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If you are for more flash and less substance than what was in GGX-2 give it a try

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am left to ponder how many people played Guilty Gear, Guilty Gear X, and Guilty Gear X-2. Those wonderful games built up high expectations for sprite designs,beautiful 2D graphics, great fighting physics, and a stirring epic story tailored around odd yet awesome characters that are tributes to various rock stars and heavy metal musicians.

In a futuristic apcolypse magic is once again reality and scentist created "gears" to fight the battles of mankind. Gears are genetically enhanced life forms of immense power but as expected they were not so easily controlled. This caused a futuristic crusade as humans sought to slay all rebelling gears in order to save humanity. No, the plot was not the most original thing ever (especially if you've watched alot of anime) but it was well executed and the individual characters had alot of depth and personality.

Guilty Gear X-2 even introduced "story mode" in which each character had up to three endings. Like in a psychadelic Silent Hill chapter you could get a good conclusion, a bad conclusion, and a weird "wtf" conclusion. This encouraged people to play through Guilty Gear X-2 many times even when there were no other friends around for versus competition.

So now we come to Accent core. What is accent core? Essentially it is Guilty Gear X-2 with more characters. Sadly at least 2 characters are just odd knock offs of pre-existing heroes (Holy order Sol and Robo Ky) and for some idiotic reason Accent core gutted the story line out completly. This was a very bad decision. I loved Aba for example and though players may know about her past from other games they'll be left in the dark if this is their first Guilty Gear.

The game as always demands you play hard. Guilty gear's fighting system is very in depth with air dashes, special moves, instant kills, and cancels. Looking at the chaos on screen is like seeing Arcana Heart after it reaches puberty and grows up into one sexy and hot specimen. For those that had problems with Arcana Heart's slow speed this is a welcome alternative. Things go alot faster in Accent Core.

However this game fools you. Sure you have alot of characters. Yes, it is fun to play "IF" friends are over. However it is hollow on the inside. It is re-packaging Guilty Gear X-2 only with far less content. Worst of all accent core tries to say "I'm only for da hardcore fighters!" which is insulting to the fighting community. It assumes us fighting fans are happy with nothing more than blatant eye candy and the bare bones basics. It assumes we do not love characters enough to give two craps about how they develop as people, what relationships they get into, or what surprising turns they must face on the road to self discovery.

I don't care who disagrees with me. I had Guilty Gear X-2 and it was a far superior product to this mere pale shadow of its original greatness. If you are a guilty gear fan please demand the next installation in the series recaptures the awe of the original games. Let these people know your not going to settle for this travesty.

The stories of Axl,Dizzy,Testament,May,Johnny,Zato, Millia rage,Ky,Sol,Anji,Baiken,Jam,Chipp,Slayer,Potemkin,Bridgett,Faust,I-no, Kliff,and Justice are left on the way side yet to be finished. This game teases us with mere illusions of the heroes and villians that made the series so great yet it uncovers nothing more about them. All you do is beat the crap out of pixels until you get a hasty "congradulations" and a piece of concept art. That is NOT an ending.

Bottom line is if you just want this game for tournaments against friends it is likely one of the best purchases you can get so long as you love 2D fighters. However if you are like me and love Guilty gear for its deep death metal symbolism and rock opera style of story telling this game will disappoint you to no end.

Pros

-Alot of characters

- A few new characters

- Awesome fighting physics that are slightly improved over Guilty Gear X-2.

- good amount of speed.

-Great soundtrack

-Jaw dropping stages

-Best versus action ever

Cons

- No story-line

- I-no is as merciless and cheap as ever

- Some characters were beefed up while others were left by the way side. This has created a huge balance problem.

- Most extra characters are remakes of pre-existing characters. This shows lack of originality.

- Other games in the series such as Guilty Gear X-2 are ALOT better overall despite some faults.

You may also like Guilty Gear X-2,Arcana Heart, Kof XI, Street fighter alpha anthology, Street fighter anniversary collection, Neo Geo Battle colesium.

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game was sent quickly and works with no problems.
I'm highly satisfied with my product.

High complexity 2d fighter

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Guilty Gear is 2d fighting at its best and most frustrating. As a button masher this game is ok, but you shouldn't be buying it unless you are serious about learning how to play fighting games at a non-scrub level.

Each character is unique, the visuals are great and fun and the gameplay is fast paced. Watch some YT videos to get an idea of what high level play looks like. The combos are a joy to watch and pull off. Once you purchase you'll want to visit dustloop.com for much needed supplemental info.

If you aren't super familiar with thinking of fighters in terms of frames of invulnerability, mixups, frame advantage, etc. Do yourself a favor and buy a simpler 2d fighter like Capcom v SNK2 or a Street Fighter title and once you've mastered high level play pick up GG.

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