Guilty Gear: Strive cover art

Guilty Gear Strive

2021 · Arc System Works · ~20h to finish

The inputs were made easy so the system could be hard. Roman Cancel is four mechanics behind one button, and every match above the low floors is decided by who used it correctly.

fightingpvpPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesMetacritic 85
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty5.7STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

Price on Steam

$39.99

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
7.0
Execution
5.8
Learning Curve
5.6
Obscurity
5.1
Strategy
4.8
Punishment
3.5
Grind
3.0
Puzzle
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Learning Curve drops 1.4 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 5.0 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 35% · ~15hStrategy

    the one button that turns out to be four different mechanics

    36
  2. 60% · ~40hLearning Curve

    the online floor where mixups stop working and neutral starts

    33

Assists & accessibility

0/5 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Practice / training mode [unsourced]Training mode with frame data, hitbox display and recording.
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]CPU difficulty scaling offline.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

  • Replayable tutorials & glossary [unsourced]Tutorial, mission and combo modes covering system mechanics individually.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

An anime fighter deliberately rebuilt to be enterable: shorter combos, simpler chains, and enormous damage, so rounds end in a handful of correct decisions rather than a minute of pressure.

Where to go from here

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