The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I actually liked Rival Schools (the create a character mode is awesome, too bad they took it out in the English version). I've played it a little bit in the arcades and it seems more or less the same as the old one. I'm thinking about getting it. Suggestions?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I bought it. You really can't go wrong for $19.99.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>It's a very good game. You can't beat the price, either.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>For $30 Cdn? Damn right. While you're at it, get Mars Matrix for the same price. It's the most intense shooter ever (with ships, not FPS)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Is it out yet? Rival Schools rocked.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Why would they take the creation out of the English version?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The create-a-character mode is pretty dialogue intensive. It's pretty much like your Japanese dating sim (though you're building friendship as opposed to love). One of the cool features about it is you get to choose between whether you want to go to the Power Shrine or the Love Shrine on New Year's Day. Though the Power Shrine makes your character ungodly powerful. I'm pretty sure it gives more bonus than perfecting the last test, or beating Hayato (or whatever that teacher dude with a stick was called) when you only have basic moves (weak/strong punch/kick, that's it). But if you choose the Love Shrine you get a pretty neat picture of whoever your current best friend is. There is some pretty cute story going on, for example if you choose Akira as your best friend you never find out she's the helmeted girl until the very end. I ended up with Hinata on my character with completely maxed out stats minus starting vigor bar (only 6). One of my friend played a female character and ended up with Batsu (BTW, you can be friends with anyone, it just makes more sense if you play a male character you should be going after a female character, and vice versa). Another one of his character was called Shinji, and appropriately, no one liked him, and he wasn't even trying to be disliked! I think his best friend was Hyo, though that's because everyone else hated him.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Checked Babbages, BB, and CompUSA, none of these places have Project Justice. I guess I should check EB.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>If you don't mind ordering on-line, videogamedepot.com should have it</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, seems they removed a board-based mini-game from the new one, too. At least they kept the original voices again. I really respected that and the high-quality translation in the first.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It does play like the original, but with plenty of perks. No loading time, teams of three, smoothness, new characters, etc. One of the more fun games to play with friends.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>For $30 Cdn for a Capcom fighter? Damn right</div>