History VideoGame / RiverCityGirls2

* GuideDangIt: The Side-Mission objectives 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; while the camera icon immediately indicates that one's been found, their locations are usually out of the way in optional areas. Two of the required selfies only appear during either the day or night, which the game does not hint about, or point out that there is an actual in-game time system.
** Collecting the cats for the Cat Cafe. The main hint of being near one is hearing a cat's meows, but most of them are in spots that are too far away to be heard ''at all''. The game also doesn't tell you how many are in each area, only ticking off the objective once you found all of them.

* DarkerAndEdgier: To an extent. While the game is mostly as lighthearted and wacky as the previous game, if not [[DenserAndWackier moreso]], the plot of the game ''is'' about Misako and Kyoto being hunted down by a ruthless mob boss and his seemingly endless army of enforcers. Also worth noting is that, compared to the last game, this game's bosses openly make it clear that, at least from their perspective, the boss fights are to the death (though the girls once again refrain from actually killing any of their foes).

* AssuranceBackfire: In the opening theme song, no less - one of Misako's lines is "We probably won't die!" which Kyoko sounds less than thrilled to hear.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6yI3twLhU Get Off My Lawn]]" is sung by Blaire the Witch's 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.

* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: As seen in [[https://youtu.be/DMxzG-z_qDw?t=24 0:24 of the Launch Trailer]], where Misako nearly dying is referenced, her soul is lit by a white light from above, winged, with light blue shadows, slowing rising up off the screen and descending back down into her body every time Kyoko stomps on Miasko. And referenced in the lines for that part of the song:

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The reason Marian is a boss fight before joining the girls. Blair used her magic to brainwash her and put her under Yakuza control. The girls break the brainwashing by [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim beating Marian up]], which surprises Blair, since she didn't think the spell would be broken that easily.]]

** [[spoiler:After beating her, Blair decides to quit working for the Yakuza and will sell some Accessory items]].

* PaperThinDisguise: ZigZagged. In order to get into Primo's restaurant, the girls decide to disguise themselves as Blair and Tsuiko with the help of Hibari. In the eyes of the players, they simply wear a cowboy hat and moustache (Misako), a pirate hat (Kyoko), a ribbon (Marian), and a crocodile mask (Provie). To the characters and everyone else, they are wearing the real deal (they complain that they can barely breathe through these masks). [[spoiler:This doesn't work on Primo because he knew the two well enough that he knows which is the imposter and a real deal.]]

*** One of the Tarot powers Blair uses in her boss fight is called "The World" and causes your movement to slow considerably for a short time.

* TarotMotifs: Blair attacks occasionally by drawing tarot cards themed after scenes and characters from the two games. The cards themselves become available to look at after her battle in Snapr, once the cards are found in various places within the city.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6yI3twLhU Get Off My Lawn]]" is sung by Blair the Witch's and heard during the Witchy 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.

** Graffitti near the Safehouse in Flatirons says [[Website/SCPFoundation Secure. Contain. Protect.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: ZigZagged. In order to get into Primo's restaurant, the girls decide to disguise themselves as Blair and Tsuiko with the help of Hibari. In the eyes of the players, they simply wear a cowboy hat and moustache (Misako), a pirate hat (Kyoko), a ribbon (Marian) and a crocodile mask. To the characters and everyone else, they are wearing the real deal (they complain that they can barely breathe through these masks). [[spoiler:This doesn't work on Primo because he knew the two well enough that he knows which is the imposter and a real deal.]]

** '''The Boys''': Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel or sending them flying by [[MundaneMadeAwesome aggressively eating hamburgers at them]]. However, he's got nothing on Riki's ''actual superpowers'', like [[KamehameHadoken firing]] a slow-moving EnergyBall or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure summoning a shadowy copy of himself]] that beats the opponent with RapidFireFisticuffs.

** '''The new girls''': Marin has perhaps the most practical fighting style, revolving entirely around pummeling her opponents with [[BoxingBattler haymakers]] and throwing them with [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling moves]]. Provie, in contrast, has perhaps the flashiest, ''least'' practical fighting style that revolves entirely around her [[DanceBattler breakdancing moves]], assaulting her opponents with a dizzying array of [[RoundhouseKick roundhouse kicks]], [[HurricaneKick spinning aerial kicks]], and spinning headstand kicks (Provie [[KickChick really likes her kicks]]), that can be strung together in a "dance routine."

** '''The Boys''': Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel or sending them flying by [[MundaneMadeAwesome aggressively eating hamburgers at them]]. However, he's got nothing on Riki, who has ''actual superpowers'' in this game, like [[KamehameHadoken firing]] a slow-moving EnergyBall or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure summoning a shadowy copy of himself]] that then beats the opponent with RapidFireFisticuffs.

