Logging and reviewing this game as I got the plat.

As I mentioned in my review of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, I have issues getting into a lot of fighting games. Guilty Gear as a whole was one of these games, as I could not get into Xrd despite my attempts. Guilty Gear Strive, through simplifying a lot of my pain points and improving game feel enough to allow me to feel the improvement, while still remaining traditional in some aspects. The roster, especially 3 seasons of DLC in, contains a lot of great characters, new and old, with old characters getting varying levels of rework. Not all the changes are hits, I especially mourn the loss of Dragon Install on Sol, but most of them are fun takes on the characters. While movesets were largely truncated, there's still a nice spectrum of complexity, from the fundamentals based shotos to an entire card game. A few of my personal favorites are Potemkin, Testament, May, and Elphelt. The game isn't totally perfect, the singleplayer offerings are sorely lacking, but it remains a mainstay of the fighting games I play for good reason.