River City Ransom: Underground

Pros + Decent soundtrack + Artstyle looks cool + Stat growth system is cool + Many characters to choose from + Combo/juggling system is pretty fun Cons - Some Characters are terrible and take too long to be enjoyable. - Tooltips are awfully undescriptive - Minimap is completely useless and misleading - Some missions can be incredibly tedious - You get knocked to the ground if you run into any type of obstacle (very annoying) - Clunky controls - Many zones/levels are poorly designed:

I must say that this game rocks, i am older player and I find it hard to get into any modern game as I am dedicated to old school. Yet this game is fun to play - it can be 5 mins play or a few hours session. On Linux Mint 20 it detected my ps3 controller with no problem, assigned comfortable keys and turned on vibration - pretty cool if you ask me. No problems noticed in first 2hrs of gaming. I must only say that there are no game servers online and if I want to create one I was not able to enter the name for the server - my gamepad just stopped reacting. Yet, if all NES games get such quality remakes without silly 3rd dimension I would probably purchase more games like this one. I recommend.

Thinking about getting this game? Ask yourself three questions. Do i feel nostalgic about oldschool unforgiving difficulty? Yes or No Am i eager to spend time leveling up my characters? Yes or No Will i explore a small openworld retro pixel town? Yes or No If you said yes to all three then you wont regret it, Have Fun!

A game that is on my wishlist for a very long time because I felt in love with it when we played at my friend's house in hotseat. A remake based on the localization of a game, "really?", you should think. This is more a tribute to the experience we had as childs rather than to the Kunio-games. Intended or I'm the only one who feels like this, I don't know. RCRU is a beat 'em up game with level up system, manageable stat development, and loose combo mechanics. There is a lot of characters with different focus and different way of crowd control, because most of the fights is actually about crowd control. The difficulty (especially on higher difficulty) is what we call "NES-like". The AI calculate the distance, the timing, and moderately capable of sensing openings in your movements. Your special moves is the only way of countering this so you have to know the characters inside out if you want to play on hard. You can chain your moves very well and situationally anything can follow up anything successfuly. Unlike the original game however there is an energy bar to limit the use of special moves but you will barelly feel it if you not just spam them. It is an open world game but some places requires story progress to get access. After you get the grip of the mechanics you will often find yourself going back to previous areas for buying things to develop your character. The world is made up from separate places and whenever you re-enter one, random enemies will spawn again. You're not forced to beat them and can keep moving forward but hey! You get XP and cash for them, and after all the battle is the fun part! Multiplayer, online and hotseat. Story mode, arena VS., new game + bonus options, unlockables, even after achieving 100% completion you still will find fun here. Additionally I would love to mention something. If you run the game without Galaxy client you can play online with direct connection instead of lobby. For me this was an important plus.

River City Ransom Underground [RCRU] is not perfect. Expect that, it is a feature of the game (...i think). RCRU is a tongue-and-cheek call out to River City Ransom with all the old looks, midi-style music tracks and all the annoyances that were present with the 8-bit version . See Also: >Wonky/ Brutal A.I. > Endlessly Regenerating Bad Guys > Inescapable Kill Loops >Steep Learning Curve >Severe Punishment for Dying I have to hand it to the developers for their efforts to make this game happen. When the game first came out, this game was bugged out. The Dev's could have dropped this game like a bad date. I think they did a great job in addressing the major issues of the game, and throwing in some fun bonuses along the way too. I am a geezer of a gamer and I have been enjoying the hell out of this beat 'em up. I completely understand the non-recommend side. The game is a bit slow, your moves aren't going to land well, there is a lot of pointless fighting and if you get trapped you just have to watch you character die. Again, this game isn't perfect; I don't think it was meant to be, but it still is pretty fun. A Dad grilled burger on a summer day/10 (Review transferred from steam account; 41 hrs of game play)