DONG DONG NEVER DIE is a bizarre and underrated GEM of a game. It was developed by a few guys known as Wang Dong (王东) and Jiangxi Dinosaur (江西恐龙) back in the late 2000s. Honestly, this game is a true work of art due to its home-made "so bad it's good" style.

The characters in DONG DONG NEVER DIE are a fever dream, there's a fat construction worker guy with a hammer who's also called "Kenshiro" despite showing no semblance to Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken. A stickman thing, and... Mario. Mario plays just like Akuma for whatever reason. It's more than obvious that there was no script or planning involved in this, it's just a bunch of people putting whatever they wanted into this game just for the sake of it. But, somehow... it works.

The art style is similar to Mortal Kombat with its digitized sprites, the gameplay is sorta like King of Fighters mixed with Street Fighter Alpha 2. It's fast-paced, and the moves are cheap. Vinesauce Joel played it once back in 2014, so that stream might've exposed the game to Western audiences.

The game was developed for Chinese players in mind; unfortunately, there has never been an English translation patch in more than 13 years. So, I myself decided to translate the plot and text to English. As for voice acting? At first, I considered redubbing it from scratch, but I don't want to ruin this cult classic with 4Kids-esque redubbing.

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