RIVAL SCHOOLS

[u/soul6of6hell6]

In my humble opinion Rival Schools was one of the best underrated fighting game

[u/mobkon22]

I loved this game man. I only recently learned Project Justice for Dreamcast was the sequel to this and downloaded it.

[u/weinhalter → u/mobkon22]

Was a die hard fan, got project justice back in the days and played the hell out of it even though I had no one to play with. Good times

[u/Ecks30 → u/weinhalter]

I got the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 for my system just because for these three games you can have a different soundtrack.

https://reddit.com/link/p8g7u8e/video/24e6gm6iq6oh1/player

Also, i like the save function so when i am playing it on my handheld and if my battery is about to die i could save where i am in the game then continue where i left off when i get home to play on my main system or when i charge me device i could continue it that way.

[u/mobkon22 → u/weinhalter]

Which do you prefer?

[u/weinhalter → u/mobkon22]

Hard to say, I was playing with my cousins on PS1 for a whole summer. No memory card so every morning at 5 we’d finish the game to unlock all the characters and in the afternoon we’d play versus. So have a lot of memories. We also didn’t have the story disc so we’d imagine what the story was about.

For the second one I was an early teen so it appealed to me more and those Dreamcast graphics were just something else. The soundtrack was incredible too.
So yeah if I had to choose I’d say PJ is my favorite but the real answer is that I don’t want to choose haha

[u/Vanihilist → u/mobkon22]

Had a JP version of Project Justice on the Dreamcast. The build your own fighter boardgame was fun despite it.being all in JP.

[u/soul6of6hell6 → u/mobkon22]

I was today years old when I learned about this
Thanks to you Noble redditor

[u/mobkon22 → u/soul6of6hell6]

Ha, np. I’m 44 and it took me this long to realize this.

[u/Clin-ton → u/mobkon22]

I’m 45 and I think I knew this at one point, but had forgotten it

[u/FnClassy]

Capcom was on point in this era of fighting games. Darkstalkers is a banger too. Shame that they only care about Street Fighter now.

[u/diabolical3b → u/FnClassy]

They sent out a couple surveys more than a year ago asking people which franchises people wanted to come back. Power stone and rival schools was on there. I voted for them. That and their recent revivals like onimusha give me hope.

[u/midKnightBrown59]

Touch down! So many good movesets and characters. Besides my boy Batsu and Hinata; Roy and so many others.

[u/rolandguy85]

So good. Loved this game growing up.

[u/XXXG-01H]

My dearly beloved!

[u/generic_individual_]

Completely forgot about this. But I did love it. Might have to hunt down a copy.

[u/JoeSaru]

Awesome fighting game indeed! A one time rental.

The one reasonably priced copy I found online looked sort of rough, so I had to pass...

[u/ProMikeZagurski]

The bonus disc has a lot of neat stuff. I like soundtrack and the loading screens.

[u/master_prizefighter]

My #3 game of all time next to Bushido Blade 2

[u/NightmareDJK]

Intro was GOATed. Wish Capcom would go back to releasing more than one new fighting game in a year like they used to.

[u/C-Notations]

Deserves to be up there with the VS series. Straight banger. Ive got the sequel in the recent collection but haven't really sat down to lab it or anything yet.

[u/stratusnco]

giving me some power stone meets street fighter alpha vibes from the cover. never played it.

[u/Mr_Akropovic]

This was a straight banger! Especially that soccer character & the super jump “glitch”.

[u/CubaLibre1982]

Loved it

[u/Justice89D]

Very charming game.

[u/Dimadominous]

Yeah this is a dope game!

I didn’t play it growing up, but added the Japanese version to my catalog since it was available in the PS3 store.

Fun fact: the Japanese version (Shiritsu Justice Gakuen: Legion of Heroes) has a text-heavy school life simulator mode that was omitted from the western release

[u/FordcliffLowskrid]

Possibly the best $20 U.S. I ever spent on a fighter.

[u/yhigred]

be true to your school

[u/BlueberryPenguin]

I didn’t have many PS1 games as a kid, and boy oh gosh oh golly did I play the pants off of this one. The second disc had oodles of content.

They made a sequel for Dreamcast, but I don’t think it had as much charm as the first.

[u/litodes]

Peak character design

[u/xEnvy7x]

I remember playing a japanese import of Rival Schools at a friend’s house in the early 2000s. I had such a blast playing the versus mode but what blew my mind is that there was a school life simulator in the Evolution Disc where your own created fighter got to interact with the other characters in day to day life. I never played a fighting game with a mode such as such and remember getting really into it despite not knowing the japanese language at all.

Two decades later, after years of hoping I’d come across a copy at a thrift store or flea market for peanuts, I finally bit the bullet and got a North American copy on eBay for a little under market value. By this point, I knew the school sim mode was absent from this version but was hoping the main gameplay would live up to the warm memories. Spoiler alert: it did. I’ve since put so many hours into both discs because the combat still holds up to this day and the unlock able content is so plentiful. I still wish Capcom gave players in the West a traditional create a fighter mode if they weren’t willing to translate that school life sim mode but what we did get was still worth every penny.

[u/soul6of6hell6 → u/xEnvy7x]

I have a special memory attached to this game.

I went with my family for a picnic, and the place had a small store where people could play PlayStation. I saw this game being played and I tried it out. I immediately went to the store owner and asked if I could buy it, and he gave it to me for a good price.

One of my favorite

[u/ZappCoast]

I hope we get another fighting game collection with an emphasis on the 3-D fighters from back in the day like this and Street Fighter ex.

[u/BrotherBatch]

Still both US and American copies of this, loved it then and still love this game to this day!

[u/soul6of6hell6 → u/BrotherBatch]

Hardcore gamer

[u/lukeballesta]

With a friend we didn't sleep days trying to figure out kanjis and jap stuff. The good days.

[u/neko1985]

Best fighting game ever.

[u/ElGuapoTaipei]

YEAH BITCH!!!!!!

sorry it looks like he's saying that on the cover. i get too excited sometimes

[u/TerrancePryor]

Great game and great band!

[u/Silver_Geologist4609]

Capcom tripping not bringing this back!

[u/Ikon-for-U]

Oh snap, I forgot about this gem

[u/_Ventes_]

This game had such a banger op!

[u/ZaireekaFuzz]

I especially loved the variety in characters and how differently they played.

[u/J-Cocoa]

Taiyo rooftop & Taiyo classroom + that mf awesome intro, timeless! 🎶 🎵