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Annon-Guy: In regards to this poll I sent you, what do you think of the games I chose for the Guilty Gear and XBLAZE/BlazBlue Options? Think these would work in Compilation Games?

Guilty Gear: Guilty Gear Judgement (and by extension Guilty Gear X2 since's it bundled with Judgement without it's Story Mode Component), Guilty Gear Petit, Guilty Gear Petit 2, Guilty Gear Isuka, Guilty Gear Raid of Arms and Pro Jumper! Guilty Gear Tangent!?

XBLAZE + BlazBlue: XBLAZE CODE: EMBRYO, XBLAZE LOST: MEMORIES, BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale and BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma

https://www.tumblr.com/annon-guy2/755360705613545472/potential-collectioncompilation-game-poll?source=share

Bloody Roar/Beastorizor Collection (up to Konami, actually) Treasure Collection (up to Treasure)

Both of these are on my wishlist (I also wish Dodonpachi had a compilation collection, anything shootemup related by Cave really…)

Also, speaking of Treasure, I've got my eyes on Ubusuna which is supposedly coming out either this or next year and is a spiritual sequel to Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun. (Also Mischief Makers and Silhouette Mirage technically...)

I doubt there will ever be a perfect Guilty Gear collection because of Guilty Gear X port problems, which I've mentioned in an older post.

As for Xblaze, no idea, Lost Memories already contains a "recap" of the events of Code Embryo though, so there's that.

I kinda wish BlazBlue Dark War got a Visual Novel adaptation at least, or even just a Light Novelization.

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Annon-Guy: Forgive if I already asked this before, but what was your first Guilty Gear game and what drew you into the series?

You weren't the first to ask me, but I suppose, since I have a ton of new followers lately that a refresher is in order…

It all started with a Magazine Article I read sometime back in 1999.

At the time, I was still playing games like Mortal Kombat 3 and X-Men versus Street Fighter, and Marvel Super Heroes, but most chances I had to play them was still strictly in the Arcade Scene (I wasn't a rich kid, by any means, so playing these games was few and far between). Even playing Darkstalkers was a rare occasion.

At the time, it wasn't easy to get Japanese games, let alone obscure "unpopular" fighting games that nobody heard of… Guilty Gear: The Missing Link was one of those games.

I was lucky enough to have my step-father buy me a PlayStation game console for my Birthday… but to be honest, even back then, getting decent games that ran on it wasn't easy either.

XMvSF was a disappointment on that console, so at the time I was playing stuff like Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Soul Blade (Soul Edge in Arcades, the precursor to Soul Calibur), and once in a blue moon I got my hands on demos of obscure things like Tekken 2 and the original Beastorizor (Bloody Roar), as well as demos of Battle Arena Toshinden.

Again, like I said, getting the full versions of these games wasn't easy… I was a poor kid in grade school and moving on to high school and my parents didn't like my gaming habits to begin with…

It wasn't until the summer of 2000 (roughly, my memory is a little hazy at this time), that I went with one of my old friends to visit our old local State Fair in the hot summer.

After having a little fun and eating some fair food… we left to head home, but on the way back, we came across a very rustic-looking used-record store.

The name of the place is Record Head… back in the day, they were more famous for selling old speakers, used drums, VCR parts, and guitars, but they also sold used records and… USED GAMES.

On that hot summer afternoon… Lady Luck gently put her "Golden" hand upon my shoulder.

For a measly $15 I bought not one but TWO FAMOUS FIGHTING GAMES.

Guilty Gear: The Missing Link

and

SAMURAI SHODOWN 3: BLADES OF BLOOD (better known in Japan as The Peerless Blade of Zankuro).

I was so excited… I couldn't wait to go home and play both these games… my friend at the time could probably tell how elated I was.

My early first impression of Samurai Shodown 3 was the infamous "Samurai Slowdown" moniker that the game was known for having ridiculous load times… but even back then, it was still pretty to play and fairly arcade accurate.

However… the first Guilty Gear was EVEN BETTER.

Faster combat, almost NO load times, ridiculous mechanics… not to mention being able to CHARGE UP YOUR ATTACKS AND DESTROY SOMEONE.

Outside of Alpha 3's World Tour Mode and dipswitches, I had never known such freedom in a fighting game before.

Freedom… to cancel your attacks in to anything…

Freedom… to airdash anywhere you want to go, jump where you want to go…

Freedom… to do over the top skills, and pull off ridiculous combos…

The original Guilty Gear for PlayStation (PSX as we called it back then) was also a glitchy mess… some hitboxes would shift from one end of the screen to the other… people could accidentally input instant kills just by button mashing…

I'm actually more surprised it didn't crash like later fighting games might be prone to doing!

But to me… all that chaos was just proof of the freedom I was getting, instead of the restrictive precise inputs that Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were known for.

I still very much enjoyed games like Samurai Showdown and Soul Calibur of course… among other fighting games I could get my hands on (I still regret not getting in to the Bloody Roar Series, and Toshinden… but I was too poor to afford those games…)

Perhaps one day I will revisit them on my YouTube Channel… but I digress!

Some time later… I met a man who would become a major rival to me for many years, who also introduced me to Guilty Gear X Plus… but that's a story for another day.

If I had to say the character that left the biggest impression on me… it was Justice. Not Sol Badguy, not Ky Kiske… not even Baiken or Testament.

Justice was the character who left that huge impression on me in the very first Guilty Gear that came out in the summer of 1998.

And I've been playing this series ever since.

Nowadays I play less Justice and more Ramlethal… but the excited and fierce feelings I had back then haven't changed very much.

I still face challengers with gusto… and I take my losses with honor…

I think I've also gotten a lot stronger than I was back then.

The "me" from back then was… very immature and impulsive… I got hot under the collar more times than I care to admit.

I'd say my "old self" would throw a tantrum and rage quit if he fought against "the current me" today.

But that's part of growing. And nowadays I play a lot more than just Guilty Gear.

Perhaps one day I'll forgive Capcom for their past betrayals and even play Street Fighter 6 one last time… we'll see…