sports ones you didnt need to worry about being translated.
@@TheGoldenBolt If you got the physical version you had it for more then a YEAR before this version came out. So unless you really want physical, you should get the Eshop game.
The dodgeball club scene made me do a double take. When you stopped there and I saw who was speaking. MISAKO. I was like… wait a minute! That’s the girlfriend! That’s one of the two main characters from River City girls! That’s just wild to me.
Really good review! I've never played any of these Retro River City games so this helped convince me to order the LRG Physical
Thanks for this fun, informative review.
I was just re-researching the Japanese collection that I’ve procrastinated buying for about 2 years and was totally keen on importing, until you blessed me with this news!!
Cheers.
Kunio kun game was made by aliens so much fun to play.
Excellent video as always. Initially I was very happy to see DD 2, 3 and Soccer (the one with the lightning effects) as they were one of my favourites back in the day. But 40$ for DD 2, 3, River City Ransom, Soccer, and(from your review) Basketball seems way overpriced. The fact that they have squeezed in duplicates among the paltry list is beyond me. You told that this was the greatest retro collection. But in my opinion, none has beaten Sega Genesis Classics Collection which has 3 times more games but costs 3 times less (in a sale)... Regardless of my love for DD 2 & 3 -- one of my most favourites of the NES gen -- I still can't pay for something which doesn't offer me half the value I pay for. I'll keep an eye out for sales and hopefully they sell it sensibly.
I do wanna note that I didn't say this was the _best_ retro collection, just that it likely has the best online functionality, and that it's the most fascinating (due to how deceptive the name is, and how weird Kunio-kun is)!
I respect your reason on why you won't buy it, but the "duplicates" are for those who don't want to play the Japanese versions of games they have played before, so they would obviously go for something they were used to. And those who want to check out the other newly translated Japanese versions, they can play those.
I'm a huge fan of the double dragon and kunio-kun series so I immediately bought it when I saw it in the nintendo e-shop and I wasn't disappointed
My main gripe is that given the steep price tag, they could've included AT LEAST some if not all of the Super Famicom and Game Boy Kunio games!
I just snatched this up since it was discounted down to TEN BUCKS on the eShop. Aside from the well known games in the bundle, the Kunio hockey game is worth the price alone. It’s amazing and addicting. Lol
Good to know, used to play these game with my father as a child. Wonder if he’d love to relive the moments
Double Dragon for Smash
I support that.
Whenever I hear "Double Ds" mentioned, this is what I have in mind
Fantastic as always brother
This makes me want to try these out. Knowing I'll die hundreds of times with my pure "skill"
The Smash Bros comment left me in stitches. A man can dream can’t he?
Man this brings back memories. Spent countless hours on Kunio Kun games! Did all the brawlers and the soccer and hockey! So good!
I remember Double D from the arcades of my childhood, looked way cooler back then lol
The arcade versions probably did look a _tiny_ bit better, at least. Either way they're miles ahead of Renegade!
Nes version doesn’t have Abobos “woooooah” move, and this is a good thing, because that move sucked, you just get thrown and hear “woooooah”, then he does it again “woooooah” and again “wooooooah” Edit: well, at around 4:30 you see an enemy in DD2 using the throw, but thankfully the nes couldn’t possibly have the “woooooah” sounding as annoying as the arcade was
I own river city (original and gameboy) and would buy it again. It's weird they hid it with double dragon. I almost missed this game. Just looking at reviews to find out what the other games are.
I almost think the game would fare better with the River City name rather than going back to Kunio-kun, a name only a small handful of people know. Especially with River City Girls' recent release, swapping back to the Japanese name is just odd to me.
it it half off on the eshop ATM $20 just got it
are there lot of ppl still playing online with kunio sports?
TMG 2020 tourneys gonna be lit
I will dunk all over you
Excellent! Any plans to review other classic game collections and re-releases?
I will never forget me 4 yo playing these games and being impressed by the graphics of DD3 and all thos things you could do... and laughing on the soccer game...ice hockey or basketball ass kicking
If anything, the american kunio versions are actually the duplicates, as the japanese versions were the original ones.
Nintendo World Cup 1 und 2, dear god, thank you
These run better than the Nintendo online emulator, 0 sprite flicker in these unlike the NES online.
It appears that an independent developer, Ronald Games, ripped off 100% of the Street Basket's gameplay into his own game "Street Basket Challenge". This game has HD graphics and will be sold on Steam, Google Play, and Amazon Apps.
While I'm excited for the remastered HD version, I can't believe Ronald Games hasn't been sued by Arc System Works for this IP infringement...
6:48 aw sick i've seen this one
As of 6/28/2020 it’s $19. I am grabbing it NOW!!!!!
That's a perfect price for it!
