Just hoping the graphics get smoothed out a bit, so it doesn’t look like STHDR as much… Only a few scenes did that to me, but the game looks awesome so far.
That, and the lyrics in the BGM has to go…
You can see why I’m so surprised. ArcSys has always been striving for the anime look-and-feel with their fighting games. I won’t deny they’ve gotten close to it but this is the first game that I can honestly say has completely pulled it off (and they didn’t even use 2D animation to do it; perhaps that’s why it hasn’t been flawless to now).
I don’t have much interest in Guilty Gear, but this further proves how jaw dropping 2D sprites/animation are and how much of an impact they still have in today’s gaming gen.
The sprites look freaking amazing!
Like that it’s actually a cel shade that makes you somewhat forget it’s a 2.5d game.
Other than that, looks slow, probably going to sell out to slower game speed, lesser execution requirements and hopefully not much more than that. Old GG community will most likely shun this and like BB, will just take on a newer community. Luckily as far as sales go it should do good regardless since it’s part of a prestigious fighting game IP so free sales no matter how good or bad like SFIV or UMVC3. Most likely will get an arcade release which means the game will evolve competitively quicker also.
Okay now that the hype is gone… Ky looks gay. Sol uses original Grandviper. Boo. But still hype over a new GG coming out. Not too fond of the new look but I’d take it over BlazBlue.shots fired
Note: I am not a GG player. This looks good. The sprite work is fucking amazing and 3D backgrounds don’t bother me. They look like really good 3D backgrounds, total opposite of MVC2 or CVS2. I’m amused that Japan is finally using the UE like virtually every other game developer and one would hope this would make a dedicated PC release more likely.
Edit: Didn’t realize that the models are entirely in 3D. Good shit!