GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-

Sadly an overlooked game in the series due to its status as an RTS game.

I was not overwhelmingly familiar with the genre when I played, but I found myself having an immense amount of fun, despite traditionally being a fighting game player.

If you are a guilty gear player, this game is fundamental to the series' story and the RTS gameplay is not as janky or strange as it may seem.

If you are an RTS player, give the game a shot! It's on sale often and from what I know, I think it offers a unique take on the genre and the story is still interesting even if you don't know the story of the rest of the series.

I just finished the campaign, and it made me realize, I was living to play this game. It is genuinely awesome, with an interesting (but somewhat weird) gameplay, an amazing (but kind of complicated) story. Nothing else I have been enjoying as much as this, and almost gave up on it because of frequent crashes, which I was able to fix in the way it happened less. Valentine is genuinely interesting despite the lack of her feelings and screentime (since she only appeared in this game) and for every character debuted in this game (note that Raven debuted in X Lightning the Argent novel, which I have not finished yet but likely has more content of him than Overture) even if Paradigm sucks at times (story wise he is decent, his moments with Ky are interesting). If you are interested in the lore much and/or wanna try out a new kind of game even if it can be hard to understand or weird sometimes, I definitely recommend this game. Now that I finished it, I love it even more than Xrd Rev 2, and might be my all time favorite video game ever.

Valentine..

Actually pretty fun, has difficulty to it- a storyline that.... I don't quite comprehend due to starting on Guilty Gear Blazblue and then... getting this hah.... I like it though- it's definitely not the 2d fighter the other entries have been. Definitely is story-driven, if you like somewhat of a MOBA style game, this is it. 7/10 So far!

Heaven or Hell!?.... Lets Rock!

Peak

Guilty Gear running away from the formal. What could go wrong!? So for some reason there are a lot of video game companies that want to take their IP’s and try to make them something their not. This is a fighting game series. I understand when they tried to make it into an arcade beat em up. However they took them and lied to people by making this Guilty Gear into a RTS. Idk why. I get Guilty gear takes big brain to play, but this is such a big departure that is a glitchy and uncomfortable mess. Battleborn lied to its player base about being an not RTS and so did Brutal legends. If your purposely trying to make an RTS or have experience making one that’s fine but this company does not. It does not help that Fan favorite Sin Kiske is the only good thing to come from this game. It also does not help that this spin off game has important information to the story and has the Kingdom Hearts treat ment to make you play the side offs to understand what’s going on. Just watch a YouTube video. This game is not worth your time to slug through boring RTS rounds with 6 different characters. Thankfully GG goes back to the formula after this because I don’t want to ever play this again. 2/10

Game crashed as I was popping off and about to win a really hard mission 0/10

So I only did the main Story so far and its honestly really amazing. It was story heavy and the game play was super enjoyable. I went into the game with 0 expectations of it being good but i was pleasantly surprised by how the game was. Of course a controller is easier to use when playing this game (at least it was for me) and despite being a little shorter than I would've wanted the 20 missions were very enjoyable especially the final boss! Nothing in the game is too complicated and its explained well through the rules and conditions of each mission I'm normally really bad at meeting requirements but the constant A to S ranks were easy to obtain due to its easy functionality.

I also really enjoyed the way Sin got more story towards his character I love Sin already from XRD and Strive and other media ive seen from him but Overture gave me a brand new perspective to his character that I also really enjoyed. Learning about Sin before the events of XRD and Strive is so wonderful to me and it really does bring my opinion of Sin higher which makes me excited to see him in Duel Rulers when it comes out in April.

His and Ky's relationship was also really nice to see develop during the game too I never expected the start of it to be like that and honestly it really puts into perspective how much has changed over the years/weeks which take place in the game. I like that part a lot in the game it really showed off a lot of character for both of them even if it was only for a short part of the game.

Overall I think Overture is genuinely I really good instalment for the Guilty Gear series though it may not be in the conventional fighting game format we know and love Overture ventures out of that safe zone and tried something different which I really do think worked well for it as its a very story driven game. The models and the world map are different in design in comparison to the other games but I also think that works well for Overture and its pretty in its own nostalgic way
I really do love this game and its sad that its so short.

I briefly played the free mission mode and its basically just the Campaign missions but you can play as the relevant characters in the game (including valentine) and I loved it honestly. I love Valentine so being able to play as her is a real nice bonus! <3

So the main gist of this review is I LOVE GUILTY GEAR!!!!

"Shut Up"
- Sol badguy

game is horrendous

This is by far my favorite guilty gear game and i heard its also the creator more or less his actual vision of the game,and i recommend it to anyone who doesn't know what game to play for now.

