River City Saga: Journey to the West

This is a decent game that unfortunately makes too many bad decisions to compete with other action roguelites at the same or lower price point. I cleared the game once, and thought it was average at best. The moment to moment gameplay is fun, but there's not a lot of depth. The build and keepsake mechanics are directly ripped from Hades, so if you're tired of that formula, unfortunately this is more of the same. The new animations for the Kunio sprites are nice and still have as much personality as they did four decades ago. One of the things the game suffers from is sticking to the tired Hades formula too much. There's actually a nice collection of moves (even if many of the animations are ripped from the previous two Kunio games), but you can only equip one at a time. While this is not a combo game in any way, it sucks to have to remove your unique attack just to get another special. Many of the mid-run ones are worse than the default one, so I'm not sure why they didn't remap the mid-run moves to another button. The keepsakes (talismans) are a lot less interesting than their inspiration and mostly can be described as stat sticks or RNG mitigation. Runs are a bit long at around…

Mechanics and progression are just like in the game Hades but, instead of greek mythology, it's Journey to the West played by Kunio-kun characters in a funny way. Fun little game if you enjoy beating enemies up over and over. And if you're a Kunio fan it is a no brainer.

Kunio-kun game in name only. It's cool Arc tried a new genre for the series as Kunio's no stranger to doing that, but the end result was a generic and mindless roguelike stripped away of what makes Kunio click. Double Dragon Gaiden did a much better job of making a roguelike that felt fresh for the series while still keeping it's Double Dragon roots in-tact. Didn't help that this game is the 3rd time in a row we've gotten an ancient China theme. I thought Three Kingdoms was a cool novelty, then it's sequel came out 3 years later which I thought was lazy but still fun, and now we're here with yet another one. Would've liked this more as a bonus gamemode in Three Kingdoms Next or better yet even as a straight up modern revival of Technos' China Gate.

It's unusual for the Kunio series, in that it is instead a linear roguelike beat'em up. But is quite tough (even though it thankfully features an Assist Mode) compared to the other games, don't expect to get it done on one sitting!

Another fun addition to the Kunio franchise, love the RPG elements.

[url=https://youtu.be/F8_SErbdfMM]Full video review 📺[/url] https://youtu.be/F8_SErbdfMM At first glance it feels like something you’ve played before, borrowing heavily from familiar roguelike design. But once your build starts taking shape, it becomes way more interesting. Different upgrades, character options, and run modifiers create more variety than expected, and even failed attempts still feel like you’re building toward something meaningful.