River City Girls 2features a variety of different enemy and enemy types for Kyoko and Misako to encounter and subsequently beat the ever-loving snot out of. While beating someone unconscious has its own appeal, however, there is also a distinctive attraction in beating them within aninchof unconsciousness and then forcefully conscripting them to your cause.
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Every single enemy type in River City Girls 2 can be brought over to your side as a recruit, allowing you to call them in for a quick striker attack, fighting game-style. Of course, given the variety of different combatants out there, it’s pretty much a given that some of them are more overtly useful than others.
11The Students - School Boys, School Girls, And Cheerleaders
River City High may be the only high school in the city as far as we can discern, but it’s apparently got quite the sprawling student body, almost all of its members horrible. You’ve got the schoolboys running around slinging sand in people’s faces, school girls delivering flying kicks to everyone they don’t like (which is everyone else), and cheerleaders who seem just a bit too happy at all hours of the day.
Apparently, some of these kids work as for-hire thugs for the Sabu Family, which is why they directly oppose Kyoko and Misako. However, others were just kind of milling about and saw the potential for violence as a decent way to kill time. Beats doing homework.
Considering how many bad things go down in River City in a regular basis, it would honestly be more surprising if the city streetsweren’tabsolutely lousy with various flavors of crook. You’ve got your dime-store thugs with stereotypical pompadours, crooked cops on the Sabu Family payroll (or individual ones who are just jerks), and of course, the shirtless yakuza enforcers with their tattoos on proud display.
There are so many bad dudes in River City, their presence isn’t even that remarkable anymore. You’re just walking to the mall and see a gaggle of yakuza toughs getting into a fistfight with schoolgirls and think, “yep, this is where I’vechosen to livemy life.”
9Trash - Sledgehammer-Slingin' Jerk
Have you ever tried to actuallylifta sledgehammer? Like a full-sized, construction-grade one? Those things are heavy! It takes a good few seconds just to wind up one proper swing, to say nothing of lugging it around all day. This leads us to believe that local delinquent Trash does so more for style points than practicality.
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Trash can deliver some powerful blows with his sledgehammer, for certain, though half the time it doesn’t seem like he has full control of the thing. He seems like the kind of guy who enjoys mindless, directionless chaos and violence, though, so that’s probably not a downside for him.
8Kayo - High Fashion, Weaponized
Certain subsets of modern fashion are a bit on the dangerous side, covering clothing and accessories in spiky points and hard studs. River City fashionista Kayo eventually realized that this particular style is just as functional as it is flashy.
With her heavy-duty spiked chained purse, Kayo leaps into the air to perform flying spin attacks. Goodness knows what kind of junk she’s got stashed in that thing to make it so dangerously heavy. At the very least, the clasp must be just as heavy-duty to keep it all from flying out!
7Waver - A Wild Kid(?) In a Bear Costume
According to Waver’s profile, she’s apparently a notorious gambler with a penchant for high-stakes thrills. This is a bit confusing, given that A: she appears to be a child, and B: she is wearing a bear costume. Those two factors don’t exactly spell “high-stakes gambler” to us, but maybe our perspective is just too limited.
Whatever her personal deal is, those bear claws aren’t just for show. Waver will pounce on foes from on high, crushing them with her remarkable weight and adding a claw slash for good measure.
6The Wrestlers - Tigerman And Luchadora
It’s pretty much an objective scientific fact that everything ever is better with wrestlers. You name a setting, wrestlers will improve it, guaranteed. Their combination of raw brute strength and flashy kayfabe can turn any encounter into an unforgettable spectacle.
River City has a sizable wrestling scene, full of masked Tigermen and leaping Luchadoras. These brutal grapplers have all the classic tricks, from spinning pile drivers to flying elbows. Even if there are no ropes to bounce off of, they still have the mysterious ability to send themselves flying for a body slam at a moment’s notice.
5The Machines - Cyborgs And C.A.T.S.
Apparently, at some point in the distant future, it was decided that all robots must either be over-muscled dudes with flat tops and Austrian accents or sleek gynoids with cat ears. The machinations of the technologically inclined are not for us to question, especially when they make such good combatants!
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River City’s inexplicable population of Cyborgs are packing powerful metallic bones and musculature under their not-so-ordinary exteriors, while the C.A.T.S. line of mechanoids employs a more precise, methodical kind of combat revolving around pinpoint strikes. Also, they purr, which is cute.
4Chin - Kung-Fu Kicker With Chucks And Tunes
The majority of low-level scrappers around River City don’t have much in the way of actual martial arts skill, opting instead for swinging heavy objects around or flailing their fists. Chin is no low-level scrapper, though. He’s the real deal, with skill in Shaolin kung-fu and the ability to channel ki.
That’s already pretty cool, but what makes him cooler is his style. Chin is never without his signature tape deck and headphones, as well as a pair of spiked nunchaku. He’s a breaker and a chucker; basically, every 80s martial arts flick personified.
3The Supernaturals - LARPers And Yokai
Considering there is a nonzero number of publicly-known spellcasters in River City, it’s not particularly strange to see both spell-slingers andcreatures of the nightcasually walking the city streets. Though,powerful witches like Blairemust be hogging all the good magic, because the leftovers are a bit sillier.
The members of River City’s LARPer community have some minor aptitude with magic, able to channel ice or poison magic into spray cans, though most of them just settle for cool skateboard tricks. There are also the zombified remains of a school marching band hanging around and striking from the shadows with cymbals that nobody seems to be talking about.
Some people just seem to naturally radiate both power and authority, and Miss Martha Splatterhead’s got ‘em in spades. Maybe it’s her wild mane of electrically-charged hair. Maybe it’s her impeccably-sharp fashion sense. Maybe it’s the fact that she can shoot lightning out of her eyes! Hard to say what the defining factor is here, but together, they make quite the combination.
Amusingly, Martha’s name and profile are loaded with references. Her name is a reference to an album by The Accüsed, and her profile contains a nod to a ’90s Technos game, The Combatribes. Technos developed the original Double Dragon andKunio-kun games, incidentally.
