River City Girls

River City Girls
River City Ransom but Girls
Protagonist(s): Kyōko Misako Genre(s): Beat'em up Action-adventure Platform(s): PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One iOS Android Release Date: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch September 5, 2019 PlayStation 5 January 20, 2022 Mobile November 7, 2023 Developer(s): Wayforward Publisher(s): Wayforward (WW) Arc System Works (Asia) Series: Kunio-kun

River City Girls is a 2019 beat 'em up video game developed by WayForward and published by Arc System Works. A spin-off in the Kunio-kun franchise, the game stars Misako and Kyoko (originally appearing in Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club: Soccer and Kunio-tachi no Banka respectively) who fight their way through enemies and obstacles to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series protagonists Kunio and Riki. The game was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in September 2019, and for Amazon Luna in October 2020. A PlayStation 5 version was released on January 18, 2022.

Why It Rocks

1. This is a spin-offs, where your play as a girl. And yes, it set in the Kunio-kun universe, despite it ignoring the continuity.
2. Great looking graphics that reminiscing to the 16-bit counterpart with good animation.
   • The FMV is also good and the style is reminiscing to the anime.
3. Decent story, despite being bland.
4. Fun and challenging gameplay, even for 2-player local.
5. Tight controls as usual of beat'em up games.
6. Challenging boss fight design, each bosses has a pattern to dodged, not too easy or too hard.
7. You can unlock the moves by buying this on Dojo, each moves have different combination attack to do so.
8. You can recruit the enemies to making things easier whenever the enemies is attack you.
9. You can buy uniform, etc. To better upgrades, like better damage, better skill, or better defense.
10. There's a tons of easter egg, like example in mobile version, there's the Hime shop, and you will be meeting with Crunchyroll characters, Hime-chan.
11. There's a quest to do so, each quest certain mission within the story.
12. Great voice actor, especially for Japanese dubs.
13. You can unlock the Kunio character after you complete the game once, making more replay value.

Bad Qualities

1. As usual for Beat 'em up game, the game can be repetitive.
2. Some sections are too hard to get through.
3. Sometimes, the story is kinda bland.
4. Getting the money to buy something is quite grinding and tiresome. And worse, if you get game over, you lost all of your money.
5. Some bosses can be hard and very tough to complete.
6. The game has a backtracking, so you need completed each of one to level up, which can be tedious.
7. The mobile version is considered the weakest port due to amount of frame-rate drops and technical issues even for higher phone.
   • Worse is the mobile version is required the Crunchyroll subscription. Yes, there's a new Crunchyroll Game Vault and this subscription is killing the underrated games that had been existing on App Store and Google Play for a long time, such as Behind the Frame and Crypt of the Necrodancer that will be delisting from existence. Keep in mind, this could be a problem about piracy and people just ignore this service with piracy websites as a replacement.

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