Just remember, licence never replace eye, ear, brain.
The Karate Kid movie series always seemed like a bit of a hard sell to this writer. Not to detract from the inarguable skill of said Kid, but there are plenty of films out there starring at least one Karate Adult. It stands to reason that the Karate Adult would simply be better at Karate than the Karate Kid, and therefore more worthy of attention. Which brings us to the hit YouTube Red/Netflix/KickAssTorrents series Cobra Kai, upon which this brawler is apparently based. We’ve heard it’s quite good, but can the tie-in game hope to achieve such lofty heights? The lofty heights of “quite good”?
Now, there’s no doubt that Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues is a game with some problems, but to our genuine surprise, they don’t really get in the way of what ends up being a really fun, knockabout punch-‘em-up which offers a pretty strong pugilism experience while not quite scratching the itch that the true greats manage effortlessly (Streets of Rage 4 springs to mind). Here, you initially pick between the titular Cobra Kai or the (frankly, far less cool) Miyagi-do Dojos, then get to work beating up every single living human being in your path.
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