A case where I gotta bear in mind the context this was made under. It's a game made by a small team who had never made a fighting game before, spearheaded by a very passionate lead who just wanted to make something he thought was cool. And the game very much has that written all over it.
Very janky. Air dashing is like moving through molasses. Some moves make no damn sense. Hardly balanced. And occasionally pulls something so damn goofy I go "The fuck was that?". Yet there's still something so charming about this game. Maybe it's how much Daisuke put his interests into this one game that he had no way of knowing how well it'd do. His passion for Heavy Metal can be felt in the OST. How much he loves Bastard in the art and designs. And his love for his fighting games as a whole. It really is an interesting beast of a game.
I would by no means ever recommend this as someone's first Guilty Gear. It's too flawed for me to do that in good conscious. But I can recommend it to die hard GG fans, and gaming history nuts. It is well worth it to see one of the foundational games in anime fighting games.