Viewtiful Joe - Double Trouble is amazing!
If you've played the other Viewtiful Joe games you'll be instantly familiar with most of the moves except the new touch screen ones which do make up a considerable part of the game play. The game is a lot easier than the original console game. I've not felt challenged during playing it yet. The same power up system is in place and there are plenty of save slots to save your game in.
The graphics and the style is the same as the other Viewtiful Joe games and the storyline is just as cheesy (I won't ruin it for you here however). The gameplay is also similar to the console version when fighting however moving across the level can at times require some rather original use of touch screen control and this is what makes the game stand out.
New Moves
The first one I'll discuss is scratch attack. Press R and then rub your finger/stylus on the touch screen. An example of using this move is to loosen a rock from a ledge. You can also split the screen by draggin your finger right/left across the touchscreen the whole top part of the level moves which allows you to jump into an area you wouldn't be able to get into otherwise or to move an object to another part of the screen. For example, there is a whirlpool you cannot get passed so you want to plug it. After loosening the aforementioned boulder using scratch you can split the screen and move the boulder over the whole before dropping it into the whirlpool to stop it spinning so you can proceed. Final new move is the ability to slide the top screen to the bottom screen (effectively Zooming in) which allows you to then touch the enemies in close proximity to Joe to inflict a lot of damage. This is also useful for getting objects in the background of a level.
Overall I'm completely happy with this installment of Viewtiful Joe. It's not quite as difficult a the original but it's still hard and still great.