River City Girls 2

[list] [*]Combat flows better than the first game, but the boss fights are terrible across the board. ...Because seriously whoever designed the Tsuiko boss fight needs a stern talking-to. [*]Sprites/animations/backgrounds are great, and the soundtrack is pretty damn good, but the writing/story leaves a lot to be desired, especially in comparison to the first game. [*]Lots of fun references to Technōs to be found throughout, so if you're a fan of the company you'll get a kick out of some of this stuff. [*]Also hope you like content creators doing terrible VO work, because boy howdy Is this the game for you! [/list] Overall if you enjoyed the first game you'll like this one too. Probably. I dunno. PS: Make Hasebe and Mami playable next time. Please.

Very "samey" sequel: enemies, locations, moves, music ... A lot of things are reused. Bosses are new but are very unfun with obnoxious mechanics. Dialogues and humor are not really working either. I m feeling disappointed with this sequel, though it's still nice to play as Marian and collect all the strikers. I d only recommand for hardcore fans of the franchise.

A great game, and a worthy follow up to the 2019 original. The combat feels sharper than before, especially given that every charatcer can now air pop an enemy and automatically launch themselves up with them to do an air combo. One of my favorite things to do was to play Marian, air pop an enemy, combo, then crash down to the earth with them for AOE splash damage using her "peoples elbow" move. Sooo satisfying. The combat it super fun for every character. This basically takes all the banter, charm, and fighting mechanics from the first game and ramps things up, which duh, it's a sequel. It is supposed to do exactly that. Just saying though, it does accomplish what any good sequel was meant to do. It is worth mentioning that a good portion of this game is a revisit into old territory from the game that came before it, but brought into the future. There are also two new characters, but the specific addition of Marian is the highlight here (sorry Provie fans but; Marian > Provie). Not only is her backstory humorously awesome, but she's quite possibly the best technical fighter in the entire game (tied with Riki in most fan communities). As far as her backstory goes, her identity is…

Simply a fantastic iteration of the classic River City formula; it's clear that WayForward put a ton of love into this game, and it's even better than the first.

Packed full of references to the 90's and early 00's era of video games.

To the devs team; pls opt this game into GFN. Thx.