Publisher: AKSYS Games

Genre: Fighting

Wii Points: 500

Rating: Recommended

What’s interesting about River City Ransom, is that the same people who brought us Bit Trip Beat for WiiWare, also brought us this game!  They are different in a lot of ways, one game is a Pong remake and the other is one of the oldest beat’em up titles ever.  But both games share the common theme in that it’s best played with a friend.

There are strangely some RPG elements to River City Ransom.  This will especially be evident when you go into towns and buy food (or some other strange item…).  For example, if you go into a seafod restaurant, after you buy salmon, it will immediately give you + points in a certain areas relating to strength and the ability to evade.  You can even store some items and use it during the battle, just like in Final fantasy.

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