City Connection's revealed their final new title ahead of TGS: Rushing Beat X: Return of the Brawl Brothers, a new game in their Super Famicom brawler trilogy Rushing Beat (localised as Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers and The Peace Keepers, respectively) that, just based on the publisher logos in the teaser trailer, seems to be western-made, or at least western-focused. I'm surprised it took them this long, frankly—SOR4's, what, three years old now?
This was a series that only succeeded to the extent that it did by being in the right place at the right time—that is, being the two-player brawler option when Capcom under-delivered with their Final Fight port—and while the later games certainly showed more ambition in terms of non-linearity and an ever-so-slight focus on character interactions (much of which was excised from the localisations), I'd hardly consider them hidden gems or anything, and I can't imagine many people are going to have strong opinions about which direction they may or may not be taking the series because.... like, who gives a shit, really.
(as opposed to, say, Forever Entertainment getting their claws on Night Slashers... brace yourselves.)
that said, the reason this series is even on my radar is because lil dude was obsessed with Brawl Brothers for a minute—I bought him the NSO sub at the same time I gifted him SOR4 and a bunch of other games but whenever I'd check in on him he'd be playing Brawl Brothers instead of SOR4 or Splatoon or whatever, and bringing it up in conversation with his friends as if they'd have any idea what the hell he was talking about, and it was that moment that I knew that, despite my best efforts, I had well and truly fucked him up
