{"id":21048,"date":"2021-02-26T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21048"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:22:24","slug":"game-preview-guilty-gear-strive-ps4-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/26\/game-preview-guilty-gear-strive-ps4-ps5\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Guilty Gear -Strive- (PS4, PS5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While Street Fighter 2 is probably the most recognizable one-one-one 2-D fighting game series, there are plenty of others that have made a name for themselves over the years.\u00a0 With its anime styled characters and rockin\u2019 soundtrack, Guilty Gear is just one of those series.\u00a0 And there\u2019s a new one coming out in about a month called Guilty Gear -Strive- and I got a preview beta build of it to review!\u00a0 Now, keep in mind since this is a beta build, there may be changes to the final game.\u00a0 Hopefully I\u2019ll get to review that, too! Anyway, Guilty Gear -Strive- will be available on PS4 and PS5, but I\u2019m playing the beta on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Really the only things you can do in the preview build are play a match in single player, or go online.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t go online because I\u2019m not too terribly good at fighting games, but you can see the menus in the beta and what the final game will have.\u00a0 There will be a story mode and gallery and one of the selections says \u201cFishing.\u201d\u00a0 If there\u2019s a fishing game in the final build, I gotta try that!<\/p>\n

In the single player beta, you can\u2019t pick all the characters, which is a shame because most of my favorite fighters aren\u2019t in the beta, like Jam, I-No, or Baiken.\u00a0 Some of the returning characters seem more or less the same to me, like May who still fights by summoning dolphins and hefting a heavy anchor around (she must be really strong), or Millia Rage who still fights with her hair.\u00a0 But some of the returning cast has changed a lot!\u00a0 One of my favorite characters used to be Faust because he had weird and silly moves and wore a paper sack over his head!\u00a0 But in this game, he still has a paper sack, but now he\u2019s some kind of undead skeleton zombie thing and is pretty scary!\u00a0 At least one of the new characters is really cool.\u00a0 Her name is Giovanna and she has a pet blue wolf dog monster ghost thing that helps her fight!<\/p>\n

If there is one way to describe this game, it\u2019s big.\u00a0 Characters are Texas-sized and take up the whole screen from top to bottom!\u00a0 No wasted space here.\u00a0 Even the words that pop up that tell you if you countered or whatever are huge, but they are in the background so they don\u2019t get in the way.\u00a0 Another amazing thing about the game is how they seamlessly blended anime cartoon intros with the game itself.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to tell when the cartoon ends and the fighting begins.\u00a0 Probably the closest thing to a playable anime I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

If there are any problems I had with the game, it\u2019s that a lot of the characters seemed to move kind of slow.\u00a0 Maybe it was the characters I picked, or maybe it was a trick of the eye since most of the characters take up the whole screen.\u00a0 Also some of the animations seemed a tiny bit choppy, but I bet that was because it\u2019s a preview beta build.\u00a0 But I really hope I get to review the final game, too, and if you are a fan of Guilty Gear or fighting games in general, you\u2019ll want to check out -Strive- when it comes out in about a month or so.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guilty Gear -Strive- is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Violence, Language, and Mild Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fighting game, so of course it\u2019s violent, but I didn\u2019t notice too much blood and bad language in the preview build.\u00a0 Even though they were not playable here, some female characters have suggestive themes that are more than mild, and look like they\u2019re about to fall out of their clothes (I-No, I\u2019m looking at you).\u00a0 So I think this game would be best enjoyed by preteens and older players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Street Fighter 2 is probably the most recognizable one-one-one 2-D fighting game series, there are plenty of others that have made a name for themselves over the years.\u00a0 With its anime styled characters and rockin\u2019 soundtrack, Guilty Gear is just one of those series.\u00a0 And there\u2019s a new one coming out in about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21050,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21048\/revisions\/21050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}