Take any of my ratings of non-Smash fighting games with a grain of salt, as they're usually based off a single run or two through the arcade ladder and general surface impressions.

Cute! I see this and Street Fighter EX as being cut from the same cloth, but Rival School succeeds where SF EX does not because it's more distinctly its own thing rather than trying to compromise SF's 2D systems in early 3D. Rival Schools meanwhile gets to have out-there stuff like tag-team fights, and assists, and all these weirdo high-schoolers and teachers duking it out. There's a nice rhythm as a novice to figuring out the best point in a match-up to pull out the assist, and who to do it as.

What on earth is going on with the Americans in this game.