
Join Kunio, Riki, Misako, and Kyoko for bone-crunching, 16-bit, co-op beat-'em-up action - newly translated and released outside of Japan after 28 years! The original 1994 graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay are augmented with new motion-comic cutscenes, a new animated intro, and new music!
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SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 302reviews | 64% | — | $62.7K |
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A very old beat em up that was fun to play with a friend. The enjoyment was enhanced by having played River City Girls 1 and 2 and loving the characters in those games. It made enjoying the little things in this game much better.
This game is poooooooop-e. The worst of all the River City/Kunio Kun games that I’ve personally played. The hit stun in this is awful and enemies will just plow through everything you throw at them which is super frustrating. I’m sure there’s a proper way to play this but I just can’t figure it out and don’t feel all that compelled to learn after having completed the game. The motorcycle levels are awesome though and a ton of fun. Every action game should have a motorcycle scene, it’s mandatory. The story is a big positive in this game. Very intense and suspenseful with high stakes. Has a pretty epic ending and final boss too. It’s a shame it was wasted on a mess of a game like this one. I love the lighter hearted tone of the WayForward games but I’d like to see one of the newer ones tackle a plot like this one or just completely remake this one with the River City Girls 2 gameplay. Megan McDuffee returns to do some of the music and she never misses as always. Most of the soundtrack is the original SFC tracks and they’re equally good. Very tense and ominous at some parts which compliments the tone of game. Overall I don’t recommend this unless you can get it for pennies. Very poopy game and I really don’t understand why. It’s not a matter of it aging poorly either, the original River City Ransom was on NES and plays WAAAAAAAAAY better than this. I don’t know if Technōs was just experimenting with something new or what but it is booty cheeks. I’ve played both the Steam and Switch ports, both are fine.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese*, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
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Cool vibes, bad game. River City Girls Zero is a side-scrolling beat em up with none of the rpg elements from River City Ransom. The gameplay is basically kill 3 waves of enemies then move on to the next area, with the occasional motorcycle level which are their own kind of bad. Your time would be better spent playing any other river city game if you like vibes.
Después de varias décadas, llegó una versión global del juego exclusivo para Super Famicom: Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka. Fue pésimamente renombrado, por motivos comerciales, como River City Girls Zero, a pesar de que las chicas solo son personajes secundarios y jugables recién a partir de cierto punto de la aventura. La trama es simple: acusan a Kunio de haber provocado un accidente voluntariamente y es enviado a prisión junto con Riki. Ahí comienzan sus peripecias, que los llevarán por diferentes escenarios con sus respectivas peleas de jefes. La particularidad de este juego es el poder cambiar de personaje en todo momento y de manera casi instantánea, teniendo así dos barras de vida; pero cuidado, porque si uno muere, es Game Over. El juego no innova mucho dados los años que tiene; los personajes no están tan bien animados como se esperaría, pero no deja de ser una rareza que llega a Steam. Lo mejor es el guardado en cualquier momento, a diferencia del juego original que se manejaba con passwords. Lo negativo es que, una vez concluida la aventura, no hay nada más que hacer: es para terminarlo y no jugarlo más. Pero bueno, dada la época, era algo normal en esos días. De a dos se hace algo más divertido. Vale más por su rareza de antiguo exclusivo japonés que por lo que es el juego en sí. Como extra, trae tristemente las impresiones de la caja y el manual original japonés, nada más. En fin, un port flojísimo; aunque se agradece el idioma español, su falta de extras y su naturaleza lo condenan a ser un juego de nicho.
Ну что могу сказать... Порт корявый, джойстик во время игры отъебнул, пришлось перезапускать. Следующие запуски игры без начальной заставки, тупо розовый экран и ОТСУТСТВУЮ ЗВУКИ совсем, это то ради чего и берётся эта игра, ради кайфовой ностальгичной музыкой - ибо боёвка оставляет желать лучшего. Даже на денди River City Ransome играется лучше в этом плане. Отзыв поставил положительный, только потому что сама игра хорошая. Давайте все привыкнем, что Arc System work - это конвейер для выжимки денег, обнову на проклятый лаунчер мы не получим
为啥我的游戏速度是0.5倍速?声音和画面都很卡,不知道啥原因,有懂的没,麻烦说一下~~~
It's a good game, yes it's clunky and stuff but if you just want to play a beat' em up and all I can say it's a good experience, can be frustrating though.
Too hard to beat. Retro games should be a fun way to experience to remember a game you never got to finish. This is not a good retro game. No way l would recommend this game. It is way to hard to beat a boss and not fun. Buy a retro game that has modern options to beat the game.
當初超任上的名作之一,舊版熱血系列的最終一舞。 此次的移植版除了有了新的開頭影片外,最重要的是完整的內建中文,以前看不懂的對話現在都一清二楚了,雖然劇情不是這系列的強項,不過老遊戲能夠在語系上翻新還是值得鼓勵。(所以說那個FC合輯咧Arc)
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