6 months ago
The latest in the long line of fighting games that make up the Guilty Gear franchise is Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus for the Sony Playstation 2. The game features a number of playable fighters including a couple bosses from previous games and four new characters unique to Accent Core Plus.
Overall, the game is very much similar to its predecessors in the way it looks and handles. It does, however, bring a few new modes to play and maintains the frantic gameplay that fans of the franchise have come to love.
As with many fighting games out there, you can get by fairly well by button mashing. Guilty Gear, though, is one of those games where you definitely fair much better if you know a special move or two that you can execute at the ideal time. Luckily, if you pause the game mid-fight you can take a look at your character's move list. It's a great tool to use, more so if you're playing single player, but the move chart shows the arcade buttons rather than the PS2's controls. So if you're not sure which button is your kick or your punch and whatnot, it's not much help.
That's where the training mode comes it. Training mode lets you perfect your basic fighting skills with any of the assortment of playable fighters so you'll have the best chance of winning the best-of-three matches that make up the bulk of the game.
Other modes are the standard versus modes (both one- and two-player), story mode (where you play through a character's storyline), and survival mode which plays sort of a like a last-man-standing one-on-one fighting game.
But as nice and fun as Accent Core Plus is to play, it doesn't really bring anything new and groundbreaking to the series. It's mostly the same moves and the same characters as before, though I do hope Bridget never gets replaced. He's just way too cute and fun to play as.
If you're new to the fighting game genre or haven't logged a whole lot of hours with the Guilty Gear franchise, Accent Core Plus will be a great game for you. If you're a fighting game pro or have played a good amount of the past Guilty Gear games, you won't find anything outside of the ordinary with it.
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and my final Game Guys grade is a solid B.
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