![]() ![]() It’s worth it to complete them because not only do quests open up new sections of the map, but also give you lots of bonus experience and items, not to mention the bulk of the game’s numerous achievements/trophies. They’re much more varied and fun in River City Girls 2, too, and go for more than the mere fetch quests that they were back in the first game. ![]() You’ll stomp around familiar locations from the first game and get to discover new ones as well, such as the graveyard, amusement park, and the bone market, all of them packed with side missions to take part in. You get to explore River City moving from screen to screen, and its map is quite extensive, offering lots of different paths and locations to beat the crap out of bad guys in. River City Girls 2 at the outset plays exactly like the original. The adventure begins in Kyoko’s room, but it’s not what you think, sicko! They each have their own unique set of skills and levels to grind for, offering plenty of reasons to switch around and find one that suits your play style. Like Marian, Billy and Jimmy’s squeeze from Double Dragon, who got fed up with waiting to be rescued and got jacked up, becoming a really powerful fighter in her own right, as well as Provie, who was already featured in a previous River City game, Underground. Along with their boyfriends Riki and Kunio, stars of River City Ransom, they’re joined by some new friends they’ll meet along the way. The girls get kicked out of school and end up wasting away at home playing videogames for two months before they decide on punching some sense into the bad guys and save the city when they go out to buy a new game that was just released.Īnd this time, they won’t have to do it alone. The real threat, the head of the family that was in prison the whole time, upon knowing of his daughter’s defeat, breaks out and starts causing mayhem all around town. River City Girls 2 is bigger, and it manages to be even better than the first one by having more of what made the original so good and expanding upon it in fun ways.Īfter the defeat of the evil crime syndicate boss at the end of the original River City Girls, things seemed to go back to normal in River City, but it was just the beginning of a much larger adventure for Kyoko and Misako. ![]() Not only did it play amazingly well, it also paid homage to the history of the genre, including cameos from characters from not just the River City games, but also Double Dragon and others. When WayForward in conjunction with Arc System Works released River City Girls back in 2019, I was floored with just how good it turned out. ![]()
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