River City: Rival Showdown gives me โ90s retro action I love and โ90s gaming frustration I hate
SHOULD I PLAY RIVER CITY: RIVAL SHOWDOWN?
Give this one a go if youโre a fan of the River City Ransom series, beat โem ups, or old-school games in general. River City: Rival Showdown is a remaster of the remake of River City Ransom, which was first released for the Famicom in 1989. That lineage might sound confusing, but Rival Showdown offers a great mix of new and classic elements: updated backgrounds, a day/night cycle, an open world to explore, beat โem up adventure, and RPG elements that will get any fan of the original hooked. Itโs not modernized enough to get rid of a lot of the more frustrating parts of classic games, though, so youโll need a little bit of a masochistic streak to really fall in love with this one.