YMMV page for River City Girls
- Catharsis Factor: Do you remember back in Double Dragon and River City Ransom: Underground where you get accosted by a helicopter unloading mooks on you but can't damage it at all, and will eventually depart after depleting enough of their passengers? Well here, you can personally destroy it during the fight outside the Sanwakai Tower's entrance. It survives the beating, but at least you get the satisfaction of fighting it.
- Crosses the Line Twice: To Lost Judgment levels. One of the playable cast is Marian of Double Dragon fame, of the 6 playable characters, she is the crew's Token Adult. Half of the opponents you fight are teenagers while the other half are adults, and you can have Marian deliver a huge No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the former with reckless abandon.
- Game-Breaker: Once you're able to recruit her, Noize's assist is ridiculously useful. Not only does it completely heal you and anyone else near you, it also has a relatively short cooldown time. You can essentially use her whenever you clear a room and cheese the rest of the game, all for a low cost of $25.
- Padding: The typical fetch quests and busy work aside, several times the game introduces small twists that seem to serve no purpose but to pad out its play time. After learning that River City High is being supplied with food that will brainwash its students into serving the yakuza, you must trek entirely on foot to the other side of the map because the buses are temporarily disabled. Then, right before the final level, you're given a timed mission to revisit every district in the game to rescue your "friends", which the game repeatedly lampshades are largely irrelevant NPCs the heroines either don't care about or, in one case, have quite literally never met before.
- Spiritual Successor: Thematically speaking, this is one to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, as both games tackle the Cycle of Revenge centered around a takeover of the morally ambiguous protagonists' home city by a criminal syndicate and are also goofier than their initial entries, to boot.
- Unexpected Character:
- This game includes Marian and Provie as new playable characters. Marian wasn't much of a stretch, seeing how popular she was with fans in the previous gamenote , but Provie comes from a game that is only canon to River City Ransom, the Western localization of Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, with very little in the way of references to its Kunio-Kun origins. Of course, it makes sense in hindsight as one of the directors of Girls, Bannon Rudis, was also the main director of Underground. It also made it less surprising when the other originals of the latter game appeared, as Chris has a minor supporting role, Paul and Wes are hireable assist characters, and Glen and Mike are shopkeepers.
- While David Liu was responsible for helming River City Girls Zero's new animated intro, no one expected his original character Space Maria to show up as a cameo behind an office desk.
- Jeff "Crash" Cooney showing up as his own separate character from Kunio and running a mini-game is a big surprise, as there was no indication whatsoever that characters from other Western Kunio-Kun localizations besides Underground would show up, aside from a reference in the first River City Girls. This also applies to Mr. K (from Renegade), who is even more obscure and gives out a side-quest.
- While not as surprising as the other River City examples above, Roxy actually shows up as a shopkeeper and exists alongside Hasebe.
- Sonny, the third Lee brother from Double Dragon 3 who eventually came back in Double Dragon IV, gets a minor role. Even the characters in-game have a hard time remembering him.
- Out of all the Technos-verse characters to show up, Tengu, who owns a ramen shop in-game, is the most obscure of all, owing to the fact that his source game was arcade-only and not widely known even among fans.
- In regards to WayForward characters, Jake, the protagonist of LIT (2009), is a shopkeeper in the Technos atrium. Given that his source game was both obscure and delisted from a digital storefront a few years prior, it's a surprising inclusion.
