Current Events > This is one of the best game trailers ever

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https://youtu.be/urUM2Ne_vTw

I've made this topic in the past, but I got sucked back into Guilty Gear stuff and I want to talk about it.

First of all, this was the first new Guilty Gear fighting game in six years. Fans were demoralised because Arc System Works had essentially lost the franchise to Sega - all they had was Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske and That Man, and they made this weird action game RTS type of game that got mixed reception. They gave Ky a son with another Guilty Gear character they didn't have the rights to, so they had to allude to who it was very softly.

This trailer was the perfect way to reveal they got the rights back and were making a brand new game. I was in the fandom during the hiatus, this was fucking incredible.

Secondly, this was the first 2.5D game of its kind. Obviously it wasn't the first throwback to 2D fighting games done in a 3D style - the earliest I can think of would have been Mortal Kombat vs DC, and the first one to really make waves was Mortal Kombat 9.

What I mean is that this was the first game to intentionally "look" 2D. It was the first fighting game to make these cel-shaded character models and develop them to look exactly like a 2D sprite, giving the game the freedom to look, move and feel incredibly crisp, but fully capitalising on the look and feel of the original 2D fighting games. Like you have to understand, the 3D models are physically manipulated frame by frame to look like smear frames. No-one else had this attention to quality before this.

The trailer has such an incredible bait and switch. Like okay look at these two sprites, they're about to fight, oh damn look at them jump around it's 2D - and then the swords clash, and the CAMERA PANS AROUND THEM in realtime to show that they're 3D models. Guilty Gear Xrd was the first fighting game to do that.

Third, the music. Heavy Day is the best lead-in song to a fighting game trailer. Nothing comes close.

This trailer was hype. It was innovative, it was a total crowd-pleaser and it fucking rocked all over. This is easily in my top three game reveals.

Don't you call Overture weird; it gave birth to my main in Rev 2 lol