There’s one other River City Ransom sequel within the works, and this time it’s by Shantae and Double Dragon Neon studio WayForward. River City Girls is a one or two participant (native) brawler that flips the script a bit on the collection. This time, delinquent high-school lasses Kyoko and Misako are beating seven shades out of all the city to rescue their lads, who’ve been captured by the largest, meanest gang of all; the cops. Below, a lyrical teaser trailer giving us a quick peek at some superbly animated pixelated pugilism.
If you’ve by no means performed a River City game earlier than, they’re about 80% brawler, 20% RPG, and barely non-linear. There’s an experience-based levelling system, and outlets that promote a wide range of everlasting stat boosts, new strikes and consumables, purchased with the cash you punch out of your foes. WayForward say that River City Girls is not any totally different. Interestingly, the game is an official a part of the Kunio-kun collection (the Japanese identify for the games), with the lead duo making an attempt to rescue Kunio and Riki, the unique two teen tearaways from the 1989 unique.
The trailer has me hopeful – the animation appears nice, hits look to have some actual influence and power, and the collection’ sense of humour seems intact. My solely fear is that WayForward might need suffered some brain-drain since their final brawler, the wildly underrated and genuinely humorous Double Dragon Neon. A very good chunk of the studio’s expertise broke off to kind Yacht Club and develop Shovel Knight, so I hope they’ve nonetheless received sufficient people aboard to know what makes a very good brawler. Despite easy appearances, it is a very onerous style to get proper.
River City Girls launches on September fifth, and can value $30, although no retailer pages are up but. The undertaking is being overseen by Japanese rights-holders Arc System Works. As an apart, Conatus Creative’s River City Ransom: Underground (a game a lot improved by patches) is cheap in the Steam summer sale, right down to £3.74/€4.99/$4.99.
