History VideoGame / RiverCityGirls2

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

* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[spoiler:Exaggerated; After Sabu is defeated, he's punched by the entire gang up from the basement, through all the floors of Sanwakai Tower, and crashes into the helicopter Ken and Sabuko are flying in, sending them all into the sky]].

* BagOfSpilling: The justification for the girls getting reset to level one is that they spent two whole months doing nothing but playing video games and only decided to leave the house to buy a new game.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Sabu Family are now hell-bent on revenge against the girls for humiliating them in the previous game. [[spoiler: There's a lot of friction there, though- Sabuko in particular is working against them due to their dismissal... Or to be more specific, she's trying to sabotage Ken to worm her way back into her father's favor]].

* GuideDangIt: The Side-Missions have no indicators on the map showing where they are, so you'll be running around to each area to find wherever the objective is. One particular example is Godai's selfies; two of the required selfies only appear during ether the day or night, which the game does not hint about, much less that there is an actual in-game time system.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler:Provie has a boss fight with Misako and Kyoko because she thought the two were with the Yakuza.]]

* NoFourthWall: Compared to last time doing it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall sparingly]] and making the DenserAndWackier nature of the sequel more apparent, Misako and Kyoko are 100% aware they are in a game constantly pointing out exp, boss fights, them complaining about having to do every annoying side mission (with the game [[spoiler:having the boss of Technos, Tsuiko]] call you out if you finished that particular mission) the credits song [[spoiler:addresses the player and snarks at them]] the UI glitching up at one point on purpose with it being pointed out, and in the opening sequence Misako gets annoyed that Kyoko sung ''River City Girls 2'' instead of ''River City Girls'' and is more annoyed that was actually in the script.

* SidelinedProtagonistCrossover: Billy and Jimmy have been passed over for Marian as the sole playable character to represent the ''Double Dragon'' series. This is explained by Marian's decision to become a powerful fighter that's no longer helpless, so there's no real need for the Double Dragons to be involved.
* 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. Misako in particular is somewhat annoyed that they have to save the city.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Ken expels them from River City High, Misako and Kyoko spend the next two months doing nothing but playing video games, causing them to [[BagOfSpilling lose all of their XP from the first game]] due to letting their fighting skills atrophy. Both of them comment on how rusty they’ve gotten in the interim.

* {{Unishment}}: Ken's first act after taking over River City High was to expel Misako and Kyoko. Since the two weren't exactly star students they took it as an excuse to play video games for two whole months until they decided to go buy another one. Kyoko's case is even more notable as she ''doesn't even attend the school''.

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

* HeartsAreHealth: During the [[https://youtu.be/DMxzG-z_qDw?t=42 door opening in the Launch Trailer]], a "HP HERE!" sticker is seen, also having a white HeartSymbol on a red background.

* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Sabuko and Ken are in a chopper over Sanwakai Tower and decide to repair their relationship as siblings. As they're wondering what's taking their dad so long, Sabu blasts through the rooftop and collides into them, sending them all twinkling into the sky]].

->''Where are all the parents during such violent escapades?''
->''(Where were they?)''
->''Who gives brass knuckles to a teen girl anyway?''
->''(Yeah, who does that?)''

* NoFourthWall: Compared to last time doing it [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall sparingly]] and making the DenserAndWackier nature of the sequel more apparent, Misako and Kyoko are 100% aware they are in a game constantly pointing out exp, boss fights, them complaining about having to do every annoying side mission (with the game [[spoiler:having the boss of Technos, Tsuiko]] call you out if you finished that particular mission) the credits song [[spoiler:addresses the player and snarks at them]] the UI glitching up at one point on purpose with it being pointed out, and in the open sequence Misako gets annoyed that Kyoko sung ''River City Girls 2'' instead of ''River City Girls'' and is more annoyed that was actually in the script.

* GuideDangIt: The Side-Missions have no indicators on the map showing where they are, so you'll be running around to each area to find wherever the objective is. One particular example is Godai's selfies; only one of the required selfies appears at night, which the game does not hint about.

** 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, 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.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Parked automobiles get this treatment (ala ''Shredder's Revenge'') as the steering wheel's position is flipped depending on the position the vehicle is facing.

* TheBusCameBack: Provie, one of the new playable characters, had only one other appearance in ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansomUnderground'', which was released 5 years prior to this game. Provie's intro trailer reveals that she's looking for her friend Chris, another character previously only in ''Underground''.

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

** Two of the robot enemies as named [[Creator/KayliMills K4Y-LI]] and [[Creator/KiraBuckland K1R-A]] after the voice actors for Misako and Kyoko respectively

* ExtremityExtremist: New characters Marin and Provie. Marin solely relies on punches and grapples for all of her attacks, while Provie is a [[DanceBattler Dance Battling]] KickChick who hardly ever uses her fists.

* ExremityExtremist: New characters Marin and Provie. Marin solely relies on punches and grapples for all of her attacks, while Provie is a [[DanceBattler Dance Battling]] KickChick who hardly ever uses her fists.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Sabu Family are now hell-bent on revenge against the girls for humiliating them in the previous game. [[spoiler: There's a lot of friction there, though- Sabuko in particular is working against them due to their dismissal... Or to be more specific, she's trying to sabotage Ken to worm her way back into her father's favor.]]

* InvincibleMinorMinion: A [[BarbaricBully bald, musclebound bully]] (who resembles Heilman from ''Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club'') who uses a spitball cannot be attacked at all. Likewise Ken's bodyguards, unlike Noize's cadre of fans from the first game, are completely invulnerable to the player's attacks.

* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Waterfall in the Flatiron Camp. Although this one is trick 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.]]

* {{Unishment}}: Ken's first act after taking over River City High was to expel Misako and Kyoko. Since the two weren't exactly star students they took it as an excuse to play video games for two whole months until they decided to go buy another one.
** And just like she had previously stated in the first River City Girls, Kyoko ''doesn't even attend the school.''

* StaticRoleExchangeableCharacter: Although the cutscenes are clearly written with Misako and Kyoko in mind, if you're playing as another character, that character replaces one of them and says the same lines Misako or Kyoko would be saying, regardless of how little sense this makes. In single-player, you can even choose who replaces the other character from the settings menu.

* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[spoiler:After Sabu is defeated, he crashes into the helicopter Ken and Sabuko are in, sending them all into the sky]].

* AdrenalineMakeover: Marian eventually decided she had enough of sitting on the sidelines as a DamselInDistress and got into serious training. Instead of the curvy girl she was in ''Double Dragon'', she's now an AmazonianBeauty with self-described "legendary abs" capable of brawling alongside the other cast members.

* BadassBoast: Kyoko makes an ''extremely'' casual and off-hand one towards Ken before his boss fight, when he threatens to kill the girls.
--> " That doesn't usually work out for people."

->''Pack your bags, you're getting evicted''

->''"It's time to take matters back into my own hands."''
-->-- '''[[VillainNoLongerIdle Sabu]]'''

* InvincibleMinorMinion:
** A [[BarbaricBully bald, musclebound bully]] (who resembles Heilman from ''Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club'') who uses a spitball cannot be attacked at all. Likewise, Ken's bodyguards are completely invulnerable.

* {{Xenafication}}: Marian talks about her DistressedDamsel status in [[Franchise/DoubleDragon her home series]] and her decision to become a AmazonianBeauty and "save herself".