The writing for some of the interactions isn’t great, but just about every actor here does their absolute best selling the lines. This also helps with the pacing, keeping you moving forward, really only stopping for cutscenes when you run into another character. ![]() It’s a nice way to keep the girls talking to one another without it feeling weird that the other is suddenly there or by stopping the action for a cutscene. If you’re playing by yourself, as I did through most of it, Misako and Kyoko will talk to each other through their portraits on their status bars on the top screen. Misako and Kyoko will have conversations with characters they meet as well as with each other. I felt kind of bad destroying their car, but Kyoko seemed to delight in it. ![]() Sometimes that’s triggering a quick conversation with another character, but most of the time it’s knocking the crap out of everyone who appears until the literal lock and chains on the screen are broken. There’s really nothing stopping you from going backward if you need to, but going forward, you’re blocked off until certain conditions are met. Once you get through an area, you can always go back to it if you want to crack some skulls to gain more money or experience points. The game is sectioned off into a fair amount of areas in each level. Kyoko feels a bit more fluid and seems to be having more fun with the whole thing, but again, this all seems superficial, so just pick who you like and go to town. I didn’t really notice any sort actual difference in the damage they dealt, but Misako’s attacks definitely look like they hit harder and are more brutal. You can play as either Misako or Kyoko, who play similarly, but there’s a feeling that Misako is a bit more of the bruiser and Kyoko is a bit more agile. It’s a cute, if a bit of a throwaway, subversion in the guys-going-off-to-save-their-girlfriends shtick. You play Misako and Kyoko, the girlfriends of Kunio and Rikki (the main protagonist of the series and his best friend, respectively), as they set off to save them after Kunio and Rikki are kidnapped. ![]() River City Girls takes the side-scrolling brawler-RPG genre of the series and gives it a modern touch. My point is that the series has had a long and complicated history (much like this paragraph) involving as many spin-off games as games in the side-scrolling brawler-RPG genre that it’s best known for. ![]() Others might have jumped in early with the original River City Ransom on the NES or the remake for the Game Boy Advance (which was where I finally put the pieces together that this and Super Dodgeball are the same series). Although technically not a Kunio-kun game, it plays very similarly to Super Dodgeball (an arcade game released in 1987 which is an official Kunio-kun game) and was also made by the company that inherited the brand, so its heritage is a little grey there. My entry point was Super Dodgeball Advance on the Game Boy Advance. The River City (otherwise known as Kunio-kun) franchise is one that’s been around for over 30 years and has never really had that breakout hit that gets it to stick in the heads of the masses. Platforms: Playstation 4, Switch, Windows, Xbox One (reviewed)
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