River City Girls Zero
WayForward · 2022 · Beat 'em up, Motorbike, Arcade, Retro, 2D
PC
Mixed69% · 188 📉 Recent reviews down 54%
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About River City Girls Zero
Join Kunio, Riki, Misako, and Kyoko for bone-crunching, 16-bit, co-op beat-'em-up action - translated and released outside of Japan for the first time! Experience the origin of the River City Girls story as the hot-blooded heroes attempt to clear their names of a heinous crime by uppercutting, spin-kicking, stomping, and slamming every thug and two-bit criminal that gets in their way! Rock the jailhouse, clean up the carnival, and raise hell on the highway! The original 1994 graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay are augmented with new opening and closing motion-comic cutscenes, a new animated intro, and additional music by Megan McDuffee and DEMONDICE. Discover River City's past with this lost classic!
Key Features:
• The classic 16-bit beat-’em-up, Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka, officially translated and released in the West after 28 years!
• Switch between four playable characters, each with unique special moves!
• Intriguing story that inspired River City Girls 1 & 2!
• Bone-busting combat: Unleash an arsenal of punches, kicks, jump attacks, grabs, and more!
• 1p or 2p local co-op gameplay!
• A variety of environments: high school, the docks, an amusement park, a casino, and more!
• Battle from a motorcycle in "Mode 7” style vehicle stages!
• Image gallery featuring vintage box art, manual images, and additional content!
• New motion-comic cutscenes, new animated intro, and new music by River City Girls composer Megan McDuffee and DEMONDICE!
Key Features:
• The classic 16-bit beat-’em-up, Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka, officially translated and released in the West after 28 years!
• Switch between four playable characters, each with unique special moves!
• Intriguing story that inspired River City Girls 1 & 2!
• Bone-busting combat: Unleash an arsenal of punches, kicks, jump attacks, grabs, and more!
• 1p or 2p local co-op gameplay!
• A variety of environments: high school, the docks, an amusement park, a casino, and more!
• Battle from a motorcycle in "Mode 7” style vehicle stages!
• Image gallery featuring vintage box art, manual images, and additional content!
• New motion-comic cutscenes, new animated intro, and new music by River City Girls composer Megan McDuffee and DEMONDICE!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a GBA remake that was previously unreleased. It works for nostalgia sake, but it is rather repetitive. It doesnt hold up to RCG 1 or 22 found this helpful
If you somehow really want to play Kunio-tachi no Banka, one of the worst beat-em-ups on the Super Famicom/SNES, you'd be better off simply using a free emulator. River City Girls Zero is nothing more than a horrible emulator+rom+wrapper package that suffers from audio crackling, stutter, input lag, and bugs like no audio at all if you load a save state too quickly after making it. If you're a fan of the River City Girls games and want to see the new opening and ending cutscenes, do yourself a favor and watch them on YouTube. And I would like to reiterate that even on a good free emulator without any of these newly-introduced issues, Kunio-tachi no Banka is hot trash. Stiff controls, incredibly simplistic enemies and bosses, a max of two enemies on screen at once, and a combat loop that focuses on spamming special knockdown moves to avoid a lot of enemies breaking out of the most basic combo stings and dealing big damage. To rank this among beat-em-up classics like entries in the Streets of Rage or Final Fight franchises would be insane, but this game doesn't even compare well to entries in its own series. River City Ransom on the NES is way better, and even that game is just OK a…1 found this helpful
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.
An old-school beat 'em up from back in the day. It's great to play co-op with friends as you fight your way through the stages. And yes, it's a tough game!
just watch intro on youtube and skip this outdated game
THIS IS A HARD GAME, My fingers hurt after..lol
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