First thing I downloaded on my switch for $10 and I couldn't be happier. Even with the clone games.
The original creator of the Kunio-kun series passed away a few days ago... I'm pretty sad about that, I love all of the Kunio-kun games and this is a great collection. I still hope Kunio-kun gets into smash one day, at least he was a spirit, a mii costume would have been cool too though for the mii brawlers. At least Goemon got one, he's another one of my favorite retro characters, can't believe he got one.
The original creator is still alive.
But yeah, I too think it would be cool to see Kunio in Smash one day, along with Riki. At least they got in as spirits but that's better than nothing.
@@gr8gmr Mitsuhiro Yoshida passed away on 30 August. He was the president of Miracle Kidz, but he was remembered more for creating the Kunio-Kun games like River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball for the NES, among others.
@@gr8gmr my bad it was the director who died, for some reason I thought Mitsuhiro Yoshida was the creator
@@oneechanknowsbest615 Yeah, Yoshida directed certain games in the series like River City Ransom but Yoshihisa Kishimoto was the one who created both the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon series.
2:10 I'd disagree with the 'for some reason' sentiment, heck I want to get this game just for the Japanese version of the river city ransom games, as the more recent River City Girls series has those same characters, wereas it doesn't really make sense story-wise if you are going from the English version of River City Ransom.
I saw this i noticed the colors are washed out compared to the switch online ones but the wallpapers are fire
The double dragon here is not the NES ver?
I’ve been looking for that basketball and brawler game that was amazing when I was a kid. I’ve always liked them but I don’t know the name, since I played through it in Japanese, and even then, it was great.
i see there was a world cup follow up, guess never released in europe, really wish it was physical. only that game with online could already be a lot fun
Just got it on sale for $10. I'm pretty satisfied
My childhood in 1 game bundle. Tears 😭😭😭😭
Do the beat em up games in this bundle have infinite continues?
I refuse to subscribe. Mostly because I already did a long time ago. Just seems redundant. It's always amazing to me how you can take a subject(or two, in this case) that I have absolutely no interest in, and still make it interesting by your enthusiasm alone.
Thank you, that truly means a lot to hear! Hopefully what's coming in March will have the same effect, I'm hoping to tap even more into that exact enthusiasm!
Hey so that sale you mentioned, it's on now, until the 8th, in NA
When I first heard about this, I thought it was going to be a genuine Double Dragon collection. Oh well, back to emulating all the arcade and console ROMs.
I wish they make vol 2 and add snes , ds ,3ds ,arcade games .
Nintendo should remove all 4 Technōs games from their NES Switch Online library and replace them with ones like 魂斗羅Contra, Castlevania, Mighty Final Fight, Bubble Bobble, etc.
On sale for 10$ so I decided to pick it up!
On Sale For $10...might jump on it for sheer quality of the deal
nope, all i wanted was DD 3 THE SACRED STONES and lucky for me, they sell it standalone for $5 and i am a happy camper, good or bad game, that game was my childhood since it was my first DD game and i loved it to death , played it to death with my bro and 2 cousins, have fond memories of it and i sadly lost my copy on famicom a long time ago , and that broke my heart.
Thank you very much for this, GB
Great Video 😎👍
I decided to get it 😁
Glad I could help!
Is it worth $20? Looks like it’s worth $10.
Yeah, I am waiting for a sale on this one
@@jc30081983 Good call. I don’t get the hype of these games. I played most all of them and I don’t think the whole set is worth five bucks. One of those games that you get free play for 10 minutes realize it sucks and never play it again. Tired of wasting money on crappy games.
@@Dustinthewind03 Which game was crappy?
@@osakatales9228 I didn’t like the sport ones or the renegade one. The double dragon ones were OK but even one of those was stupid hard and not enjoyable IMO and I’ve been gaming for most of my life.
@@Dustinthewind03 If the games are hard, then calling them crappy is a stretch.
River City Ransom is not available seperately on the UK PlayStation Store, that's stupid, oh well, its only a one off, i usually wouldn't pay for a collection like this while i'm only interested in the 1 quarter of it but this is the only way to get River City Ransom on PS4 in the UK to go with River City Girls so i'll allow it just this once
Why is this not released in Europe ?
On the Xbox store, they posted this "bundle" all seperate pretty much and charging $5 a game. So you can just pick your favorite Double Dragon (3 haha) and get it for $5 and skip the rest if you want!
Actually it doesnt even offer all of the sports games on Xbox. It only offers the 3 Double Dragon games, River City Ransom, and the only sports game is Super Dodge Ball. All $5 each.
So it's the nes ports?
Didn't Double Dragon 1 already get ported to Switch? Now there's two versions.
Technically three or four! There's the NES Online one, possibly a Special Version of the NES Online one, the version in the bundle here, and a solo release that came out after the bundle.
