Guilty Fighting Heroes

Opis Guilty Fighting Heroes

Ignoring the traditional one-on-one fighting action that Gear is so synonymous with,
Arc System Works has instead looked towards the brilliant Japan-only brawler Superstars -
which in turn is more than a little inspired by the Smash Brothers range of titles.
The play area is now two screens in height – thereby making use of the dual displays of the -
and four characters fight it out at once.
As you can imagine this is a massive change from the highly focused combat of the original Gear games and bouts have tendency to be quite chaotic, making it difficult to follow your progress and anticipate the tactics of opponents.
The conversion from one-on-one scrapper to four player free-for-all is not an altogether successful one.
Games like Superstars and Smash Brothers work because they have been built from the ground up with this kind of gameplay in mind;
Guilty Fighting Heroes fails because it’s a jack-of-all-trades that tries to fuse the ideals of one style with another –
the measured approach of a one-on-one fighter and the gloriously unpredictable nature of a multiplatform beat ‘em up.
Characters have been dumbed down deliberately to make things easier,
which of course will only serve to anger hardcore followers of the franchise.
Advanced techniques such as dodges and evasion manoeuvres are also cast aside,
and as a consequence each fight is severely lacking in finesse.
The final nail in the coffin is that despite the tinkering done to shoehorn the Gear concept into the multi fighter arena,
the roster of fighters still harks back to the format of original games and guiding each combatant around the arena is no where near as intuitive as it is in Superstars.
As a result, mounting an assault on rival pugilists is nowhere near as straightforward as it should be and very often you feel like you’re controlling characters that have somehow gotten lost in altogether foreign territory.