Rival Schools - Thorgi's Fighting Game Retrospectives 

I mean, have you seen 2020? I think we're all aware of this by now.

The idea behind the creators of Skullgirls being behind a new Darkstalkers game seems like a no-brainer and instant $$$money!!! I would vote for that to be a go!

I had this exact thought.

its not street fighter or RE so of course it was going to be a no. i mean if there's one thing that we learned is that capcom fears two things....risk, and money, and if there is a possibility that a game might make more money than their dying cash cow, then that will always be a hard NO for them

Bruh that's so sad. Considering skull girls is good at animating every character as well as Darkstalkers did, it would've been an instant match in heaven

Literally capcom I a nutshell

Blame Ono for that.

That is so realistic. They don’t care about the good things but are too busy doing street fighter releases although the stuff they have locked in their vault is awesome. I even made an OC for rival schools (and street fighter due to them being in the same universe) named Alex Jones. He is a student at pacific high and is the number one fan of Ibiki. He attended the school whilst Roy (who was a member of pacific HS himself) was president of the US. He uses a mixture of judo and karate (along with some aura manipulation put in there) and only fights to protect his friends and loved ones ( just like Goman but without the religious side). He is a kind and compassionate kid who is really eager to learn more about Japanese culture (unlike Roy when he went to high school).

@@kingofgurkeyturkeys6477 I had to double take when I saw "Alex Jones" as your OC's name, before realizing it wasn't THAT Alex Jones. Otherwise, good idea for a character!

@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 I also thought of the name Hunter Smith. Is that cool?

Bloody roar was a good rental but lacked depth

@@abramlittle7102 True

Bloody roar is barebones af like most capcom games today but was ahead of it’s me for a 3D fighter.

JoJo Bizarre Adventure PS1 is, IMO, the most underrated FG of all time. Rival Schools is a close runner up for sure

Bloody Roar, Rival Schools and Power Stone are amazing!

*Standing ovation*

*cough cough* Tekken series *cough cough*

And Sakura's bios in some of the games mention her connection to the Rival schools series. Hell a couple of Rival schools characters pop up in the background of one of 5's stages. So it is the same universe.

Actually, they're not in alternate universes. In recent Udon Studios/Street Fighter comics, the Rival School Kids show up in the comics a lot and Sakura, of Street Fighter fame, goes to school with her fellow Rival Schools characters. They actually help Sakura rescue the lame Dan Hibiki Character from getting totally destroyed in a Slam Masters wrestling pay-per-view!

@@cornbreadthedog lol. I was making fun of the statement Capcom made about the two franchises being connected back in the 90s now that Akira is in sfv now

They were; Sakura was put into RS on Playstation mainly to help the game sell more copies. The fact that Sakura is in a completely different high school than everyone else proves this. Arika did this with SFEX on PSX too, slapped Sakura in to make the game sell more. Sakura was a highly popular character from at least '96-'98. Even one of the characters in RS has Street Fighter as their favorite arcade game. Capcom didn't expressly connect the two series until SFV

@@cornbreadthedog Udon comics aren't necessarily canon though.

Same!

Ditto

NO....... jk..........lol

YES!

There's already one out that goes inti way more depth than this guy would. Mostly cause ita like an hour long with extra videos to go with it. So if you cant wait you should check that out

I wish more people talked about Warzard.

@@crapstirrer No one really plays it (maybe they do now idk). But it has some novelty, being a fighting game and an rpg combined.

Rival Schools, Power Stone and Darkstalkers.

Well doubt it but at least expect rs characters are going to sf.

@@RoyalHustler09 Yes, but why stop at capcom?!: The Last Blade, Bloody Roar, Primal Rage, and Melty Blood?

Capcom says no but I am hoping too man

Give it another decade they'll give it to us one day

I think it would look more like a refined Rival School 2 on Dreamcast. Sounds exciting

I keep hoping both series come back. Maybe Capcom will be nice one day and actually surprise us all ?

Concerning Bloody Roar the worst entry in the series BR4 has as a mode this customization mode where you select a character on the roster and go around winning various fights to get DNA points in order to unlock new moves and abilities for your customizable character and before you say BR4 has a CaZ mode a Create-A-Zoanthrope Mode nope BR4 does not have a Character Creation Mode the customizable character is a established character on the roster, and to pour even more salt on the wound this mode is the only way to unlock Long, Shina, Uranus, Khoryu, and Dragon Ryoho as playable characters and they each cost a ridiculously high number of DNA Points to unlock with Long, Shina, Uranus, Khoryu costing around 500,000 DNA Points to unlock as playable characters, and Dragon Ryoho costing around 1,000,000,000 DNA Points to unlock as a playable character, now if it was just Uranus, Khoryu, and Dragon Ryoho being the only unlockable characters this wouldn't be so bad as ever since BR3 Khoryu, and Uranus have been unlockable characters, and Dragon Ryoho is BR4's final boss it makes since that he's a unlockable character that takes a lot of effort to unlock, but to cut Long, and Shina two fan-favorite protagonists who have been series mainstays since the first 2 games from the base roster only to make them unlockable by earning and spending 500,000 DNA Points in what should've been a fully-fleshed out Character Creation Mode is BS on every level.

