Guilty Gear no se reedita para aportar novedad, sino para recordar qué ocurre cuando el juego es sistema y no envoltorio. No necesita contexto, nostalgia ni adaptación: su combate sigue siendo legible, exigente y expresivo. Exigirle algo “nuevo” es no entender por qué funciona. Cuando un sistema sigue hablando décadas después, el problema no es el juego, sino cómo lo escuchamos.

Guilty Gear is a very bare bone, yet ambitious fighting game. While the franchise is well known for its affinity for rock music, you can tell that the first outing was very toned down comparatively. The game just screams a company trying to figure out what they want to do with their franchise, and a lot of character and sound design reflect this. While it is jarring to look at the characters now compared to their later counterparts, nonetheless it is fun to see how they came to be. While I wouldn't recommend this to most people, fans may get a kick at looking at this older entry, and it certainly holds up better than most of its competitions first entries.

The original Guilty Gear is... fine, it's fine. GG shows a commendable amount of passion however due to it being a first in a series and the hardware limitations, it falls short. While the music is good, the rest of the sound effects are compressed to hell and back for the ost, the sprites are good looking while stationary, but start looking very off when in motion and the gameplay is fine, but now that it's on the Switch, with what is ostensibly the best fighting game ever made; Guilty Gear XX, the cracks show and it becomes very unattractive Guilty Gear has a lot of charm and a lot of heart, while it's not a game I ever go back to, it is one I respect a lot and it warms my cold black heart knowing Daisuke and his team made something of this dinky little ps1 game.