Guilty Gear Isuka

At first, I used to hate this game...

And then I played Guilty Gear Strive's 3v3 mode and realized this ain't so bad.

Guilty Gear XX blahblahblah version, but with some extra mechanics that Guilty Gear games don't normally have, 4 player multiplayer, and some random bells and whistles like a color customizer. It's neat if you're a huge fighting game nut who likes to check out weird versions of games (me).

As a party game, there's not a lot too it besides being an up to 4 player Guilty Gear, having a beat-em-up mode, a couple of weird exclusive characters (that you have to unlock), and a customizable character (that you also have to unlock stuff for). This game also goes particularly crazy with the number of buttons + button combinations there are to learn, which tends to not be great for party games.

To end on a positive note, there are some beautiful stages that you can buy Steam profile backgrounds of.

The Worst GG

This one's weird but ultimately it also has Bridget.

Heaven or Hell! Round 2 ! Let’s rock! Wow just wow. Idk how you go to a fun 2D fighting game that own the fighting genre than flop like a fish on a deck to a horrible beat em up. Like I get it’s like the 6th game in the franchise but this is rough. For arcade cabinets in Japan, they want to let the people experience a 4 player beaten up with your favorite guilty gear characters to this point. The problem is that they can’t program a simple beat em up. Controls do not work. Attacks will either not come out or your character will be stuck in going to one side of the screen. I thought it was just the character I was playing, but no. It’s every character. The main story is just slug fest to go though. Like stages drag on and on to waste your time. I don’t recommend it. If you decide to do vs mode than you in a world of pain. Controls still are not good in this mode and you can have up to 4 people fighting on 1 screen at once. It’s like taken smash bros but putting it in a box you can’t walk off or have no platforms. It’s a giant cluster muck of a mess with no real strategy. Just button mash to win. Now what is scary is that you can set CPUs to level 999 which is one of the most insane things to do. Fun to watch , but being slaughtered is not. The cast of characters is one of the best in the series which I do like. It’s sad to not see half of them return in later games. To bad they had to down grade the visuals. This game just one of those games that more of a spin off not really worth playing unless you like gaming history like me. Go to the next Guilty Gear unless you like to be killed by some level 999 CPUs. Some one might like that challenge. 3/10

LEOPALDON FOR STRIVE

It’s just so peak

Although the "normal" 4-player mode isn't the greatest, the "GGBOOST" or beat 'em up mode is extremely fun. Beating up groups of enemies with supers is really fun, especially with moves like tyrant rave and robo ky's punch super. The highlight though is ofc the RKII factory mode. Like the description of this game says, you can create an unbalanced nightmare in this game. Though, I only customize my robo ky to optimize him for the beat 'em up mode. The way Robo-Ky gains meter in this game is absurd compared to +r. Instead of only gaining 3 "chunks" of meter, robo gains five, which basically means that you can spam supers with robo. Which is really fun when you have ten enemies caught in the storm. I wouldn't play this game at its regular price, but when it's on sale you definitely should get it, as it's a great solo player experience for those that like Guilty Gear and other games like it. Though, as I mentioned, the other gamemode isn't very well made. I mostly blame the lanes they introduced. It's hard to tell when you can actually hit your enemy or not if they aren't in your lane. And with four fighting game characters' flashy moves all going at once, it can be hard to pick out your character from all the visual noise. It's not good for 1v1 because it has a turn button, and it's not good for four-player because of the lanes *and* the turn button. It's unfortunate they didn't include a "regular" gamemode that's more akin to other Guilty Gears, since I imagine playing Robo-Ky mk II would be really fun if you could do that. All in all, this is a good experience for what it's listed at, though I would definitely wait for it to go on sale, since it does pretty often anyway.

good game, but the new ones is much better, in graphics and playability

Leopaldon is the best character in all media of all time. We need Leopaldon in Guilty Gear Strive.

GUILTY GEAR!!!

If you're seriously looking for the essential 2D Guilty Gear, go look for Accent Core Plus R which is the most up to date and realised version of the Guilty Gear XX series. GG Isuka here is instead a rather strange spinoff with a focus on 4 player action.

To manage the chaos of 4 character running around, GGI uses a two-lane system and a button DEDICATED TO TURNING YOUR CHARACTER AROUND. This makes the game even weirder to play and you can basically forget playing as normal. Otherwise, it has the GGXX cast (plus first-timer ABA and the boss Leopaldon), exclusive stages and a banger soundtrack. There's also a "Boost mode" where you take your fav character and trash enemies like in Streets of Rage; its fun but repetitive.

The game is fun for what it is: a janky and chaotic experiment not to be taken too seriously. If that's what you're looking for, then give it a try!

The bad news: the steam release is a straight port of the PS2 version and it has trouble recognising and remapping controllers. Changing display modes is also a "let's pray it doesn't crash" thing.

God I WISH I was ABA in the cover art.