River City Girls Fans Should Consider Getting Zero Before the Sequel
WayForward has been pretty busy in the last few years. On top of carrying on with the beloved Shantae franchise and working on a variety of games based on outside IPs, WayForward found significant success with its beat 'em up River City Girls. Technically, River City Girls isn't a WayForward original; it's a spinoff of the Kunio-kun franchise, and its development was overseen by Kunio-kun owner Arc System Works. Nonetheless, WayForward has really made River City Girls and the Kunio-kun characters its own, earning high praise for the game's writing, combat, art, and more. It's no surprise, then, that River City Girls 2 has already been confirmed by WayForward.
However, WayForward recently told fans that it has another project in the works that it's referring to as River City Girls Zero. As the title suggests, the game could be interpreted as a prequel to 2019's River City Girls, but it's actually not a new game at all. Rather, it's an upgraded and newly translated version of the Kunio-kun game in which River City Girls stars Misako and Kyoko first fight alongside their respective boyfriends, Kunio and Riki. River City Girls Zero will offer a lot of fans the first opportunity to experience Misako and Kyoko's origins.
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River City Girls Zero's original name is Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka. Released in 1994 for the Super Famicom as a Japan exclusive, Kunio-tachi no Banka sees Nekketsu High School students Kunio and Riki sent to prison for a hit-and-run that they swear they didn't commit. When they catch word that a Kunio lookalike has been spotted around Nekketsu High, Kunio and Riki break out of prison to find the
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