River City Saga: Three Kingdoms

released on Jul 20, 2022

In River City Saga: Three Kingdoms, the characters of the Kunio-kun series run-amok in the world of Sangokushi. The game, which follows the flow of the popular Downtown Special Kunio-kun's Historical Period Drama!, sees players cross countries and challenge the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.


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I was surprised to see this was a newer title considering it feels far more retro compared to RCG, the gameplay is pretty fun but the way difficulty settings work in this game leaves the first playthrough extremely easy.

Story wise it's fun seeing characters I knew from RCG interact in such a different setting but beyond that I wouldn't say there's much to it, and there's quite a lot of dialogue for a game with no voice acting, plus the obligatory side quests in some of the later chapters definitely felt like padding, side quests which I feel were only interesting in the last chapter. (And still probably only like half at most).

Ironically I think the bonus mode China Heroes is more fun than the actual base-game due to the variety of characters it allows you to play as, a lot of which have their own unique gimicks, would have taken that in the main game over just Kunio even if it would mean simplifying his moveset.

Ost was pretty good though at times felt rather repetitive, not sure how many tracks there are but it didn't feel like a lot.