{"id":478,"date":"2015-07-19T03:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/stories\/?p=478"},"modified":"2022-07-17T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T22:34:11","slug":"shiritsu-justice-gakuen-nekketsu-seisyun-nikki-2-2q2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2015\/07\/19\/shiritsu-justice-gakuen-nekketsu-seisyun-nikki-2-2q2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiritsu Justice Gakuen: Nekketsu Seisyun Nikki 2 \u2014 2Q2015<\/span> issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rival Schools 1.5 is still fun<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We here at GI<\/span> are strong pro\u00adpo\u00adnents of any\u00adthing Japan\u00adese, fight\u00ading games and edu\u00adca\u00adtion. So, you can imag\u00adine the delight that is a gen\u00ader\u00adous mix of all three. To that end, it should be obvi\u00adous by now that we love Rival Schools and its over\u00adall series Project Jus\u00adtice. Despite the fact that it comes from the brain trust known as Cap\u00adcom, we\u2019re still entranced by the con\u00adcept of Japan\u00adese high school stu\u00addents fight\u00ading to save themselves.<\/p>\n

The mid\u00addle game in the series, Rival Schools 2, is an inter\u00adest\u00ading addi\u00adtion to the fam\u00adi\u00adly of fight\u00ading games. It\u2019s nei\u00adther a true sequel nor a spin-off of the orig\u00adi\u00adnal game. It\u2019s an adden\u00addum, which Cap\u00adcom is noto\u00adri\u00adous for push\u00ading on the gen\u00ader\u00adal buy\u00ading pub\u00adlic. It\u2019s more of the orig\u00adi\u00adnal game \u2014 which we love \u2014 with some upgrades thrown in to make it worth import\u00ading. This ver\u00adsion was nev\u00ader released in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, thus there are modes that you will nev\u00ader see. That makes import\u00ading the game worth the time and trouble.<\/p>\n

RS2<\/span> is your stan\u00addard fight\u00ading game, which does\u00adn\u2019t make it unique. How\u00adev\u00ader, the inclu\u00adsion of the board game mode and the char\u00adac\u00adter cre\u00adation mode that plays out like an eroge sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion are some of the good\u00adies that we\u2019re miss\u00ading out on in the U.S. There\u2019s also the addi\u00adtion of three new char\u00adac\u00adters: Ran, a pho\u00adto\u00adjour\u00adnal\u00adist who uses her cam\u00adera to attack; Nagare, a swim\u00admer; and, Chairperson\/Iinciyo, who leads the charge for Taiyo High School stu\u00addents to defend them\u00adselves. Oth\u00ader than these gifts, there\u2019s not much dif\u00adfer\u00adent here than the first game. You\u2019re still fight\u00ading to defend your cho\u00adsen school, and there\u2019s still fun to be had in a slight\u00adly deep fight\u00ading game sys\u00adtem. There\u2019s not too much dif\u00adfer\u00adent aes\u00adthet\u00adics-wise, in that there are a few new stages and new stage themes. The old\u00ader stages are still here and it\u2019s fun to play against the new\u00adcom\u00aders with old\u00ader char\u00adac\u00adters or a cre\u00adat\u00aded character.<\/p>\n

I have two caveats with rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00ading the game to oth\u00aders. The first is the fact that it\u2019s in Japan\u00adese most\u00adly and read\u00ading is a must to get through the char\u00adac\u00adter cre\u00adation and board game modes. That\u2019s a bit much if you\u2019re not into the lan\u00adguage or know enough to nav\u00adi\u00adgate through menus. The oth\u00ader issue is the fact that, as usu\u00adal, Cap\u00adcom has seen fit to deny Amer\u00adi\u00adcan gamers the best of a series, short\u00adchang\u00ading loy\u00adal mon\u00adey-spend\u00ading fans who would pay a high price for the good\u00adies of the char\u00adac\u00adter cre\u00adation mode and the board game mode. The dirty truth of it all is Cap\u00adcom has nev\u00ader thought high\u00adly of its Amer\u00adi\u00adcan audi\u00adence. We\u2019re not going to see some\u00adthing awe\u00adsome like either mode because \u201cwe just would\u00adn\u2019t get it any\u00adway.\u201d A fun fact is that both modes were to be includ\u00aded in the first game but were left out in Amer\u00adi\u00adca because it would have been too much trou\u00adble to include them for Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, accord\u00ading to Cap\u00adcom of Japan. But we\u2019re smart enough to make cash grabs off of for mul\u00adti\u00adple ver\u00adsion of Street Fight\u00ader, though, right?<\/p>\n

The moral of this sto\u00adry is that Rival Schools and its fur\u00adther sequels all deserve to be played by a wider audi\u00adence. Although it\u2019s a slight rehash of the first game, RS2<\/span> was deserv\u00ading of respect and a prop\u00ader intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan audi\u00adence. Thank\u00adful\u00adly, we were allowed to see the next sequel, Project Jus\u00adtice. Here\u2019s hop\u00ading for a class reunion.<\/p>\n