Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus revives an age of raw, unfiltered 2D fighting (review)

Imagine creating your own fighting game. You hate having boring karate guys as your main characters, so instead you make them a gritty bounty hunter and a holy knight whose superattack comes from a Metallica song. In fact, everyone is named after rock artists, and they all fight with shadows, living hair, giant keys, and other crazy weapons. And your game is going to have every mechanic possible: Air dashes, double jumps, combo escapes, parries, and much more. These fights will award aggressive players and those who have the skill to defend everything that’s thrown at them. And forget about blocky 3D graphics – your game will look like you’re playing a 1990s anime.