![]() Here it is, our reunion with Alex and Ryan, and they’re now 20 years older. If you attack a teacher you get sent to his office, but that’s about the only connection he has with River City Ransom: Underground, and he’ll appear elsewhere with fewer story reasons to appear.įrom there you escape from the school and eventually flee into the sewers, you make your way through and get to a car shop. I wish this was played up a little more, or made into a story point, because I love Double Dragon a lot, and Abobo is a great character, and seeing him is so much fun. ![]() The principal of the school is played by Abobo of Double Dragon fame. The Mayor calling out “Chris” looks great, nice style to this scene.Īctually after the movie, the police and the principal of the school attack you. Go beat up a bunch of gangs who are attacking you. It’s a famous movie for a reason and works well with the River City Ransom story. Yeah, it’s clear this game starts with the Warrior story, and honestly, I could accept that. ![]() A gang is being called out by a leader, they’re being persecuted incorrectly and now must fight a number of other gangs… It’s like that movie, and that game, The Warriors. That’s weird since all the other gangs are completely homogeneous but that’s part of the game, ok fine. Odd video but it turns out The Flock is your gang, all four characters who are quite unique and different belong to this one gang. When you get there, the teacher plays a video that turns out to be the Mayor calling for all gangs to beat up The Flock and the leader “Chris”. There are multiple classrooms but you have to go to a specific one. The game is a bit vague with its story at the beginning just telling you to get to class. Well, I wanted to see Alex and Ryan again, and I played through the story. Alex and Ryan are gone for some reason, and you’re at the new River City High School in a different part of the map. River City Ransom: Underground then jumps 20 years into the future, and suddenly you’re one of four new characters. ![]() You can hear how thrilled I am to play the game in my first look, the entire time after hitting “Start” I was loving the fact I was playing a new River City Ransom. River City Ransom: Underground also does a great job of teaching you how to play and showing that bosses only can get damaged by certain attacks. The graphics are really good in my opinion, it reminds me exactly of the original game, there are enemies talking at the bottom as you kill enemies, and bosses appear after beating the gangs on the screen. Yeah, we’re getting a lot of callbacks, including most of the bosses, and enemies, but that’s part of the fun of a retro game. River City Ransom: Underground starts with a password screen from the original game, and then a really solid tutorial as Alex and Ryan, the characters from the first game are back in school to face off against Slick, the boss of the first game. From there, the options also have multiple retro modes including a GBA style screen coloring. The game pretty much hits you over the head with it, with a TV frame, and an old NES style character on the logo. So here I sit today writing a review based on a classic NES game.īooting up River City Ransom: Underground, you clearly get the feeling that someone wants you to know this is a retro game. They went to the current rights holder (Arc System Works) and licensed the game, and from there made the sequel which is named River City Ransom: Underground. Apparently Conatus Creative had a Kickstarter to make a sequel to the original River City Ransom. Wait what? Yeah, there’s an odd story here. So twenty years later, we have a sequel in America to River City Ransom. If you’ve never played it, you missed out on a really great NES game, it was a fighting game with RPG elements and a decent story for the time. ![]() We’re going to talk about a successor to one such hidden gem, River City Ransom. However, once you get past the ultra common and popular titles, the NES has a few dubious games, as well as some hidden gems. It’s a fact, they’re some of the best games, perhaps of all time. If you talk about the great NES titles, almost everyone is going to talk about Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Brothers. ![]()
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