River City Saga: Journey to the West

This is a decent game that unfortunately makes too many bad decisions to compete with other action roguelites at the same or lower price point. I cleared the game once, and thought it was average at best. The moment to moment gameplay is fun, but there's not a lot of depth. The build and keepsake mechanics are directly ripped from Hades, so if you're tired of that formula, unfortunately this is more of the same. The new animations for the Kunio sprites are nice and still have as much personality as they did four decades ago. One of the things the game suffers from is sticking to the tired Hades formula too much. There's actually a nice collection of moves (even if many of the animations are ripped from the previous two Kunio games), but you can only equip one at a time. While this is not a combo game in any way, it sucks to have to remove your unique attack just to get another special. Many of the mid-run ones are worse than the default one, so I'm not sure why they didn't remap the mid-run moves to another button. The keepsakes (talismans) are a lot less interesting than their inspiration and mostly can be described as stat sticks or RNG mitigation. Runs are a bit long at around an hour, which is worsened by the fact that the builds are even more rigid than Hades (one property per button). This means that your build doesn't really get crazy or interesting enough to warrant the game's long runtime. With a bit more freedom on build diversity and a shorter run length, I'd play this longer, but as it is now it's only fun every once in a while. In terms of the overall run experience, the game suffers from questionable pacing with each room respawning enemies several times, more often than not ranged enemies spamming from outside the FOV behind traps. This means that attrition damage is really dangerous and annoying, and towards the end of the run this becomes far more frequent. Ironically the bosses are better designed than the mob fights, with consistent patterns and damage windows. Mobs respawning less and reducing how many traps spawn would go a long way towards making this game faster and less frustrating. It feels like the game is trying to pad out its small amount of content with poor design decisions like this, but these decisions also make the game not something you'd boot up over better choices in the genre for similar or lower price points. Postgame content is nonexistent, with only more metaprogression to unlock. Given how annoying the game can be to clear even on the first time, this might be for the best. Overall the game isn't bad, but there's no real reason to buy this frame 1 if you haven't already fully harvested better action roguelikes around this price point. The game itself also lacks a lot of QOL which helps longer roguelikes feel worth playing, such as in-run saves, borderless fullscreen and graphics options. While the game is affordable, missing these things is laughable when smaller games that exist without an ancient IP have them along with other good features too. The poor performance on the lead platform (Switch) can't be ignored and is honestly unacceptable. I assume they made this in UE5 to speed up dev time, but it clearly wasn't worth it. A game that passes for a Dreamcast game should not be pushing the Steam Deck as hard as a AAA game, haha.

怎么没有无边框窗口选项？用全屏分辨率玩，32：9被拉得很长变形了。用窗口模式玩一直有边框还有桌面一堆图标影响游玩心情。赶紧优化。

Kunio-kun game in name only. It's cool Arc tried a new genre for the series as Kunio's no stranger to doing that, but the end result was a generic and mindless roguelike stripped away of what makes Kunio click. Double Dragon Gaiden did a much better job of making a roguelike that felt fresh for the series while still keeping it's Double Dragon roots in-tact. Didn't help that this game is the 3rd time in a row we've gotten an ancient China theme. I thought Three Kingdoms was a cool novelty, then it's sequel came out 3 years later which I thought was lazy but still fun, and now we're here with yet another one. Would've liked this more as a bonus gamemode in Three Kingdoms Next or better yet even as a straight up modern revival of Technos' China Gate.

Out of pure nostalgia, I really wanted to play River City Saga: Journey to the West. I launched it with a mix of excitement and apprehension. In fact, I ended up putting James Bond aside, I didn't even finish it,because Nekketsu showed up, brother. I say excitement because it was another game set in a world I've loved since childhood. I say apprehension because time is merciless, and over the years many legendary franchises have returned only to prove that nostalgia alone can't carry a game. Some tried to reinvent themselves so aggressively that they forgot what made them special in the first place. Others remained stuck in the past and ended up feeling like relics. River City Saga: Journey to the West, however, pulls off something far more difficult: it feels old in all the right ways and new exactly where it needs to be. The premise is already absurd enough to work perfectly. The classic Chinese novel Journey to the West is reimagined through the Nekketsu lens, and the result is exactly the kind of madness fans of the series expect. Sun Wukong is Kunio. Zhu Bajie is Kunio. Sha Wujing is Kunio. Basically, it feels as if someone took one of the most important works of Asian literature and decided it would be much more entertaining if the entire cast settled every conflict with punches to the head and flying fists. And the funniest part is that it works brilliantly in practice.

全実績解除済、ゲーム内プレイ時間としては６時間半程度で達成する。 解除要素などの強化はしなくても出来るが、真エンディング以上の要素があるかは不明。 （クリア後は難易度上がるが、それ以上上がる要素無さそう？） 単純にローグライトアクションをやりたいって人であれば、 こちらよりほぼ同じシステムと価格帯のHades買った方が値段とボリューム面でお得です。 くにおくんシリーズだからという方は現状ボリューム不足感があるので、お布施じゃなければセール待ちましょう。 難易度は別に高くないので（[spoiler] 気力回復増やして普賢菩薩の必殺連打して殴ってれば勝てる [/spoiler]） クリア自体は割と簡単、ただ、くにおくんシリーズでローカルにすらマルチ無いのはがっかり。 ついでにプレイアブルがくにお×３なのもちょっと… ゲーム自体がつまらない訳では無いが、やはり価格とボリュームのつり合いでおすすめしにくい。 これで三国志みたいに続編出されても多分買わないかな。 ・くにおくんを懐かしく思う（or好き） ・さくっと終わるローグライトアクション探してる ・複雑な要素いらない この辺引っかかる人は触ってみても良いかもしれない。

写给当年爱玩fc的还在观望这款游戏的玩家： 优点 1 加了各种神给的肉鸽加成，有一定重玩价值 2 当年的味道还是有一点，某个瞬间会让你想起当年坐在你旁边小板凳那个不爱玩游戏爱看着你的女孩 3 然后就没有了优点了直接看缺点 缺点 1 小品级重得小品，感觉当年flash的游戏流程都比他强，可能作者觉得重玩就能自动填充游戏时长，但是你好歹地图内容做丰富点随机啊 2 战斗分为招式（平a）异术（重击或防反）仙术（小技能）大招 然后就没了 操作上没啥策略，只是凑各种构筑堆伤害最大化嗯就这么简单别怀疑，但是回想一下这tm是热血系列的玩法吗，场景互动呢，道具互动呢 全没了这还是那个热血吗 别逗我们这些中登笑了 3 自以为无厘头的剧情可以直接跳过不用怀疑答辩里没有一点巧克力味道 4 养成也是一言难尽 拆成好几类 又乱有没啥投放策略（关卡里选的那些真没啥意义流程短你不带脑子一样刷） 5 关卡设计也是怎么说呢 先打远程再打近层（过程中绕x遍陷阱）你是在敷衍我吗 boss分为两种 小兵型 高大型 前者无脑过 后者先打局部再打本体对就没了 你是在敷衍我吗 综上所述 又是一款卖情怀的粪作 30块量级的小品作品 但是你问我为啥不退款 我只是怀念那个夏天坐旁边那个爱看着我笑得女孩罢了 无他

Mechanics and progression are just like in the game Hades but, instead of greek mythology, it's Journey to the West played by Kunio-kun characters in a funny way. Fun little game if you enjoy beating enemies up over and over. And if you're a Kunio fan it is a no brainer.