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Best of the 2d Fighter games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Guilty Gear is an amazing game, with some of the most original characters, and is totally unknown to most people. If you wanna impress your friends by being the first on the block to discover this great game, I suggest you buy it now.

Best 2D fighting series made today

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm really surprised this series is still so unknown. I've been playing Street Fighter installments for over a decade and I own every Capcom 2D fighting game for the PS1 and PS2. Hands down, Guilty Gear's the best in graphics and gameplay. In a sense, it's what I would imagine Samurai Showdown to become if it had evolved. I'd really thought 2D fighters were dying out a couple years ago before I picked up Guilty Gear X and I was wrong. And each sequel adds more depth and innovation. For instance, GGX had a solid cast, graphics, gameplay and the inclusion of a blockable Instakill move that could be attempted once in a round. Each Instakill was unique to that character and all were entertaining. GGX2 had all that plus more characters, unlockable ex versions of the characters from the previous game and sp (gold) alternate characters with their own attributes. The effects and depth of vs matches were so impressive, especially with further ways to alter your fighter from its regular version and now a four player fight fest? Forget about it. I don't even see anything on the horizon that will knock this king off his throne IMO. Luckily, this being a fairly little known hit hasn't seemed to hurt the series since they're on the 3rd game on the PS2 and still innovating the gameplay. Get this game while you can because Guilty Gear games become pretty rare after a year or so and don't go on Greatest Hits.

BEST 2-D FIGHTING GAME TODAY!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: February 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS TIGHT AS HELL!! THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST 2-D FIGHTING GAME OUT! I AGREE WITH THE OTHER REVIEWS ABOUT BEING BETTER THAN THE STREET FIGHTER GAMES,BUT ONLY IN SOME CASES! YES IT IS BETTER THAN ALL THE STREET FIGHTER GAMES EXCEPT FOR ALPHA 3 AND CAPCOM VS SNK 2. IT'S DEFINITELY BETTER THAN THAT GARBAGE FIGHTING EVOLUTION!! IT'S JUST LIKE COMPARING MADDEN AND ESPN FOOTBALL,IN SOME THINGS IT'S BETTER BUT IN HISTORY AND OVERALL MADDEN IS BETTER AND STREET FIGHTER IS BETTER BECAUSE IF IT WASN'T FOR STREET FIGHTER THERE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE NO GUILTY GEAR!

Very nice, but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Guilty Gear XX before playing this and I must say, it felt akward in the transition. Fans of previous GG iderations may be a little shock with the new 4 player system. There are two things that will throw off a Guilty Gear veteran when they first pick up Isuka: 1) You have to manualy swap which direction you face because of the possibility of having multiple enemies on either side of you and 2) There is now a foreground and a background space that you can swap between. However, while akward at firs, you'll get used to it. In fact, the background-foreground can be utilized very effectively for teams or suprise strategies because what lies in one of the plains is unaffected by the other.
There is also a new feature unique from its predecessors which is "Robo-KyII Factory" where you can customize a Robo-Ky with special attacks borrowed from the other characters (which can lead to bizzare instances such as if you equipped him with Slayer's blood-sucking ability) in addition to being able to tamper with his stats like speed, attack, life, ect.
I was somewhat dissapointed at the lack of story mode like in the other Guilty Gear games.
All in all though,this game is meant for multi-player. There is pretty limited single-play options, but the multiplay is terrific. While one may think the action will be WAY too hectic seeing to it that other 1v1 iderations of Guilty Gear were already pretty insane. However, the creators managed to make it all work out. How? Can't say, I just does :P But to be able to have "scenarios" between the players imgination by having "dream match-ups" like Sol and Ky vs. Millia and Eddie is simply awesome.
This game blows any other 2-D fighter out of the water with its bizzare characters and great fighting system. In fact, I may go so far as to say it beats many 3-D fighters such as Soul Calibur II because I've played that too and I scoffed at the 2-D fighters at the time. However, once I laied hands on Guilty Gear, I haven't gone back.

Sammy is GUILTY of selling CRAP!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: May 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry that others find this game to be the best but lets get down to an honest review. The thing that KILLS this game is the fact that the single player mode is goverened by the same rules as the 4 player. This totally kills the game. Imaging having to press a button to turn around? This might be acceptable in a 3D game but come on, a 2D side scroller? Worse yet in a 2 on 1 battle the flaw really shows!

Pros:
-The graphics are once again awesome as the previous version (nothing beter)
-On paper the action can sound cool. 4 player combat sounds crazy and fun.

Cons:
-Story mode is not what it was in X2
-Having to press a button to turn around is awarkard adn DUMB
-Single player (for God alone knows what reason) is guided by the multi player rules.
-4 player chaos not implemented very well. The fighting this time seems broken.

Final word: Get Guilty Gear X2 and leave this crap alone!!!

Confusion?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard that Guilty Gear Isuka was coming out I was really excited. But once I got it and started to play it was somewhat good and dissapointing at the same time. First the good, There are new vivid backgrounds which was cool but I still like the old ones, new music which was alright with me, you can customize Robo-Ky 2, and there is about 2 new characters excluding Robo-Ky 2 and they are A.B.A some undead looking girl who fights with a giant key and the extremely cheap boss which I like and hate Leopaldon one of the most hard to describe characters so if you want to see what he looks like, look him up on google images or something. And also GG Boost mode is awesome brings me back to the side scrolling beat em up days, good stuff. Now the dissapointments, I thought the 4 way battle would be awesome but it was kind of confusing and manually turning around pisses me off it would be alright if you had the option of choosing the standard fighting format of the previous Guilty Gears and this new way, the Arcade mode is just a disaster to me its basically just Survival mode with Leopaldon at the so much continuation I cant imagine how much quarters you have to give to the arcade machine of Isuka, the life bars are kinda of weird and may be hard to keep track of, and I wanted more characters to choose from. So if you really like the gameplay of the first three Guilty Gears I wouldnt suggest you buy this game, unless you are a really big fanatic of Guilty Gear this game may not bother you at all and hey it may be one of the greatest games you have played. But all I have to say is GG Boost mode, its fun!

Bad version of X2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, let's compare the awsome X2 with this version.
Here we get:

- The annoyance of having to turn your character around
- Uglier stages, one stage is so bright it's hard to see which way Zappa is facing
- 4 character battle, which is kinda fun
- No story mode (or at least not near as good as X2)
- "2" new characters
- The exact same charactersprites and combos as before
- Character screen that is so small you have trouble finding the character you want to play with

Really, just skip this game and get X2. This is just an uglier version with some extras that just aren't worth it.

Wonky Controls and Survival Mode only

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Everywhere I went to research the best 2D fighting games mentioned the Guilty Gear series as being epic, the best. The major review websites sung their praises, and I heard that I should get either Isuka or Accent Core XX for the best version of Guilty Gear.

Let me tell you people who read the same things I did, that Isuka is not the Guilty Gear you want.

Controls are frustrating (manually turn your character around in 2d...?) and the actual gaming experience is survival mode. There is no arcade mode. What you get is something that looks like arcade mode, but has something called a 'daredevil.' Whenever you are doing well against one on one opponents, suddenly the word 'daredevil' flashes across the screen. It interrupts your battle, and suddenly you have to fight two or three different characters at once (with no health recovery) instead. Oh, and you can chain daredevils... until your fighting score hits 100 and the 'daredevil' is a boss named Leopold who is invulnerable except for his head. Not good times.

Let me repeat one last time: this is not the Guilty Gear you want to buy. Try Guilty Gear XX Accent Core instead.

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