Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
2015
Audio: Japanese · Subtitles: Korean, Chinese, English, Japanese
- fighting
- arcade
- action
- single player
- multiplayer
The story
Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator is a Japanese fighting game and the updated version of Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign. The updated version adds new characters Jack-O, Johnny, and Jam Kuradoberi, as well as updated mechanics, balancing, systems, M.O.M. Mode, and more.
What it’s like
Hand-drawn anime sprites that look like inked cel animation, with a 2.5D stage behind them that swings and pans like a camera operator who cannot sit still. Hits flare in bursts of hot white and crimson, and the screen shakes with a heavy, satisfying thump, while the palettes lean toward dusky purples, rusted reds and sun-faded gold. The soundtrack is loud, electric rock and metal that pulses through the fights, with bright vocal stingers and a gleefully overwrought feel to every announcer line. Fights are fast and flashy but rarely grim: violence is stylised and cartoonish, with exaggerated blood-spurt effects, no gore to speak of, and no sexual content. Think of it as a fevered, loud Saturday-afternoon hit of energy, best played in short sessions when you want to feel sharp and a little wild. The pacing is relentless once a match starts, and the tone sits somewhere between pulp melodrama and cheeky self-parody. It suits players who love learning tight combos, enjoy spectacle, and want a comic-book sense of drama rather than dark seriousness.
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