River City Girls Zero - PS 5
This steaming, pile of shit is the worst, fucking, beat 'em up I have ever played...and the worst River City game I've ever played. I don't know what possessed Wayforward to release this crap in the US. It should have stayed in Japan where it could be forgotten.
If you want to play a decent River City game this year, try River City Saga: Three Kingdoms. It's a pretty fun game. I wouldn't recommend River City Girls Zero to my worst enemy.
FUCK THIS GAME. It's an insult to the beat 'em up genre, especially in a year where some decent games came out like Shredder's Revenge (even though I didn't enjoy that game as much as other people did), the aforementioned RVCS: Three Kingdoms, and Midnight Fight Express. Wayforward got some good will with gamers with River City Girls, I don't know why they would follow it up with this garbage that clearly never got a US release for good reason...BECAUSE IT'S AWFUL.
The game plays like a really, awful, shitty version of Double Dragon on the NES. Also, none of the RPG elements that the franchise has become known for are in this game. It's just a straight, side scrolling, beat 'em up, but a terrible one.
The controls suck. The hit detection is all over the place. Jump kicks are the best move...when the hit detection actually works. The AI is cheap as fuck. The combat is bland as you have so few actual moves at your disposal. Your characters are super, fucking, slow. There's a fight involving a ferris wheel that is just stupid and pointless. There's a pointless section of the game where you watch your character ride a roller coster for like 5 minutes for no apparent reason while you just twiddle your thumbs waiting for the game to actually become interactive again, but, hey, at least you get a stupid trophy for the game wasting your time. There are motorcycle levels that feel like something that came out of the pits of hell. There is way too much dialog given that the story is boring as fuck. There is literally NOTHING good about this game. It's the Superman 64 of side scrolling beat 'em ups. Scratch that, there is ONE good thing about the game. I will give credit to the talented woman who sings the very catchy intro/title screne theme music. Here, give it a listen. It's the only thing in this game worth a damn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmRUtkaQyM
I have nothing more to say about this game because I have already wasted more words on this trash than it deserves. I give it a 0 out of 10...maybe a 1 out of 10 for that intro music. That's me being generous.