Guilty Gear X Advance Edition
One of the prettiest 2D fighters ever made goes to the Game Boy Advance. Does this little chunk of anime combat art pass the shrink test?
After nearly a year in publishing limbo, the handheld version of one of the purdiest durn Street Fighter?style 2D fighting games ever made finally hits the Game Boy Advance. It?s clear the programmers were given two directives: make sure all 14 characters look good and animate smoothly, and make sure it plays as close to the original as possible. While they definitely hit their marks, those two GGX fundamentals apparently sucked up all the prime ROM real estate: The trademark special effects fireworks are gone, most backgrounds seem like pale, watercolor imitations of the originals (you can count the colors on two hands), and the audio track is atrocious. If you?re a Guilty Gear nut, this will definitely do you right on the road?but most casual fight fans will wanna stick with the superior SFA3.
