My review of Temtem on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/welshpixie/recommended/745920/
speaking of River City Girls, any track with Noize's voice actor doing vocals is amazing. https://kuniokun.fandom.com/wiki/Noize Her character design is rad as fuck and also
fuck just
she has literally the best fuckin' boss theme in the entire game.
River City Girls spoilers. and also lore about the entire Nekketsu main series too
That said, Misako and Kyoko DO appear in a couple other games, but never as Kunio and Riki's girlfriends. They both appear in Misuzu's team for one of the more recent sports games in the series too.
So... the whole plot could be seen as like, a massive case of Unreliable Narrator. Hence why the otherwise stated to be gentle, bubbly Mami and the shrewd, kind-hearted Hasebe are written as snobby and divaish in RCG.
River City Girls spoilers. and also lore about the entire Nekketsu main series too
Granted, you could play (briefly) both Misako and Kyoko up until a certain point (I did not realise this!) and they have their own special moves etc.
HOWEVER
In the original Nekketsu game (localised as Renegade in the west), and RCR/Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, Mami and Hasebe are the love interests of Riki and Kunio respectively, and also in various other games throughout the series!
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.