@@derrickhaggard ...and nowadays instead of costing you an inordinate amount of time, it will cost you an inordinate amount of money in the form of a season pass (and given Bloody Roar's current rights holders, it's most like Disc Locked Content.)

I think he meant angry delinquents as fighting game protagonists that weren’t based off preexisting stuff.

@@lightyearpig12 probably, still the similarities between Botsu and Jotaro now that I think about it is uncanny. Both are strong delinquents who befriend a redhead dude while on the journey to find out who hurt their mother, and find out they're insane men who are brainwashing people to try and take over the world.

And Rose on Lisa Lisa

I don’t think one other character with the same archetype is enough for that archetype to be considered common

@@StickBreightley Delinquents that are really mean on the outside but do good are all over the place of a stereotype in japan.

>High school delinquents were not that common for protagonists in the 90s Kyo Kusanagi: - Am I a joke to you? Also, KOF came with the regular people fighting before Rival Schools by half a decade.

@@Fusso rival schools has a much bigger emphasis on it than KoF, but I see what you’re talking about

@@Fusso they kinda weren't. You had Yusuke from YYH, Kyo, and Batsu. Most FG protags were stoic karate masters

@@allcapcomeverything3866 Yusuke isn't from a fighting game though.

@@UnifiedEntity true, although anime/manga characters like him were the basis for characters like Kyo

Like this to bump it!

The latter is still around, but the former closed down years ago.

Hinata and Sakura were definitely my favorite combo when I was playing in arcades and at home. Sakura is my go-to whenever she's in a fighting game really.

Some of the music from it is pretty damn good, too. The Rooftop theme is awesome, sounds like something depicting a small town, like the one I live in. The Gorin Gym and Taiyou classroom themes from the original were beyond great.

I wish capcom would do a remaster version for project Justice..

@@okami9484 If I had the cash, I finance a Rival Schools combo pack...Call it the Back to School Pack. With all the mini-games and other modes, the Honor Student Package.

@@genericnamehere7602 the mini games for character creation was the best.. makes me want to buy a dreamcast and spend the money on Ebay to buy the game again..

@@okami9484 Same Here. I have been waiting for years

and there was a rival school comic, but it lasted 2 issues and it was unfinished

Udon comics aren't tied to the games. Not canon.

@@TrollAppears2nd The new one will be canon, it was stated by Capcom.

@@Ciretwo Let me reiterate, AMERICAN comics aren't canon to the Japanese FG.

And the fact that he softened in the sequel showing growth is even more awesome.

I started watching these video and he always stops and makes a fuzz about "problematic" stuff and it's always the most milquetoast shit ever. It's characters being xenophobic like in this case which is actually shown to be the wrong mentality to have and the character grows out of it.

Correct as Strider is the future. Zeku is the first Strider... unofficially. And I teared up with the Akira reveal.

Well if only the characters fought without using their personas.

@@aegisreflector1239 so then, Persona 4 Arena.

they use their personas in p4a. that's like one of the main reasons the game's so unique.

@@SuuBrainrot I replied to the wrong person, my bad.

Tech Romancer was amazing, the fact they wrote entirely different genre's of plot based on which character you played as, then fit each other character into a role in that story? Bloody brilliant. Heck, two different pilots on the same mech? Completely different tone of story. (It was the gundam expy, where one was a very ZZ Gundam style romp and the other a Zeta Gundam style tragedy.) From classic super robot show plots to a serious war drama with an ensemble cast for the big stompy military robot that couldn't jump. (With only one crew member surviving to bury the rest in the GOOD ending.) I really wish we could get a modern take on that game.

@@Sorain1 A character for just about every anime mech type. More standard Gundam story you had Dixon, but yeah the other back and forth swapping one was like some of the others. They even covered the not entirely mech ones like alien body type anime like ultra man, and even had a junk bot in there. There was just so many things well done with it and it deserves to be on a fighting game collection. We'll just about never see a sequel out of Capcom for something that was so different, content packed, and over all just brilliantly well done and told in stories for such a presentation to come together, but would be great to have it again in some form.

Given that Sakura Kasugano was in the Rival Schools series, there's already some basis for that. (Now, to meld in Kunio with the basis that Misuzu goes to Taiyou High...)

Considering how stingy Rockstar and Take Two are with anything that isn't GTA Online, that's about as likely as getting a new Darkstalkers game.

Or alternatively, the chances of Bully getting a sequel might be tough, likely because of well, ya know what I mean.