This is also true of the music: Megan McDuffee’s killer soundtrack bangs with toe-tapping, genre-bashing instrumentals. Character models and backgrounds have a chunky pixel style that, mixed with the silky smooth animations, capture a style and expressiveness that deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with beautiful retro contemporaries like Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge.
Also, many screens feature lots of obstacles and architecture that can become challenges for platforming or add a bit more tactical thinking to the fights you pick, but I found that I was just as often slipping off of edges or having my view of the action blocked by something in the foreground.īut again, the scenery deserves attention. That said, the size of the city means that even with the presence of a fast-travel system I had to spend an awful lot of time backtracking through parts of the city to check boxes to progress the main quest. My first time kicking ass through locations like the vibrant fish markets of Ocean Heights or the sleek offices of the Technos complex were a treat because they’re so well drawn and colored.
The map of River City is huge in River City Girls 2, much bigger than the previous game’s rendition. So if you do choose to grind, there will be plenty of places to spend all that hard-earned money. Food items, though one-time use consumables, can be stored for when you need them and grant characters a permanent stat buff the first time they eat them. Want to hit just the male (or female) enemies harder for some reason, there's one for that too. Want to move faster? There’s an accessory for that. Items that gave me a health shield when I was low or added elemental properties to my heavy attacks were my personal go-tos, but there are also options that alter almost every way you interact with River City Girls 2. These were much-appreciated meanderings that helped break up the punch-drunk monotony.Įquipping gear bought at stores sprinkled throughout the seven regions of the city helps even the odds in combat. The stranger the distraction, the more I missed it when it was gone. Shortly after embarking on the quest to save the city, I found myself occasionally doing odd jobs like catching ghosts, robbing a Yakuza-owned bank, and training the locals in the lost art of dodgeball. I wasn’t simply street fighting throughout the entire eight-hour adventure, though.
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