River City Girls 2 Review (Sora Keyblade03)
River City Girls 2 is an absolutely upgrade from the first game. I started with a Nightmare difficulty and haven't changed it. I've played exclusively as Misako and haven completed the game yet. With that, let me give my pre-end game review.
The fighting only gets more heated and fun with every ability/combo move you unlock. their are enough moves and different effects of stagger and knock ups each move does that just makes it so great if you love comboing. That's pretty much the meat of it for me with this game. Combos can go on and on and on even after you kill your enemy, and their are so many different typed of combo-leads after a complete normal combo.
Bosses are different now slightly. They don't block attacks anymore but run, which is slightly annoying but is never over bearing unless you are trying to do a long high damage combo. Not even aerial combos change that, but by the time you get a launcher move and a full aerial combo that's already and infinite right next to a wall waiting to happen.
Regular enemies are all here from the first with a 6 new groups. I found LARPer's to be very special where they have stat effect moves. I don't know if they stack but it's definitively better to get rid of them first rather than targeting anyone else. If they hit you with their special ranged attack. You might as well say goodbye to 1/4 of your cash and any recruits you claimed or purchased in that moment.
I don't have much to say about the music besides that they are reused for areas from the first RCG and that they have a amazing new track's in place like the mall or the the Court in Downtown. I'm absolutely loving "River City Girls Anthem" ( https://youtu.be/MEqGAf_Ior4 ;link) right now. It's the only thing that completely held my mind since the Sonic Frontiers Bosses OST.
I've only played as Misako and will be back for a replay of Kyoko, Riki, Kunio, Marian, and Provie after I finally beat this game. I've collected all recruits and their special last 2 variants all that's left is to Collect all the achievements and it'll be onto the dumb plays where it's all just deaths and not farming money and moves because of how impossibly fun this games combat is. But as the rule of the universe says, Combat won't be as fun the next time because your moves are so limited.