this game is amazing. very fast paced anime fighter with one of the best soundtracks i've ever listened to, fun mechanics and a very unique and remarkable cast. it can be really hard to pick up depending on the character you choose to play, specially if you don't have prior fighting game experience. despite being released more than a decade ago, this game is very much alive and the Brazilian and English communities give it a lot of love and attention. you should definitely give it a shot, bring a friend along!

really fun and free to play platform fighter. the game doesn't require much of your PC and uses a system of weapons instead of giving each character a new and unique moveset, so it's a very acessible game. i played it for a VERY long time, but after i started playing other fighting games i grew bored of BH's combat system. because of the fact that each character's moveset is determined by the weapons they use, the characters in the game feel pretty much the same and that can become boring after you get to know more complex traditional/anime fighting games with characters that have unique movesets and mechanics. please note that i'm using "can become", "i (personally) grew bored" because it's still a fun game nevertheless and some people will just never get tired of it, no matter how much they play other fighting games. changing the subject to playing the game itself, the solo queue toxicity decreased a lot since they removed the post-match chat, so the ranked experience is probably a lot better for people who don't deal well with that right now; the weapons might be simple, but this game has such an amount room for improvement and optimization that comparing a person playing a weapon at a basic level to a professional player using every single tool it has to its best function makes you realize how complex a game with such a limited combat system can be. definitely an "easy to pick up, very hard to master" kind of game. i definitely recommend giving it a shot if you're into platform fighters!

REALLY fun game if you have a bit of money to put into it. it's nice to have a notion of the meta before starting to play the game so that you strategically buy characters who have good perks, but if you don't want to do that, you can just buy whoever looks more fun and that's totally fine. to unlock a character's perks for other characters to use, you have to prestige that character and, because of that, the game does have its fair bit of grind, but it's mostly fine. good competitive game with a nice soundtrack and (mostly) decent gameplay. if you're new to it, check out Otzdarva on youtube, he makes a lot of content in order to help new players get into the game.

characters are very limited, pretty much soulless and the developers seem like they have no idea about how to balance their own game. only buy this if you really wanna play the game. if you just wanna get into the Guilty Gear franchise, i suggest GGXXACPR or GGXRD-R2.

Edit: game is good again. wild assault was a nice addition, giving (almost) all characters more pressure extension and combo routing possibilities. the balance feels good for the first time in a while and every character is at least viable, with the exception of Zato. good game.