History VideoGame / RiverCityGirls2

* TimedMission: Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:Sabuko kidnaps and strapped bombs to various characters she assumed were friends of Kyoko and Misako and the heroes have 20 minutes to scour the city and save them all. Thankfully they don't have to hoof it on foot and the hostages are all located within close vicinity to the bus stops]].

On April 25, 2024, it was announced that DownloadableContent is in the works, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2xF-vkV1q0 featuring Billy and Jimmy Lee]] as additional characters.

* BadassInDistress: Provie's friend Chris, who in ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansomUnderground'' was the leader of the gang/group she was a member of, has gone missing, and Provie suspects that Ken and his goons are behind it. [[spoiler:Considering that Chris was able to bust herself out in ''Underground'', it's little surprise that her ''River City Girls'' counterpart also winds up being a DamselOutOfDistress, as she can be recruited in Crosstown as an AssistCharacter ''immediately'' after getting Provie.]]

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: [[spoiler: Marian]]'s brainwashing is undone by punching them. Really hard. Repeatedly.

* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Waterfall in the Flatiron Camp. Although this one is tricky because there are invisble platforms and it's hard to see yourself. [[spoiler: Go all the way to the right. Go down. Go left until you can't go left anymore. You should be able to jump and tap up to get on a ledge. From there, jump to the right. You should be on a higher ledge. Then do a running jump to the left. You should be on a higher ledge. Hold down X to enter the cave.]]

** The game itself has a non-stop 4th wall breaking meta over the top tone that rivals [[Creator/WayForwardTechnologies WayForward's]] own ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'' with events like a [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime BMO parody]] being used as an EMP and to fight enemies, killer cat robots, seemingly serious song lyrics that talk about "getting off my lawn", gravestones that all have inappropriate or pun filled epitaphs, combo titles that read less like actual combo titles and more like injokes eg. 69 gets you [[Lol69 NICE]], higher counts like 1000 have the game question your sanity for doing this, 2 of the characters you save in a [[spoiler:bomb defusal mission]] are joked about as being really unimportant to the story, a shopkeeper is a talking dog that speaks in bow wow and woofs in a human voice, and it all starts as early as the title song joking about how well the first game sold and how its the long awaited sequel.

* SkewedPriorities: Kyoko and Misako want to save the town not just to stop Sabu, but mostly because they wanted to buy ''Vampire Puncher 2'' by going to the mall; they only get dragged into further fights because the emblem carriers do something to mess with them before they can go home. Misako in particular is somewhat annoyed that they have to save the city again.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6yI3twLhU Get Off My Lawn]]" is sung by Blaire the Witch and heard during the Witchy Woods as well as various other areas of Flatirons. It's ''literally'' about getting off of their lawn; they doesn't like visitors much, and hexed the Witchy Woods to make sure people stayed away.

** Henchmen that you've unlocked can be recruited from hideouts, rather than having to hunt them down, then beat them and hope they're begging. Hired Henchmen however need to be found in the world and paid every time they get rehired.

*** A piece of graffiti says "Bimmy was here" a reference to the memetically mispelled "Bimmy Lee" from the NES Double Dragon III.

** There's a [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 creepy cabin in the woods with a basement]] that leads to the graveyard. You also [[VideoGame/Splatterhouse fight the furniture at one point.]]

** Some graffiti in the zoo reads "[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Flameo Hotman]]".

* UnnamedParent: Kyoko's Mom is never given any other name to the point that her name on Honkr is simply "Kyoko's Mom @REDmomma".

** The Donut Queen shop is based on a nickname of Misako's voice actor Creator/KayliMills which they even [[https://twitter.com/KayliMills/status/1605365889687175168 pointed out on Twitter]]

''You're not welcome in this world!''

''By the River City Girls!''
->''Kyoko: "Two!"''
->''Misako: "No, you don't say the 'two' part."''

--> '''Misako (amused)''': "I mean, you can ''try.''"
--> '''Kyoko''': "But that usually doesn't usually work out too well for people."

** Yamada from ''River City Girls'' appears as a mini-opponent at Ocean Hights, and after he's beaten, Misuzu (in a referee outfit) falls on top of him.

* ElevatorActionSequence: Like many Beat'em Ups, this game has a fight in an elevator; ''unlike'' many Beat'em Ups, the logic of this is [[FridgeLogic deeply questioned by Misako and Kyoko]], who both point out that simply waiting at the top and attacking all at once, instead of leaping down in waves, would be more difficult and stand a better chance of defeating them, as well as being safer for the attackers. Also unlike most Beat'em Ups, while you can break the glass windows of the elevator, you can't actually throw anyone out of it- they hit invisible walls first.
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Unlike the first game, River City here (owing to its Denser and Wackier nature above) has a ton of environmental hazards that can harm you, and your opponents. Ranging from getting run over by passing cars, blowing up explosive barrels, getting launched by steam (or by breaking a fire hydrant), getting slammed by doors, etc. The bully using a spitball serve as a first clue to this presence, since while he can be scared and stopped temporarily, he can't actually be made to quit attacking permanently- he's a stage hazard, not an enemy.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: A [[BarbaricBully bald, musclebound bully]] (who resembles Heilman from ''Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club'') who uses a spitball cannot be taken out, only stunned. Likewise Ken's bodyguards, unlike Noize's cadre of fans from the first game, can be briefly incapacitated but not taken out.

** One segment at Flatirons has the player fight near a ferris wheel, identical to an area in ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirlsZero''.

* UnnamedParent: Kyoko's Mom is never given any other name to the point that her name on social media is simply "Kyoko's Mom".

->''It's time for you to leave, oh,''
->''You're not welcome in this world!''
->''Pack your bags, you're getting evicted (Bye-bye!)''
->''By the River City Girls!''

** The Donut Queen shop is based on a nickname of Misako's voice actor [[Creator/KayliMills Kayli Mills]] which they even [[https://twitter.com/KayliMills/status/1605365889687175168 pointed out on Twitter]]