A great 2d fighter no question about it but is it worth youre money?
One of the best 2d fighters ever created, with graphics that marvel and gameplay that deceivingly deep.
So lets get started shall we!
Graphics: Easily the best 2d fighter graphics out to date and quite possibly the best 2d graphics in any genre. The graphics will really pull you in as the beauty of each attack and the many nice little touches really make the graphics shine. The little touches I’m referring to are neat little effects like sparks flying of the weapons when they collide, lightning bolts falling apart after hitting an enemy and nice speed lines to make the fast frantic action seem even faster. The characters are all very unique and very cool and all have their own distinct style to them making each a joy to look at.
Gameplay:
The gameplay is just what you would expect from a 2d fighter responsive, fast and hard to master. The thing that makes this one stand out from the regular crowd in the gameplay department is that arc system works decided to put in an extra helping of fast.
So with al the action packed fighting going on around the screen making sure that the fast is well spoken for lets see how the other departments hold up.
The game like any fighter is responsive (as you just can’t have a good fighter without responsive controls), and the game is hard to master indeed. Without before written combos you are able to pull off (as in tekken for example), you are expected to string together your own combinations. There are off course different neat additions as to make your combo longer and longer as your skill increases. The most important ability being the roman cancel which basically lets you cancel a move after you land it to decrease the waiting time you often get after a move so you can hit hard and hit fast enabling you to string together longer combos. The characters play differently from each other because they all have different basic attacks and very unique special attacks. Off course you’ve got the traditional fast, strong and balanced types but they are all a joy to play even though the game could be a bit more balanced.
Sound: This game has one of the best soundtracks a game has ever had. Hard metal is pounding during every fight (off course I like metal so opinions may vary) getting you suitably pumped up for massive damage (pun intended)
The sound effects are no slouch either dishing out the expected sounds of pain and skin bruising with the nice effect of metal being hit against metal when nothing but two weapons collide.
The game also has the best round announcement off all fighting games ever namely “Heaven or Hell .. Duel one… LETS ROCK” as everybody with a sense of cool knows.. that is cool.
Durability:
Well as you might have seen before I myself have already put 100+ hours into this game and the last time I checked (2 years ago) I had put in about a 180 hours in the game. Now let’s see why that is.
The game has a story mode with 3 different paths per character depending whether you lose or win certain fights. Although The story mode feels like an excuse to ferry you from one fight to the other it is more than worth it to get each story path for you are able to unlock some secret characters that way (namely : Kliff undersn (from Guilty gear one), Robot Ky and Justice (Guilty Gear one).
Besides that you have survival mode where every ten fights a shadow version of a normal character shows up which is noticeably harder to beat, You’ve got a M.O.M mode in which the enemy lets out a shower of medals that you collect for points , a challenge mode where battles need to be won according to specific rules and the traditional v.s. modes. So all in all this game should keep you busy for a long time.
As you can see I think very Highly of this game and I think that any gamer should at least try this game, any fighter fan should at least rent this game and any 2d fighter fan should’ve owned this game a long time ago.
So go out and try to find it now.
(p.s. here’s to a ps3 version)