River City Girls

Released September 5, 2019 · consists of 9 releases.

When Kunio and Riki are kidnapped, it's up to their girlfriends to get them back in this collaboration between WayForward and Arc System Works.

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River City Girls

First release date	September 5, 2019
Platform	PC , Xbox One , PlayStation 4 , Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 5 , Amazon Luna
Developer	WayForward Technologies
Publisher	Arc System Works Co., Ltd. , Limited Run Games , H2 Interactive Co. Ltd.
Genre	Brawler
Theme	Comedy , Crime
Franchises	River City Ransom , River City Girls
Aliases	Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-Kun Gaiden: River City Girls

Overview

River City Girls is a 2D brawler developed by WayForward and published by WayForward and Arc System Works for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. A physical edition of the latter two releases was published by Limited Run Games.

Players choose from Kyoko and Misako, who have been alerted that their 'boyfriends' Kunio and Riki have been kidnapped. They battle through River City looking for clues, and come across a plethora of kooky characters from Technos history.

At the end of the game, it is revealed that Kyoko and Misako are not really Kunio and Riki's girlfriends, just girls they dated "once" in a 16-bit game which hadn't left Japan at the time (pointed out in typical Kunio-Kun fashion with a very unsubtle fourth wall break). Furthermore, Riki and Kunio hadn't actually been kidnapped, they had just been spending the day at the sauna.

System Requirements

PC

PC Minimum	PC Recommended
Operating System: Windows 7 (64-bit OS required) Processor: Intel(R) Core 2 Duo E7500 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space	Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: AMD Phenom(TM) II X6 1035T @3100 MHz / Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 3770 @3400 MHz or higher Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series / NVIDIA GTX 950 or higher DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space

External Links

River City Girls Official Site

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Specific release details

	River City Girls
Platform	Xbox One
Region	Japan
Developer	WayForward Technologies
Publisher	Arc System Works Co., Ltd.
Release date	N/A
Product code	None
Company code	None
Rating
Minimum Players	1
Maximum Players	N/A
Resolutions	N/A
Sound Systems	N/A
Single player Features	N/A
Multi player Features	N/A
Widescreen Support	No
Notes	N/A

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