** '''The Boys''': Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel or sending them flying by [[MundaneMadeAwesome aggressively eating hamburgers at them]]. However, he's got nothing on Riki, who has ''actual superpowers'' in this game, like [[KamehameHadoken firing a slow-moving ki blast]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure summoning a shadowy copy of himself]] that then beats the opponent with RapidFireFisticuffs.

** '''The Boys''': Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel or sending them flying by [[MundaneMadeAwesome aggressively eating hamburgers at them]]. However, he's got nothing on Riki, who fights with ''actual superpowers'', like [[KamehameHadoken firing a slow-moving ki blast]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure summoning a shadowy copy of himself]] that then beats the opponent with RapidFireFisticuffs.

** '''The Boys''': Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel or sending them flying by [[MundaneMadeAwesome aggressively eating hamburgers at them]]. However, he's got nothing on Riki, who fights with ''actual superpowers'', like [[KamehameHadoken firing a slow-moving ki blast]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure summoning a shadowing copy of himself]] that then beats the opponent with RapidFireFisticuffs.

** '''The news girls''': Marin has perhaps the most practical fighting style, revolving entirely around pummeling her opponents with [[BoxingBattler haymakers]] and throwing them with [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling moves]]. Provie, in contrast, has perhaps the flashiest, ''least'' practical fighting style that revolves entirely around her [[DanceBattler breakdancing moves]], assaulting her opponents with a dizzying array of [[RoundhouseKick roundhouse kicks]], [[HurricaneKick spinning aerial kicks]], and spinning headstand kicks (Provie [[KickChick really likes her kicks]]), that can be strung together in a "dance routine."

** The main girls: Misako is a street brawler who fights with practical, hard-hitting punches and kicks, plus slinging her heavy backpack around. Kyoko, on the other hand, fights with an eclectic mix of kicks, [[IKnowMaddenKombat volleyball moves, cheerleading flips]] and dance steps.
** The news girls: Marin has perhaps the most practical fighting style, revolving entirely around pummeling her opponents with [[BoxingBattler haymakers]] and throwing them with [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling moves]]. Provie, in contrast, has perhaps the flashiest, ''least'' practical fighting style that revolves entirely around her [[DanceBattler breakdancing moves]], assaulting her opponents with a dizzying array of [[RoundhouseKick roundhouse kicks]], [[HurricaneKick spinning aerial kicks]], and spinning headstand kicks (Provie [[KickChick really likes her kicks]]), that can be strung together in a "dance routine."
** The Boys: Kunio's moves are all based on street fighting, although he can also do things like throw [[TornadoMove tornado punches]] (which can be charged into ''[[ElementalPowers flaming]]'' tornado punches), and some of his attacks are downright goofy, such as whipping his enemies with a towel

** The main girls: Misako is a street brawler who fight with practical, hard-hitting punches and kicks, plus slinging her heavy backpack around. Kyoko, on the other hand, fights with an eclectic mix of kicks, [[IKnowMaddenKombat volleyball moves, cheerleading flips]] and dance steps.
** The news girls: Marin has perhaps the most practical fighting style, revolving entirely around pummeling her opponents with [[BoxingBattler haymakers]] and throwing them with [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling moves]].

* LameComeback: Before the boss fight with Miriam, a yakuza goon tells Misako and Kyoko to knock it off, at which point they threaten to knock him off. He responds with "Yeah? Well... okay" and shuts his mouth.

* NoAdults: Lampshaded in the end credits song:
-->''Where were all the parents during such violent escapades? (Where were they?)''\\
''Who gives brass knuckles to a teen girl anyway? (Yeah, who does that?)''

** Similarly, Mr. K (of [[VideoGame/KunioKun Renegade]], the original English localization of the very first Kunio-kun game) is his own person and not Kunio, and gives an item hunt side-quest.

* GuideDangIt: The Side-Mission objectives 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.

* 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 is actually in the script.

* 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 again.

* TarotMotifs: Blair attacks occasionally by drawing tarot cards themed after scenes and characters from the two games. The cards themselves become available to look at after her battle in Snapr.

* {{Unishment}}: Ken's first act after taking over River City High is to expel Misako and Kyoko on false pretenses. Since the two aren't exactly star students, they take it as an excuse to play video games for two whole months until they decide 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=oZJ_cH1_OOQ Your Like]]" is from Tsuiko's point of view, describing her general views on life- she doesn't stand in the way of progress, and is big on social media, but despite having a job focused on human connection, she's almost inhuman in her distance from others and focus on relentless technological advancement and information control. It's telling that the first line is "forgive the impression of caring."