crystal
2022
2008
2022
2022
2021
it's a pretty fun game but that's kind of all you can say positively about it.
character kits are extremely stripped down, placing each and every character into a box of "this character does the same exact thing no matter who picks them" rather than a kit you can develop your own playstyle with. the amount of interesting ways to use your meter has been ripped from the game and as a result, getting any meter has to take a longer amount of time to balance the game out better.
a lot of the charm from older gear titles is ripped from this game too, stuff like the instant kills, the character interactions, etc. is almost completely gone from strive, and the entire game seems like it's aiming for some sort of weird pseudo-serious tone when guilty gear, and as an extension fighting games as a whole, have been and always will be kind of silly games with a lot of stupid shit in them.
singleplayer has never been any fighting games strong-suit but strive offers literally nothing interesting in this department. you have arcade mode and an endless mode, and that's kind of just it.
it's fine if they wanted to allocate those resources elsewhere, but it doesn't seem to have been in the roster considering this game launched with 2 less characters than Xrd did, nor was it spent on the mechanics considering there are less of them than in previous games, nor was it spent on the characters since their movesets have all been stripped down, definitely wasn't on the balance, maybe it was just on the visuals, in which case we're basically saying we made every other aspect of the game suffer just so that the game could look prettier.
i understand strive was supposed to be a new direction, but this new direction just made me wish there was a lot more here. also the airdash in this game was the worst idea ever and it knocks this game down 0.5 stars on its own fuck you
character kits are extremely stripped down, placing each and every character into a box of "this character does the same exact thing no matter who picks them" rather than a kit you can develop your own playstyle with. the amount of interesting ways to use your meter has been ripped from the game and as a result, getting any meter has to take a longer amount of time to balance the game out better.
a lot of the charm from older gear titles is ripped from this game too, stuff like the instant kills, the character interactions, etc. is almost completely gone from strive, and the entire game seems like it's aiming for some sort of weird pseudo-serious tone when guilty gear, and as an extension fighting games as a whole, have been and always will be kind of silly games with a lot of stupid shit in them.
singleplayer has never been any fighting games strong-suit but strive offers literally nothing interesting in this department. you have arcade mode and an endless mode, and that's kind of just it.
it's fine if they wanted to allocate those resources elsewhere, but it doesn't seem to have been in the roster considering this game launched with 2 less characters than Xrd did, nor was it spent on the mechanics considering there are less of them than in previous games, nor was it spent on the characters since their movesets have all been stripped down, definitely wasn't on the balance, maybe it was just on the visuals, in which case we're basically saying we made every other aspect of the game suffer just so that the game could look prettier.
i understand strive was supposed to be a new direction, but this new direction just made me wish there was a lot more here. also the airdash in this game was the worst idea ever and it knocks this game down 0.5 stars on its own fuck you
2015
1996
potentiality great game spoiled by the fact its an RPG from the 90s and thus is really hard to get into because absolutely nothing about it tries to be approachable or streamlined.
i obviously didn't finish this game, but after being so harshly confused by everything in this game and having to rollback to older saves after fucking myself to the point of no return multiple times i dont think i can handle any more of this game.
i obviously didn't finish this game, but after being so harshly confused by everything in this game and having to rollback to older saves after fucking myself to the point of no return multiple times i dont think i can handle any more of this game.
2020
1996