River City Ransom Sequel Punching Its Way To Japanese 3DS eShop This Month

Villain Riku becomes the hero

by Damien McFerran Wed 5th Dec 2012

The WiiWare sequel may be on hold, but that doesn't mean that 3DS gamers won't get their fix of River City Ransom in 2012.

Arc System Works is launching a spin-off title for the Japanese 3DS eShop called Riki Densetsu. As the title suggests ("Densetsu" means "Legend" in Japanese), the game will focus on series antagonist Riku.

The game lauches on 12th December in Japan, and there's no word on a western release at the moment.

[source polygon.com]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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Tsuchinoko
Wed 5th Dec 2012

@SupaLewigi It does. He's thinking of the word "gaiden".

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ajcismo
Wed 5th Dec 2012

And Japan gets yet another title that will probably never see the light of day outside the Land of the Rising Sun.

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Damo
Wed 5th Dec 2012

@Tsuchinoko @SupaLewigi Well spotted!

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Tsuchinoko
Wed 5th Dec 2012

anytime

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Einherjar
Wed 5th Dec 2012

Arc System is making a River City spin off ? Sweet Then we can hope for some mighty fine sprite work.

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ohhaime
Wed 5th Dec 2012

I hope it makes it to NA, I'll buy this in a heart beat.

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Bass_X0
Wed 5th Dec 2012

Its interesting how much Japanese we pick up due to videogames.

I'm sure many old-school gamers know what 'Seiken Densetsu" means in engish.

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Tasuki
Wed 5th Dec 2012

Oh I hope this makes its way to NA. RCR is one of my favorite NES games along with the others in the series (Super Dodge Ball, Nintendo World Cup, Crash N the Boys). I was disappointed when I heard the Wiiware version was cancelled. Make this happen please.

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Azikira
Wed 5th Dec 2012

River City Ransom was one of my favorite old school games. I NEED this in my life. Q_Q

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SparkOfSpirit
Wed 5th Dec 2012

It's not a sports game so we won't get it. Unfortunately.

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MeloMan
Wed 5th Dec 2012

Well, any RCR news is good news, I guess. Now for some westside love...

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Onion
Thu 6th Dec 2012

"Densetsu", like most japanese words, has a variety of different meanings but the most commonly used is "Legend".

Not to be a downer, but the chances of this coming to the States (or Europe) aren't good. Looking at the previous Kunio-Kun and Nekketsu series track records, most of these games usually end up staying in Japan.