River City Girls
River City Girls stars Kyoko and Misako, two street-tough high-schoolers who must fight their way through the six regions of River City to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series mainstays Kunio and Riki…
River City Girls is an adventure developed by Arc System Works, released 4 September 2019 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What River City Girls is
River City Girls is an adventure game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2019. It was published by WayForward. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hot-headed Misako and her upbeat best friend Kyoko are stuck in detention at River City High when a phone photo shows their boyfriends, Kunio and Riki, apparently being kidnapped. Wasting no time, the two friends bust out and take to the streets, storming through the city in search of answers. Brawling their way past every gang, thug, and boss who stands in their way, Misako and Kyoko battle across River City to track down and rescue the two missing boys.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Kunio-kun series
River City Girls is the 80th of 96 entries we hold in the Kunio-kun series. It arrived 2 years after River City Melee: Battle Royal Special. The next entry was River City Melee Mach!! in 2019. Its critic score of 77 is 9 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is River City Ransom EX at 91.
How it was received
River City Girls holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 73 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel(R) Core 2 Duo E7500, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
River City Girls launched on 4 September 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for River City Girls yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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