Released just last week, Guilty Gear Strive has topped 300,000 sales across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam. At first glance that may not seem like much, but context is needed: Guilty Gear has always been a very niche property buried within the already niche fighting game genre. It's highly likely that this is the fastest selling entry in the series by some distance, and it'll probably go on to be the franchise's most successful instalment.
Guilty Gear itself has been around since the 90s; it first debuted on the original PlayStation all the way back in 1998. Since then, there have been six mainline games, bolstered by eight updated versions, and six mostly weird spinoff titles.
Guilty Gear Strive deserves the success, as far as we're concerned. It's a fantastic fighting game, and we should have a full review for you very soon.
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It's a very niche franchise, so that's not bad.
The PS5 price at £40 will definitely help it have long legs I feel.
£70 and it would have been dead on arrival.
I’m back and forth with this and Virtua Fighter 5. While I’m confident enough to take my game online with VF I’m still trying to learn the ropes with Guilty Gear.
Very good considering it launched in the same time a Virtua Fighter game was made available for free and with Resident Evil: Village and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart dominating the headlines.
@blinx01 I am not into fighting games but the character designs are unique and the animations are very well made plus some awesome cutscenes made me buy the before this one.
Is there any single player mode?
Good, I am happy about this,and hopefully arcsys sees this as a success and truly pushes this game more in advertising and long term frequent support.
They just need to fix the bugs on pc and fix the server problems on both console and pc, and add the crossplay that they promised (which is looking likely), then the game will escape from the all to common fate of fighting games dying a month after launch.
This and R&C are my GOTY.
@Dr-M Yes, but it's only a movie. So no fighting. Which is weird.
@Dr-M Yes but it requires a previous knowledge of the games, so you should probably watch a recap or some cutscenes of previous games.
Well deserved, and I hope more people get into it. I’m new to Guilty Gear and having so much fun. I can tell I’ll be playing this for years.
@Dr-M There is an arcade mode, mission mode which is a very in-depth tutorial, and a really well-done training mode. I’ve never been a “lab” person, but I’m spending hours in training mode having a blast.
The amazing netcode is really the pearl in the oyster, so if you’re not interested in that maybe wait for a sale.
@Abeedo @WCB Thank you all so much.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.
@Spiders yeah probably I will wait for a sale and may be this game will make me get into fighting games and learn to be good with the Arcade mode.
Appreciated.
That's nice to hear and all but where the hell is the review? E3 has sucked balls so you guys should be doing this.
@z0d15g0d You already got the avatar, you know how good it is!
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