Oh man, these would make excellent wallpapers. Might steal one for my console dashboard theme! Great work!
Oh man, these would make excellent wallpapers. Might steal one for my console dashboard theme! Great work!
I'm pretty sure I already own this...time to go check.
And confirmed. Bought it probably back in the 360 days.
And confirmed. Bought it probably back in the 360 days.
Treasure's games like this and Radiant Silvergun not coming to PS3 was baffling to me. Like if anyone was buying weird anime games in Gen 7, they were on PS3.
Guardian Heroes is easily worth full price even these days! So many different endings, branches, and the gameplay is top notch!
I wished they ported it to PC, but oh well.
To those that want CAN play it, please do! It is one of the most charming side scroll games ever!
I wished they ported it to PC, but oh well.
To those that want CAN play it, please do! It is one of the most charming side scroll games ever!
hands down one of the all-time best beat-em-ups, so much content between the multitude of endings and unlockable characters. don't sleep!
This game was super fun. I remember playing this on my Xbox, a brilliant game - had a great laugh playing the multiplayer with a friend and fighting against 20 TINY mice.
Man, I wish this was on PC since I don't have an Xbox.
I remember drooling over Guardian Heroes screenshots in GameFan magazine when I was a kid. I seem to remember them spending a lot of time promoting anime styled games or just impressive 2D games from Japan, and I'd gaze at them all day. Never had a Sega Saturn, so I never got to experience this one.
I remember drooling over Guardian Heroes screenshots in GameFan magazine when I was a kid. I seem to remember them spending a lot of time promoting anime styled games or just impressive 2D games from Japan, and I'd gaze at them all day. Never had a Sega Saturn, so I never got to experience this one.
Is the game as sluggish as it looks in video? I almost jumped on this last night (looove best em ups) but the gameplay speed turned me off 😬
Saw that last night, bought it and finished it all within an hour period. One of the few games that I didn't get to play on my Saturn back in the day. It's really short but a lot of fun. Great soundtrack too.
Did you only watch the earlier levels? The amount of enemies certainly picks up.
Did you only watch the earlier levels? The amount of enemies certainly picks up.
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This game is an acquired taste, but very fun when you figure out it's systems. The XBLA port has a better translation than the original Saturn release too.
Not sure what videos you've watched, but I don't think I can imagine calling GH "sluggish". Frequently, it's barely-managed chaos. At least two of the characters are very speedy. And movement/attack speed is a stat you can pump points into at the end of each stage if you wanted.
This might give me a reason to plug my XBOX back in. This was one of those games I played in passing when at some local Blockbuster videos stores. It seemed fun, but I never had the console it was one. 2 dollars seems like a deal too good to pass up. Just wish it was on Steam or something more convenient. lol
Characters need levelling up and iirc you manually assign stat points, game has multiple routes and different endings
original Saturn ver.
The first 3-4 years of that gen Sony was actually very anti 2D games on the PS3, That's why all of those Cave/Treasure/G.Rev shmups and others went to the 360.
Oh wow, there was a lot of that wasn't there?
Bernie Stolar's ghost came back to haunt the PS3.
I'll have to start up my Saturn copy to remember cause the Xbox version is filled with typos.
I'm so happy this managed to be one of the rare Saturn games to get a great port and it's still working on modern hardware. Probably my favorite beat em up ever made.
I've had GP for the past year and a bit, but I didn't actually start redeeming GWG stuff until I got an XSX a few months ago lol. I gotta check my library, but off the top of my head for games I've never bought digitally (GH being one of them), some others I actually own on disc, but are in my library as well (VF5 Showdown, I think some of the Forza games, Mass Effect, few others), don't need a disc to play them. Bit weird.
Oh yeah, everyone take note:
OG graphics, OG gameplay. The new graphics have a sort of amusing pencil drawing quality to them, but the re-release has two different game modes that change how to play. If you don't like one, it can be altered.
Everyone with an Xbox should own this and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara. Two of the genre's best ever.
amazing game, and if you have an Xbox then you have no excuse to try this out imo. this is a great port, I even sold my Japanese Saturn copy because I was only really playing this version lol (+ i stopped collecting retro games due to the insane market).
Easily one of the best beat em' ups ever made. Maybe the best. Damn I wish I had an Xbox. Everyone buy this game.
I wouldn't really call either of these weird anime games, at least not in that sense. Bullet Hell games, in particular, had a pretty large presence on the 360.
For Radiant Silvergun, we know that Microsoft published that version specifically - and considering it had to have the bulk of its assets remade entirely, rather than simply ported or emulated, it wasn't a particularly small amount of work. Though we know Guardian Heroes was published by Sega, I wouldn't be surprised if this never made it over due to Microsoft partially funding the port or something as well, though I'm not privy to anything on that front and it's purely conjecture on my part.