гилти дота, нихера не понятно на самом деле

peak

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For Anyone who think if it's worth your time or not

Then, watch this video. If you do not want get spoil too much, than set time to 2:52 and watch only the start of battle.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3369975597

This last battle literally ROCKS. That will give you a idea, that you can atleast play for story or cool soundtracks. But the game, fully filled with Guilty Gear atmosphere. The characters, the world, story, dialogues. All of it.
Like, the last Elite Unit of Sol is named "Queen", or working combo system, and etc. Which means, its Guilty Gear game in any aspects. That's for sure.

GAMEPLAY

First off, check the steam thread for controls, if you will play with keyboard.
-You are in 3D action game with lock-on system or can play with free camera. Your Master have servants and Master Ghost (your base). You can play up to with 2 players in match (in team). Every character (except Dr Paradigm) have a descent move set, which you can link in to combos by varios methods (I'm myself is bad with combos, haha).

-Play with servants actually was very interesting. There are 5 types of units and everyone have their weak points and strong points. Better, if you will learn it by yourself, atleast basics. If no, and you wanted a more analysed opinion, then just search info at "DustLoop". There are every servants showed their specs. Also, in steam thread, you can check discord to play with people.

-Also your Master have slots for varios items: buffs, summons, offensive items (bomb, rod), special. It will give more options to gameplay

- There are 4 main modes to play: Story (Campaing), Free Mission, Exhibition and Online. Also, Training is avaible too.
In "Campaing", actually, you will not play to much with servants managment. It has a bit more unique missions, then standart gameplay. Or better to say, only few first missons is played with Master Ghost. The others missions doesnt have it and even do not show you all avaible servants in the game at all. For that, you have Free Mission, Online and Exhibition.

-Manage items, servants and Master Ghost in match, occupy key locations (Ghosts) to increases income, and use your Master to destroy your opponents. That's what about this game in a nutshell. Gameplay is unique and fun. Looks a bit cheepy, but it doesnt matter for actually good games. Gameplay and atmosphere - what is really matters.
Cool soundtracks like cherry on the pie.

CONCLUSION

No matter what says others people, escpesially ages ago, this game is a WORTH to play. Definetly 100%. Just try it. It ROCKS in some way. And fun to play. The only problem which you can only have, it is a cheepy, sometimes clunky stuff. But hey, it is 2007 year game (which most likely, are created much earlier than 2007), so give it a credit for it. As I said, Gameplay and atmosphere - what is really matters!
Somehow, I like it more than Guilty Gear Strive. Do not mean, that is game bad, no. Just said, personally, I enjoy it more than Strive.
That's all folks!

P.S. Also, recommends to play some training in free missions to get more idea, how to play the game.




(Простите ребят, за отстутсвие русского обзора, если кто из русских наткнулся на мой обзор. Тут лучше на английском дать ребятам достойное представление об игре. К сожалению, игра недоцененна среди игроков. По определенным, не объективным причинам)

very fun gaameplay

Volcanic Viper: 623:S/H (Air Ok)

It's an RTS. It's a MOBA. It's a fighting game. There's a unit type weakness triangle. There's roman cancels. There's an item shop. You issue commands to your units from an overhead view. There's oki and crossups. You gain currency from captured towers that you spend on units or skills. There's a burst that spends all your tension, which is a separate resource than the actual currency. There's weirdly satisfying drifting (like, with a car, but you're running).

This is a thoroughly baffling video game. Very little about its systems make sense and yet there is a very clear, fascinating vision here. The combat is clunky at times, but can also be intensely satisfying. Unit management is fairly straightforward, and (most) each character having a unique tribe of units in addition to having unique moves makes character choice very interesting. And, again, you can drift. Why? Why not.

You can pick it up for like 2 USD on sale, so if you enjoy poking around in weird games, or just want to see the black sheep of the Guilty Gear series in action, it's worth picking up and playing through the 4-5 hour campaign, at least.

I only played the story mode so far and i'm glad that they didn't just decide to erase it from existence. A lot of modern Guilty Gear's story is based on things introduced in this game. Artistically, this game is really cool, and if that's enough to make a game worth buying then you will probably like it :]

Also I think Izuna should come back. Even if he's just in the background or something. please ArcSys <3

genuinely i don't know how to describe this game cause its like league of legends but also devil may cry but also guilty gear. Its so weird, never have i had a more confusing gaming experience. Its both awesome, mid, and dogshit all at the same time literally how did they do that

Ky is Gaara, Sin is not-depressed Sasuke, even Kakashi's VA is in here for some reason.