@@TheGoldenBolt Don't forget the ACA version.
Better than all these combined check out Ultimate Double Dragon for Openbor it is easily the best beat em up to ever exist and the insane amount of moves possible alone (60 moves between Billy and Jimmy) will keep the game from ever getting stale. The creator recently got one of the original artists from Super Double Dragon to make sprites of Double Dragon Characters missing from that game. He did an amazing Abobo and just finished Linda for the next demo I cannot wait! It unfortunately ruined Super Double Dragon for me because its so good haha
It's not an actual game, it's a downloadable beat em up that is still being updated and stuff.
Does this come with the freebie Riki Dodgeball game like the Japanese version had?
Unless it's a hidden secret that I missed, it does not!
So you can buy this in a bundle I've only seen them so separately
A few weeks after the collection came out, they released a handful of the games as individual listings, I believe they're $5 each!
Is somebody wants to Play online ? Switch
???? all sports in kuniokun are brawl - I remember back in the day I had to guess all the japanese text to figure out how to play. I finished most of them anyway lol.
"These games were some of the defining brawlers of the NES era and beyond!"
No...not beyond. Double Dragon was never really relevant again after the NES era. Neon was good, but it's hardly defining.
If you define a genera then you define all games that came after it. The beat em up boom is mostly due to Double Dragon 1 and 2 existing.
7:23 Yes, please!
6:19 name?
Most of the games here are wtf is this and wtf am i meant to be doin?
Deffo worth owning for DD alone - should have had instructions imo.
I always hated the way the characters looked in the River City Ransom (Kunio-kun) games. Probably one of the reasons why I was never a fan as a kid. I just recently received the physical copy of this game from Playasia. And then, Limited Run Games announces that they're bringing it to the Switch as well (all in English). Just my luck. I guess I'll have to eventually sell my Playasia version.
This game does go on sale sometimes so keep an eye out for that. I saw it for $10 once
Now you can buy it on Xbox I like the way Xbox sells it you don’t need to pay $40 you just pay $4.99 for which games you like that’s it don’t forget Xbox one x is more powerful then PS4 pro who wants trophies when you can earn money from Microsoft for earning achievements does don’t pay us money for earning trophies not really I feel $4.99 is a fair price for an 8 bit game
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That sounds like a TH-cam issue, I went back to verify it's still working for me and it is. Perhaps try closing the browser and opening the video again afterwards?
@@TheGoldenBolt it is all your fault
Thankfully Double Dragon 4 wasn't part of this collection, but it's a shame they skipped on the SNES/Super Famicom Kunio-kun games, and Return of Double Dragon.
I wouldn't be surprised if a smaller collection sequel covers the SNES era, based on its exclusion here. That River City Ransom SNES prequel alone would probably sell it! Although I'd love to see the other system ports of the original River City Ransom too, some of those sounded like they had cool additions and tweaks.
@@TheGoldenBolt Arc System Works should make a Vol. 2 based with Neo Geo's Double Dragon, Rage of the Dragon, & Double Dragon V in the collection.
@@TheGoldenBolt The "River City ransom prequel" is apart of the Kunio Kun franchise and has nothing to do with RCR, most of the games you talked said were duplicates, are the original versions of the game.
All of these games have been 'FAN-Translated" over the years... Pass on this one, get your emu-game on!
Absolutely not worth it. At least not at those prices. We’re not talking $9.95…
If it had the DD arcade ports maybe so nope, don't like iit.
С удовольствием бы купил, но этот сборник не завезли в PSN России ))
No Bueno😔
Um you do know double dragon was was just a Americanized kunio game like renegade?
but why only realese 6 games of this collection separatley on xbox one.....what the actual fuck is this BIAS!!! ridiclouse i had to pay £5 for each game on xbox and they only have double dragon 1-3 renegade, river city ransom and dodge ball and one more cant even get the japanese ones were stuck with the shitty Americanized versions..................................................................................................
oh never mind its too expensive for the whole thing rather buy the ones i like XD
No Xbox?
Weird collection. And overpriced.
I think it'll settle into a comfortable $20-30 price point pretty quickly, and Dunk Heroes by itself would be enough that I'd recommend it wholeheartedly at $20!
Maybe. I adore classic arcade games, but these specific games aren't really my thing. I love the arcade versions of double dragon though.
No. DD is available on the Switch Online and the NES mini and nobody wants to play DD3 and sports games. Why not include Super Double Dragon/DD returns, DD Advance, DDIV, The SNES Kunio games that never made it over here? This is a pointless cashgrap that ArcSystems need to fill in for the start of the Second Quarter.
Why not add the other double dragon games . Makes no sense. Waste of 40 dollars.