This game is fucking awesome. Criminally underrated, Capcom's actual first 3D 1 on 1Fighter is an absolute trip.
Every school has 3 characters to play as (on average) representing a different archetype, and playstyle, and it allows the team to get incredibly creative with their character archetypes.
For example, the Sports cool features a baseball player, football player, and a volleyball player. All three of them play completely differently from eachother, and are all fighting game-ified versions of their respective sports.
You can also fight as delinquents, bikers, boxers, and a lot more. The depth of gameplay with the different supers you can chain together with your teammate is also fairly impressive.
That's without even going into the expansive story mode. It's crazy, every single character combination has a different variation of the story, including boss characters (which I should mention, is quite a lot with the massive roster, and the fact that you form a team of 2 out of the 3 characters from each school)
And that's just the content you get from the arcade mode!
There's also illustrations, mini games, and if you can read japanese, the entire fully fledged school life simulator mode included in the Playstation release. That's hours and hours of content for just this game. The amount of content packed here is staggering, and just makes me sad that nobody really knows about Rival Schools, even with Akira appearing in SFV. If you like fighting games, play Rival Schools, you won't regret it.
Every school has 3 characters to play as (on average) representing a different archetype, and playstyle, and it allows the team to get incredibly creative with their character archetypes.
For example, the Sports cool features a baseball player, football player, and a volleyball player. All three of them play completely differently from eachother, and are all fighting game-ified versions of their respective sports.
You can also fight as delinquents, bikers, boxers, and a lot more. The depth of gameplay with the different supers you can chain together with your teammate is also fairly impressive.
That's without even going into the expansive story mode. It's crazy, every single character combination has a different variation of the story, including boss characters (which I should mention, is quite a lot with the massive roster, and the fact that you form a team of 2 out of the 3 characters from each school)
And that's just the content you get from the arcade mode!
There's also illustrations, mini games, and if you can read japanese, the entire fully fledged school life simulator mode included in the Playstation release. That's hours and hours of content for just this game. The amount of content packed here is staggering, and just makes me sad that nobody really knows about Rival Schools, even with Akira appearing in SFV. If you like fighting games, play Rival Schools, you won't regret it.