These facts alone are worth the price of admission, however the gameplay, as everyone else says, is legitimately years ahead of its time. Daisuke is a mad genius.

its peak

best game ever made

it's like a Musou game but the NPC's actually do stuff

one major flaw in the combat is i wish combos were better. one huge thing i can think of is making you able to use your RT=back launcher while the opponent is grounded cuz the time thr enemy takes to get up is horrifically slow.

the dashing around is weird but fun (until you crash into a wall), Mario Kart could never.

it's also the only Guilty Gear game i'll play

Gay anime men duking it out, 'nuff said.

crashes make the game unplayable

This one's good i promise.

daisuke has a lot of vision for his stupid ass games. so the year is 2006, and this dude i mean he's losing his mind after building these horrible fighting games with nonsense plot for a decade because he can, being an immensely gifted composer, traditional painter, director, animator designer the works. only for the majority of the rights to his original characters to be taken away in a custody battle.

In his hubris he decides that, having done minial design for 3d games in his youth, on like a random tennis game and fairly unknown mech game, the next logical step for guilty gear, or what remains of it, will be a mixture of a dynasty warriors game, an anime fighter and warcraft 3. With declining staff on board, amid a continuously declining economy on weird next gen hardware, this garbage saga continues in guilty gear 2: overture, completely disregarding the scope, naming conventions, and most of the existing lore for that matter; begrudginly, the series continues.

Consider also, that this is a moba that precedes league of legends, in a way it dons an important legacy in the space of competitive games despite having never been spoken of in the same sentence as its contemporaries. Personally i'm only interested in the campaign. It is shit, full stop, its one of those tutorial campaigns that teaches you how to play the game online with all 20 of daisuke's unwavering apostoles. Its also a lot of fun, it threads a fine line between being, original, inventive, visionary for its time, a formative step to a genre that ended up playing absolutely nothing like a simple series game despite arcsys' prehistoric footprints on the moba genre.

See, you give a man an xbox 360 devkit and he goes insane with power, he renders 600 characters in a room at once and fills the screen with explosions, the hardware, with 500 mbs of ram and 3 core cpu expectedly, chugs and you can visibly tell by the timer taking 3 seconds to count down 1 second, his adhd brain doesn't care; he thinks instead, there needs to be a level where you run around a sea of blood like a freigh train, tokyo drifting around explosions trying to catch up to a mech too large to fit on a screen.
In over a decade of development and ballooning revenue league of legends has never matched the heights of glue sniffing gameplay that overture did in, at most 2 years of its making. (possibly less, the previous game to this was released in 2006) Idk what they put in the yen that motivates japanese men to sleep in their offices writing this bullshit when it keeps going down in value.

And yes the story is nonsense, its completely canon and infact some of the most important scenes to the series are shown in this game, featuring at most 2 pre existing characters + dizzy who due to legal reasons had to be frozen on ice and can only be referred to as mommy and 'the maiden of the forest' in quotation marks. As is the tradition with guilty gear, the story only transpires in drawn out scenes of characters standing in place explaning made up sci fi rules that smuggle music theory terminology in some nebulous attempt to explain why sol has to kill his wife again, meanwhile ky is a father trying to reconnect with his family in an increasingly discriminatory political climate, an emotional turmoil he's left to discuss with a furry cat man and a dragon in a hamster ball, "sega sammy owns the rights to my wife" he mutters, dr paradigm however, suggests they kill her. Truthfully something that could only ever be penned from the heart.

Other highlights of overture are the horrendous stealth section, there's this level where you have to run around a rainbow road type racetrack, there's all the boss fights which unfortunately don't withstand more than a single super move a piece, yet feature some of daisuke's most career defining music.
In this sense it differs a lot from contemporary rts offerings; warcraft 3, sengoku basara, one has these lengthy campaigns with fully fleshed out plots for each playable character, the other was episodic and reiterated upon with each game and this could have very well been the intention for overture, it was a valiant attempt at exploring unconventional game design concepts like capturing towers with combos and investing money to super several times in a row.

Anyhoo critics fucking hated this game, it was eaten alive by the press for being a confusing obtuse and undecipherable mess, it had no advertising and saw moderate success, it is not remembered by most 360 owners, needless to say guilty gear's venture into strategy games was bright but short, it had a wonderful future ahead of itself where it could have shared the throne of ludic louvre with games like earth defense force and armored core but arcsys sought to instead continue its kusoge fighting game legacy through blazblue, they would eventually recover the rights to daisuke's characters and guilty gear 2 overture would never be spoken of again. I think anyone who suffers from lead poisoning or who has repeated exposure to gas leaks owes it to themselves to try this game.

paradigm is a trash teammate the strongest man alive wouldn't be able to carry his ass.

More of an interesting artifact of a genre branch that never was than a good game. Still worth checking out for historical value and for just being a weird game

Worth playing with mouse and keyboard and because half of the community tab is panty shots

the future. too far ahead of its time to get the appreciation it deserves.

blows dookie shrek

PEAK GUILTY GEAR PVP EXPERIENCE

(This is also the only Guilty Gear I can win against another human in)