River City Ransom/ Kunio Kun

River City Melee Mach!! launches October 10 in Japan

loooool love the classic NES sprites on top of the 3d backgdrops.

River City Girls Goes Into Action With Kyoko And Misako In New Japanese Version Trailer

So I've never played RCR but I've heard this is supposed to be like a sandbox brawler with RPG elements. Like you get to run around town ala Yakuza on top of fighting hordes of dudes.

Yep! The franchise as a whole is a large and sprawling series about Japanese delinquents, most of which were never translated. River City Ransom specifically was the Americanization of one of the NES games.

Also, while people wait for River City Girls, can I recommend The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa? It's a Kunio-inspired indie about one delinquent's last year of high school. So you could hit the books and be a straight A student by day and a wandering turf-warrior by night. Or you could cut class, beat up kids for their lunch money and aggro every gang in the city against you.

What makes it so good is all of the secret things that you can find to do. Which is all of them, because the game hides so much info from you. You can get a cat, get two (or three?) part time jobs, find a personal trainer, join a club, train at the gym, find a girlfriend.... and that's just the stuff that I know how to trigger, there's other stuff too.

I watched that trailer, and one of the regular enemies looks like an Expy of King or Tiger Mask.

Also repeating the question here since it wasn't answered last time, who're Hibari, Noize, Kaori, Mihoko, and Yoko? Are they new characters?

They're all new yes

Huh, I see. I really like them.

Another question I want to re-ask that never got answered, would River City: Rival Showdown be a good game for me to get to get into the series before River City Girls releases?

I've read it's really good for a Kunio-Kun game. Better than average, so maybe? From what I've seen of RCR Girls it's kind of more of the same fundamentally so you might be setting yourself up for a bit of disappointment if you start with Showdown.

Eh, I just want something to get my feet wet, and I have a 3DS so...

So go for it. RCR/KK is fun, but repetitive. If that's your jam, it should be fine.

"fun, but repetitive" hm? I can work with that.

BTW, I've been wondering if maybe we should revamp the main page for the franchise? Like, maybe give more of the games their own pages (I know a couple of them already do), add whichever material is missing, and maybe even give a little more Wiki Magic Love to the Characters sub-page to add in any characters that are missing?

It has to be a notable game, there's too many entries in the franchise to scatter a bunch of barely started game pages.

River City Girls ‘Kyoko’ trailer

It's nice the series will be getting much needed exposure outside of Japan. And she's definitely a thirsty one.

I can't wait 'til this game's soundtrack releases. This song sounds killer!

I think that's Kira Buckland voicing Kyoko.

Did we ever find out when the physical version is being released?

I'm almost certain it's actually Jill Harris as Kyoko. But hopefully they'll have proper credits when the game comes out.

All we know so far is that it'll be done by Limited Run Games.

And speak of the devil, here's info on the Physical Release! You can also pre-order the game now!

EDIT: Oh, and every standard copy of the game will have a one-disc soundtrack sampler as well.

Edited by WolfThunder on Aug 15th 2019 at 4:03:49 AM

I'm a bit confused on the release date of the physical version. The thread says a month long preorder is opening on August 30th but wouldn't that mean it comes out at the end of September? But again, the thread doesn't list an actual release date either way.

GoNintendo got the chance to interview WayForward's Adam Tierney about "River City Girls".

There's also this Tweet thread from Kay about the thought process that went behind the attacks.

They certainly know how to design characters.

Misako sounds like she fights in the same way Agent Carter or Miss Tatsu do.

Seems like the crew really had a good time making the game! Also any game with a half dozen vocal tracks is gonna be good.

I'm so looking forward to this. I do so love beat'em'ups, and the exploration and RPG elements almost unique to RCR makes it a really fun experience.