Related reading: REV2 is an update to Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator, which came out last year. It added Blitz Attacks (similar to Street Fighter IV’s Focus Attacks), supercharged supers, throw breaks, and an easy control scheme called Stylish Mode, along with new characters and revamps to the game modes available. Revelator was to Sign what Guilty Gear XX Accent Core was to Guilty Gear XX Slash, or Super Street Fighter IV was to Street Fighter IV: a new game in the same sub-series, which doesn’t bring the kind of overhaul that a new numbered title would, but expands on the core mechanics quite dramatically. It continued the story of the previous game, and added new characters, mechanics, and game modes. It was exactly what you could want from a sequel: a game that pushes boundaries and tries new things, without forgetting its roots and the things people play it for in the first place.Ī year later, Arc brought us Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator, an update and sequel to SIGN. It even managed to keep the series’ iconic 2D art style in place despite a shift to a 3D engine, thanks to some masterful cel-shading and animation techniques.
Despite a pared back roster and the absence of some fan favourites, its selection of fighters offered a good mix of old and new, with a wide variety of fighting styles. This was a long-awaited new game in a franchise that had been collecting dust for many years, and it lived up to every expectation: it kept the series’ trademark depth and complexity, while toning down some of the needless technical difficulty that plagued the earlier games. In 2015, Arc System Works released Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, and fans of the series rejoiced.
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