Rival Schools [Psx] - Intro

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Published on October 28, 2023 2:49:35 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T28OGLa7dA

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Rival Schools: United by Fate (1997)

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Rival Schools - United By Fate is a 3D competitive fighting game produced by Capcom originally released as an arcade game in 1997 and ported to the PlayStation in 1998.

Around the world, High School students are mysteriously disappearing. Police, parents, school officials, and even national governments can not determine who or what is to blame. But the students themselves refuse to surrender to fear -- "We'll protect our schools" they cry. To do so, they'll need to enter fierce hand-to-hand battles featuring powerful combo-attacks and tag-team tactics.

Rival Schools is a team-oriented 3D fighter featuring an assortment of characters, many recognizable as exaggerations of familiar High School stereotypes. Find a new use for baseball player Shoma's bat or outflank the competition with the fast attacks of cheerleader Tiffany. Harness the violent tendencies of the hyperactive Edge or unleash a precision beating with the quiet, bespectacled Kyosuke.

The main fighting game is best described as a polygonal Marvel vs. Capcom game, with some notable differences. Control wise, the game varies from other Capcom fighting games by only having four buttons (two punches and two kicks, which is closer to the SNK game format) rather than the standard six.

A player chooses a team of two characters, and fights against another two character team. The actual fights, however, are one-on-one fights, with the partner only participating by being called in when a player has enough 'vigor' for a Team Up attack, done by pressing a punch and kick button of the same pressure.

The PlayStation version of the game came in two CDs. The first disc included the original arcade game and the standard modes included in most home versions of fighting games. Capcom enhanced the original game with animated introduction and ending sequences, as well as adding voice-over to the story mode in single player. The conversion also added two new characters, Hayato Nekketsu (a hotheaded physical education teacher) and Daigo Kazama (a teenage gang leader and the elder brother of Akira, who was a non-playable supporting character in the arcade version).

The second disc, named the Evolution Disc, featured several new games to complement the arcade original. This disc included several minigames based on some of the students' activities and the Nekketsu Seisyun Nikki mode, a character creation mode in the form of a date simulation. In this mode, a player would be able to create a student and go through a typical school year. Over this time, the custom character could develop friendships with any of the characters at the various schools, which allowed to give the custom character moves and reveal bits and pieces about the existing characters and their backgrounds. Once the custom character was finished with the school year, it could be used in any of the normal fighting modes, save for the original Arcade game.

STORY:
The story introduces the player to a Japanese city called Aoharu City, where several local schools are the victims of unknown attacks and kidnappings of students and staff. The various characters in the game set out to find who is responsible for the attacks on their school, with the cut-scenes and fights portraying their interactions with the other schools and among themselves. Eventually, the story reveals that an elite school in the city, Justice High, is responsible for the attacks. The player's team eventually faces off against Raizo Imawano, the principal of the school, and first boss of the game. If certain requirements are met during the fight against Raizo, the story continues and the players play a last fight against Hyo Imawano, Raizo's nephew and the true mastermind behind the events of the game.

CHARACTERS:
* Batsu Ichimonji
* Hinata Wakaba
* Kyosuke Kagami
* Hayato Nekketsu
* Ran Hibiki
* Shoma Sawamura
* Natsu Ayuhara
* Roberto Miura
* Nagare Namikawa
* Akira Kazama
* Eiji "Edge" Yamada
* Gan Isurugi
* Daigo Kazama
* Roy Bromwell
* Tiffany Lords
* Boman Delgado
* Hideo Shimazu
* Kyoko Minazuki
* Raizo Imawano
* Hyo Imawano
* Sakura Kasugano

Features
* High-impact 3D tag-team battle
* 14 new characters - 20 fighters in all
* Two-disc set -- Play the arcade original or the enhanced "Evolution" version
* For one or two players
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Device:
Playstation Classic
Bleemsync 1.2
OTG
Sandisk Cruzer Blade 128 GB

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Ezcap 284 hd video capture

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