Guilty Gear Strive, the upcoming fighter from Arc System Works, has been delayed.
The studio recently put out a statement from producer Takeshi Yamanaka. The game, which is famed for its amazing visual style, was originally scheduled for late 2020. The team has made the decision to push back the release to "early 2021".
As you might expect, a large contributing factor to this delay is the impact of coronavirus. "While our company's staff and our business partners are putting in a sincere effort in dealing with the changes due to the spread of COVID-19, every aspect of our development schedule has faced delays," Yamanaka states. Arc System Works is going to use this extra dev time to "further improve the quality of the game responding to everyon's help and feedback from the recent closed beta test".
Guilty Gear Strive was showing real promise when we took it for a spin in said beta test, and it certainly looks stunning. Still, we're sure the game will only improve with a couple more months of work. Are you looking forward to this game? Don't feel guilty in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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disappointed but not surprised. Hopefully further development will go into the UI because it looks awful
That's a bit of a shame, at the moment this is the only upcoming game for the system I'm looking forward to. But if it means a better game in the end, it's always worth the wait.
Gorgeous looking yeah, but I’m not really impressed with this one. Hopefully the delay will do this some good.
Saw a lot of negative feedback from the fighting game community too (not ALL bad, but quite a bit), so I wouldn't be surprised even if we weren't in a pandemic. I personally like the new meter system that punishes players who play too defensively because it forces me to switch-up my playstyle and be more aggressive, so hopefully that doesn't change!
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