River City Ransom/Gameplay

River City Ransom takes place in a largely free-roam environment. You can revisit old areas or explore harder areas in virtually any order. While you can run past enemies you meet along the way the path to success is to beat these bullies up and grab the cash they drop, then using it to buy food and other items to increase your power until you can finally stand a chance against the final boss. To this end, repetition brings rewards, but you need to keep a good balance between your health and your cash&mdash;it's better to have a full health bar and an empty wallet rather than $40.00 and only a few slivers of health. Once you start earning some money and boost your stats a little it will become gradually easier to earn cash more quickly and with less danger.

Basic controls
See Moves for further information.

Statistics
Like an RPG, both players and enemies have a variety of attributes that determine their abilities.

To view the statistics screen, hit, point to Status and hit.