River City Ransom: Underground: Difference between revisions

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** The combat system takes a lot of cues from the GBA remake of the original as opposed to the original NES version.

** Merv's Burger still has the smile option like the original game as "Free", though [[Tearjerker|there seems to be some sadness behind the smile]].

** A lot of areas greatly resemble the original areas they were derived from that were taken from the original game.

* [[Clear My Name]]: One of your main reasons for trying to stay alive.

* [[Crawl]] One will show up at the bottom of the screen referencing what you did that just raised the ire of the cops.

* [[Crutch Character]]: Alex and Ryan serve as this in an assist role up until the first boss is defeated, then they get a demotion to Level 1 when they become playable.

* [[Donut Mess with a Cop]]: The cops will show up if you start wanton vandalism of public property, stealing money from change machines, or beating up innocents. Attacking them also only makes them more mad, so you either have to duck into a hideout or a nearby trash bin until the police badge icon go away.

* [[Embedded Precursor]]: The tutorial level is a condensed version of the final battles of the original, with Slick as the boss once again, although it is possible to lose the tutorial, forcing you to start it all over again. This also doubles as the backstory.

* [[Funny Afro]]: Ryan's hair in modern day sports a hilarious looking pompadour.

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* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: You can be one if you adopt a cat. In fact, you can adopt five of them.

* [[Money Spider]]: Unlike the original game, where every enemy dropped the same looking coin (while the amount could vary), this time they drop various coins and bills on defeat.

* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: Bizarrely, even though cops do show up, none of them have guns, though it would not be unrealistic for them to have them given the setting.

* [[Nostalgia Level]]: The tutorial, which plays exactly like the original RCR game did. The only thing missing is the "[[Double Dragon]]' theme for the Dragon Twins, but the developers likely couldn't secure the rights to it, since they only got permission to officially remake the game itself, while the theme could be used in the original because Technos produced both game series.

* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Yes and no. You can hit some things like parking meters and soda machines for free goodies, but it will get the cops mad and they will chase you around until you lose them.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The gangs all have themey names like the original.

** The Warlocks all have names either cribbed from fictional demons or occult literature.

** The Nerds all look like stereotypical nerds and throw either exploding beakers, or those that freeze you if they hit.

** The Nerds all look like stereotypical nerds and throw either exploding beakers, beakers with acid, or those that freeze you if they hit.

** The Luchas are a gang of luchadors.

** The cops (who counts as a gang for gameplay purposes), all bear names you'd typically expect cops to have like "Ramirez" and "[[Robocop|Murphy]]". They also attack with tasers.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Inverted. Alex has orange hair like his Japanese version did in the Kunio-kun games after the prologue because the game lacks the NES color limitations. The prologue is supposed to emulate the original NES experience, so it remains black then.