WayForward's River City Girls is an incredible beat 'em up RPG that has spawned a successful franchise and even an artbook. The first game has appeared on every modern platform other than mobile - until now. River City Girls is now available on iOS and Android through Crunchyroll Game Vault. Basically, paying Crunchyroll subscribers get free access to games in the vault, which is a great deal if you're already relying on the service to stream anime.
River City Girls takes place in a version of the River City Ransom/Kunio-kun universe. When the game begins, Kyoko and Misako, the girlfriends of Kunio and Riki, learn that their boyfriends have been kidnapped. The two teens set out to rescue their boyfriends and kick lots of thug and gangster butt. Along the way, they'll level up, earn money, and buy lots of items and upgrades from a variety of charming shopkeepers. It's everything you love about River City Ransom, but with a gorgeous art style and even more humor. See our co-op review for more details.
Mobile version features:
- Wild beat-'em-up action for one or two players!
- Glorious pixel-art graphics plus anime and motion-comic cutscenes!
- Fantastic soundtrack featuring Megan McDuffee, Chipzel, Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela, Dale North, and NateWantsToBattle!
- Six large city regions to fight through, complete with shops and side quests!
- Loads of weapons, items, and abilities to power-up your heroines!
- Guest appearances by classic River City and Double Dragon characters as well as River City's newest shopkeeper: Crunchyroll-Hime!
The exclusive new shopkeeper (pictured above) and 2-player local co-op support (which requires a controller) make this an interesting version of River City Girls. You can play single-player with touch controls, which could be fun as long as the difficulty has been adjusted (the first game is pretty tough).
To access River City Girls from the Crunchyroll Game Vault:
Step 1: Make sure you're a Mega or Ultimate Fan Crunchyroll member. If not, you can sign up right here!
Step 2: Log into the Crunchyroll app and look for the Crunchyroll Game Vault section.
Step 3: Pick your game, head to your platform's app store and download.
Step 4: Play!
River City Girls sells for $29.99 on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and Steam.