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WayForward just released new gameplay for River City Girls 2, spotlighting on new character Marian. Well, "kinda" new, since she's THE same Marian in Double Dragon lore, former damsel in distress. The video below explains that she's been working out on her own while waiting to be rescued by her "close friends" Billy and Jimmy Lee while they're f...
You may not be familiar with the name Mitsuhiro Yoshida, but you should know the work he has done: the River City Ransom series of games, or the Nekketsu titles in Japan. Mitsuhiro Yoshida passed away on 30 August. He was the president of Miracle Kidz, but he was remembered more for creating the Kunio-Kun games like River City Ransom and Super D...
Update: River City Girls 2's release date is added. WayForward has dished out more info about its upcoming 2D beat-em-up River City Girls 2. First up, there's a bit more gameplay of the main characters Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, Riki, Marian (Double Dragon ex-damsel-now-badass), and Provie. You also get to know the villains of this entry: the crim...
The pretty sweet-looking spin-off to the River City series of games will be out in English in a few months. Publisher Arc System Works and developer APlus Games will release River City Saga: Three Kingdoms for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC on 21 July for US$29.99. River City Saga: Three Kingdoms will have our beat-em-up heroes Kunio and Riki f...
The upcoming sequel to River City Girls is coming out in the middle of 2022. During the Nintendo Switch Indie showcase, developer WayForward announced that River City Girls 2 will be out in Summer 2022. The new title will feature new characters including Marian from the Double Dragon series and Provie from River City Underground, online co-op pl...
Publisher Arc System Works and developer WayForward are delaying its upcoming port of Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-tachi no Banka -or River City Girls Zero- to next year. Originally scheduled for late 2021, both companies said they will release the game in early 2022 so that they have more time to "achieve the most accurate port and best experienc...
The Kunio-kun series lives on, not just in a River City Girls sequel but in 2D 16-bit graphic pixel format on a brand new game. River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, the next Kunio-kun game from Arc System Works featuring 2D beat-em-up action and some RPG elements, will be out on 16th December for Nintendo Switch in Japan. No Western release date has...
Arc System Works just showed off new footage of its upcoming Kunio-kun game, which is the Japanese series that led to the River City Ransom titles -the most recent title being River City Girls. The new game is called Kunio-kun's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but you can just call it River City Saga: Three Kingdoms. It's a co-op beat-em-up RPG t...
Publisher Arc System Works and developer APlus Games just announced a new Kunio-kun game as its 35th anniversary title for the franchise. It's just a teaser trailer featuring CGI flags, so not much gameplay really. We do know that it's called Kunio-kun no Sangokushi dayo: Zeiin Shuugou!, which is roughly translated as "Kunio-kun Three Kingdoms! ...
One of E3 2021/June Summer of Gaming livestream surprises is the announcement of a River City Girls sequel. We adored that 2D beat-em-up, though we wished there was online play and some alleviation from its repetitious nature. The game's sequel will be expanded, reassuring many beat-em-up and Kunio-kun/Double Dragon fans. According to a Silicone...
By Alleef Ashaari|June 15, 2021|0 Comment
During the Limited Run Games live stream at E3 2021, Arc System Works and WayForward announced River City Girls 2 for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam). Limited Run Games will produce a physical edition of the game. The next game in the Kunio-kun series slated to launch sometime in 2022. The synopsis of the game reads...
Have a hankering for the good old days when brawlers and side-scrolling beat-em-ups had simple-yet-fun non-linear level layouts and a simple RPG progression system? Wished that Technos came back from the dead and made a nicer-looking River City game? Well, we can't have the latter. But that's OK because developer WayForward is doing a great job at...
A while ago, we reported that WayForward and Arc System Works will be making the next game in the River City/Kunio-Kun beat-em-up/dodgeball franchise. Here's a first look at the game, dubbed River City Girls, and it's on-par with the developer's past works and titillating style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MRASC-Ndw The game flips the scrip...
If you've played a lot of beat-em-ups back in the day, anything with the word "River City" in the front means you're playing a classic left-to-right side-scrolling pugilistic affair. You'll also know that it's the Western version of the Kunio-kun games, now under the publishing umbrella of Arc System Works alongside Double Dragon. According to a r...
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