Natsume Is Bringing River City: Tokyo Rumble To North America This Year

I hope the classic white T-shirt and jeans look for Kunio/Alex is unlockable.

Yeah! I'm enjoying River city Ransom so much, so this makes me really happy.

Thank you, Natsume!!
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I hope for a European release. Although unlikely
Maybe on the eshop. But i'm a demander for physical products.

@A01 I sometimes wonder if Europe exists to some of these developers. Often hear of NA getting games but no mention of Europe.

Having imported the Japanese original, I will not weep if it doesn't come to Europe, but if it will, I'm buying it.

YES!

Yeah, from what I've seen, this looks pretty cool. The more "photo-realistic" backgrounds look a bit strange to me, although still kinda neat, but if the gameplay holds up it could be a really fun beat 'em up on 3DS.

Probably it will skip Europe to nobody surprise.

Anyway, what happened to that River City Ransom kickstarter game?

Wow I'm pretty shocked that were getting it. Although ppl don't always say the nicest things about them, Natsume has always been good to me, and were one of the few companies that would send me bi monthly newsletters about upcoming games, after filling out NES gamepak warranties. Of course this was around 1990, but its funny that the Capcoms, and Konami's couldn't be bothered, with all of their success at the time. But the Jaleco's, Culture Brains, and Vic Tokai's of this world valued their customers a pinch more it seemed. And that I cannot forget.

The Kunio series are so confusing on 3DS. There are six (!) of them. For the benefit of anyone else struggling to follow, this game is not the "River City Ransom SP" that Nintendo Life has been covering lately. Instead, this is a game that saw Japanese release way back in 2013. Maybe we can hope to see more of the series making it west now that the license has changed hands?

I loved the classic original when it was on the NES....but I was probably like 8. I downloaded it on the VC for the Wii and I still had fun but I did notice that it wasn't as deep as I remembered it. I don't know anything about this game though. I'm hoping it's a deep fighting RPG!

YES YES YES YES!

I saw the video a month or two ago and was MAD STOKED!!! I'm SO getting this!!!

Best news I got yesterday! I immediately followed up this and asked Natsume for plans in Europe, they got back to me over twitter with a very posisitve "Stay tuned!".

@MrPuzzlez Please note this is not the upcoming Kunio game comming out soon in Japan, its the one released back in 2013 which is also stellar.

Nice, I was hoping that this game would come here. Another 3DS game to add to the list.

@Shiryu Oh, okay, cool! I loved the music to that game!

This is getting a physical release in the US, correct? I only buy physical copies and side-scrolling beat em ups is one of my favorite genres. Excellent. Exxxxxcellent

Fairly sure it'll come over to Europe, they brought over A-Train, gotcha racing and tank hero which were all new/unknown IP.
I think it's a safe bet they'll bring over a known IP like this.

This will have a dodgeball mode. Remember Super Dodge Ball Brawlers DS?

This is fantastic news! Also, check out Swords & Darkness which is similar and also by Arc System Works. It didn't get great reviews from critics, but I loved it and couldn't stop playing it for a couple of days. It's a simple River City Ransom game with a medieval setting. If you go in expecting that, you won't be disappointed. It can be purchased on eShop for pretty cheap.

Will it have like an Online Co Op? I remember the original had awesome multiplayer on NES.