Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl

I remember seeing screenshots of that a year ago. I always assumed they were fake.
 
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The AVGN game was actually kinda good, this looks kinda crap.
 
Verge said:
The AVGN game was actually kinda good, this looks kinda crap.
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yeah like a nes beat-em-up. its getting decent reviews, except for the auto-scroll level which is reminding people of the battle toads turbo tunnel...
 
Say what you want about the nostalgia peddling here, Kevin Smith and friends known their audience ;)
 
Kinsaras said:
I guess no one played one of the best NES games called River City Ransom? Not that I want to play this Kevin Smith version.

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This is exactly what I thought of when I first saw the video, "They just reskinned River City".

Also, I acquired a hacked rom of this game once called "Pussy City Pimps" when you hit the other npc's money would fall out. Gave me a chuckle.
 
Kinsaras said:
I guess no one played one of the best NES games called River City Ransom? Not that I want to play this Kevin Smith version.

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I mean, it says this right on the website for the Mall Brawl game:

Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl features 2 player co-op action with an 8-bit aesthetic and gameplay style similar to action brawlers on the (NES), particularly River City Ransom (1989) and Double Dragon II (1988).
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This reminded me to check out the old campaign I remembered from Fig....

It turns out the Mall Brawl is in fact a "mini-game" that's coming as a prelude to "Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch", which is a vastly visually (and perhaps mechanically) advanced brawler. This is pretty cool and seems to echo other crowdfunded projects for instance most famously "Bloodstained: Circle of the Moon", the NES-style old Castlevania side-game-prelude to the main project "Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night" , and how "Dawnthorne" is coming before "Hazelnut Bastille", among others.

More info on both titles - https://www.fig.co/campaigns/jay-and-silent-bob-chronic-blunt-punch/updates/1205

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Oh and regarding beat-em-ups, there are some great ones these days on PC - both revivals of older titles and newer ones. Fun fact, the "River City Ransom" games we know are actually a rather limited localization of the Japanese "Kunio-kun" series; there are a LOT more games out there than the few that officially came to the West - at least until recently. There are some from the 3DS era that are well made (playable via Citra emulator), plus a few that even came to PC natively. Note that the "River City Ransom: Underground" is an excellent and comprehensive beat-em-up, but is NOT part of the mainline series but a totally Western indie interpretation based on the localization of the NES title. On the contrary, recent titles like "Stay Cool, Kobayashi-san: A River City Ransom Story" and "River City Girls" are both part of the mainline JP game universe. All are worth playing if you enjoy beat-em ups!

Retro beat-em ups are also experiencing something of a resurgence in general - lots of good titles, from new entries in classic series to independent titles entirely.
 
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