5/3/2023 0 Comments City girl life quests![]() The River City Girls narrative is spirited and entertaining, with some frequently laugh-out-loud funny dialogue. ![]() The girls also meet some brilliantly conceived enemies and boss characters – including a few surprise cameos – while on their dangerous mission to track down their missing beaus. That’s life in River City.Īs they journey across town, kicking ass and forgetting names, Kyoko and Misako bump into a host of familiar faces, recognisable characters which will make Kunio-kun fans squeal with delight, without excluding newcomers from the fun. Without a second’s notice, the girls realise the best course of action is to break out of school, take to the streets, and beat the living shit out of everybody they come across in the name of love. River City Girls is the story of rebellious besties Misako and Kyoko who, whilst slumbering in detention, receive a text message announcing the disappearance of their respective boyfriends Kunio and Riki (the heroes of multiple River City games). River City Girls (PS4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) But, some 33 years since Kunio-kun’s debut, is there still a place for the humble brawler in 2019? Straighten your school tie and knuckle up, we’re gonna find out. Indeed, this week sees the release of brand new entry River City Girls, developed by Shantae helmers WayForward Games. Since the 1986 release of Nekketsu KÅha Kunio-kun (or Renegade), this long-running franchise has kept the spirit of the street brawler alive for generations. ![]() And in Japan, no franchise did this with as much pride as Kunio-kun, better known in the west via the River City series. There were, however, a few brands that kept flying the flag for the genre. Eventually the industry moved on and, as the arcade gave way to Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, and other one-on-one fighters, the simplicity of the brawler fell by the wayside. Final Fight, Double Dragon, Vendetta, and X-Men were all games built on repetitive action, but they kept the coins rolling in thanks to their great visuals/music and addictive co-op gameplay. Also popular, as far as video games were concerned, was the scrolling beat-’em-up genre, or “brawler”, as you kids call it today.īy the time the ’90s dawned, the arcades were full of titles that featured the simple construct of patrolling the streets, mashing evil faces and eating chicken out of oil drums. A lot of things blew up big in the late ’80s: Bermuda shorts, TMNT, those shirts that changed colour when you got hot, displaying your sweat stains to the world.
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