Finishing off the River City Girls trilogy with the REAL sequel, RCG2!
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Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Announcement to Release: 00:47
Gameplay and New Stuff: 6:51
Crosstown: 17:20
Downtown: 33:19
Uptown: 40:21
Flatirons: 45:56
Technos: 56:31
Ocean Heights: 1:04:45
River City High: 1:12:09
Sanwakai Tower: 1:21:46
New Game Plus: 1:27:16
100%ing this Game Sucks: 1:30:44
Be Better, Wayforward: 1:33:54
Music in order of appearance
Throw Some Shade from RCG2
Happy Shabby Life ~Daytime Walking on Scarescrow Field~ from Chulip
Urth Middle School Teachers’ Strictness from Chulip
Swankalicious from RCG2
N64 Yoshi Valley from Mario Kart 8
Pound the Pavement from RCG2
Technobabble from RCG2
Waluigi’s Island from Mario Party 3
This Machine from Sonic Heroes
I’m Better than You from RCG2
Vector Sunset from RCG2
No. 2 Pencil Shank from RCG2
Ken from RCG2
Ken Battle from Kunio-tachi no Banka
Vibe and Grime from RCG2
River City Girls Anthem from RCG2
Crunchy Punchy from RCG2
Marian from RCG2
My Close Friends (Manga 6) from RCG2
Club Monsters from RCG2
Dance Arcade from RCG2
Provie from RCG2
Scrawny Little Yakuza (Manga 7.2) from RCG2
Customer Rewards from Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
Haunt from RCG2
Curse from Dragon Quest
Bone Bounce from RCG2
Things of Mist from RCG2
Blaire from RCG2
Born into Magic (Manga 7) from RCG2
Computations from RCG2
Megabyter from RCG2
Your Like from RCG2
Tsuiko from RCG2
Vices from RCG2
Feel the Heat from RCG2
Primo from RCG2
Waterfront from RCG2
Notebooks and Nail Bats from RCG2
muscle blues from Persona 4
Ken + Dragon Twins from RCG2
Ya Basic from RCG2
Born Bad from RCG2
Sabu from RCG2
The Completionist theme by EliteFerrex
Yesterday from RCG2
Thanks for your Time from RCG2
Chillout from RCG2
Roundabout by Yes (aka Jojo ED1)
Thank you so much for watching!!
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Spare me the 3 minute robot gooning sesh next time
46:06 yeaaaah, my feelings exactly. Very outdated.
Edit: 1:02:43 oh god, thank lucifur i changed the voices to japanese.
Yeah… about Tsuiko… Remember Charlotte from Fire Emblem Fates? Who was also voiced by Brianna Knickerbocker? This is what happens when she marries Mark Beaks from the Ducktales reboot. And imagine if the Ducktales reboot got a video game. Beaks's fight would be like Tsuiko's except it would be a slew of Disney platformers: Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers, etc.
I just fucking hate both RCG1 and RCG2
Some of the most overrated Beat Em Ups ever
Stop hiring youtubers with no acting chops to be VAs for gods sake. Matt is entertaining on his channel with his "Wut Happen?" series but this doesnt sound like character acting, just being himself.
fair review I think. I understand where youre comin from fam.
Good video
EDIT: changed comment to be more specific. generalizing is bad.
I still get jumpscared by Arin's voice
13:30 No Eleanor? Bad list xD
Yeah on the writting part, I get that they were going for, the classic dumb guy and straight guy interaction , with Kyoko and Misako being dumb as a brick and that annoying the more grounded cast, the problem here is…there's no serious characters for them to bounce off, everyone is an idiot in RC and that makes some of the jokes fall flat since there's no point of sanity, I feel that to be a reocurring thing in Wayforward games from what I've played. Not a big fan, but that's me.
The sequel may play better but everything else is the reason why I've played RCG1 way more than RCG2.
Some things in this video I can agree with in some things I don't. Like I can totally agree with how this game was handled in terms of its release date, its state it was released in and obviously the gameplay. However I don't think the game is that bad like you're making it out to beep I honestly think it's OK maybe it's 6 or of 7. One other controversial opinion I only have for the YouTube voice actors are that bad they're not great sure but they're not terrible.
It's what you get when you give westerners the ability to write for Japanese IPs… a reason why "wokalizer" is a term in the end…
I liked the game for what it was, a funny and colorful beat em up with youtuber cameos, especially double dragons being playable and having voice lines for all the characters.
The character redesigns are atrocious 😂😂😂
Misako doesnt feel like misako at all 😂😂
Alejandro Saab? Kaggy/Cy Yu?! You mean when I was fighting Primo in the game, I was basically punching the shit out of Kaggy/Cy Yu?!
Too late, dude. I 100% this game a year ago. And yeah, it's a nightmare… and a chore.
I wonder if Omega would shout stuff like "Annihilation!" while smashing
38:25 if you want to land longer combos on bosses, knock them down and then use guard crush. Convert it into a combo as they're knocked into the air and you'll pretty much get to wail on them until they reach their hard-set phase transitions.
53:46 “realistic scenarios” you forgot about Yamada, who has telekinetic powers in the classic Kunio Kun games. Not exactly realistic
1:28:36 those secret areas aren’t a new game plus thing, they’re accessible during a New Game
Also if you thought 20 minutes was a tight time limit for removing all the bombs, Nightmare difficulty makes it 10 minutes
Characters – You forgetting the fact that not only they act like serious and dumb character… Every character have 2 sets of dialogue (besides Kyoko apparently). So, if you partner a character with right second character, they either gonna say Kyoko lines or Misako lines. Even Misako itself can say Kyoko lines!
Online – I actually thought "maybe it's because I'm not live in America, Steam servers can't find me anything" but guess that's the problem everywhere. I was surprised that online was that dead and I bought the game week after it's release.
Difficulty – Erm.. maybe it's me but first Ken and Provie boss fights tear me to shreds but after that, every other boss fight were really easy. I was not even used food, because why you need that? Noize can heal you for free! Maybe it's because I was playing on normal difficulty? But why first 2 bosses I encounter were hard and actually memorable? Guess you just don't need to use Noize, or you gonna make this game baby mode. I still used her like 0-2 times in those battles anyway.
Attacks combos – I love that they made new moves and air combos but it's still repetitive. Because why you need to use other combinations if the longest air one can defeat anyone in one single combo?
Fetch quests – no really… There's too many. I love that they highlight the area where you need to search (but not for the gears as I know)
Godai – dude, they have sick concept art of him in some science tech! Is it me or he's SUPPOSED to be a Secret Boss of the game? Is would be so much cooler!
Story – I'm still confused which ending is canon and I'm disappointed that boys never have a role in the story, like.. why do they advertise the game that way? I thought they 4 gonna beat bad guys, but they just… Idk… Bathing again, while girls saving the day I suppose? Not talking about unlockable characters. Maybe those 2 would be difficult to add in story because you can open areas in different order… Idk. And then they 6 there in the end which makes zero sense.
New DLC trailer – IS THAT JAIDEN I HEAR?
Ok. I usually don't write this kind of comment (really, this is the first time I do), but I watched the whole thing and all I can say is: Most of the time you sound like an annoying whiny brat.
Still left a like, it's a really well made/edited vid.
Overall, I can agree on a few points with Tsuiko being the worst boss and the characters reading the same lines as Misako and Kyoko being lame; but the other stuff just comes off as you overreacting for the sake of the review. I didn’t have a problem with the performances of the voice actors like Matt McMuscles.
And as a longtime fan of Riki, I love his redesign in RCG