(LAST UPDATE: 3/16/2010)
Developer(s): Arc System Works
Publisher(s): Sammy Corporation
Designer(s): Daisuke Ishiwatari
Platform(s): PSP
Release: August 22nd 2006 (
),
September 5th 2006 (
)
Characters: Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Millia, Chipp, May, Jam, Johnny, Baiken, Potemkin, Dr. Baldhead, Axel, Anji, Venom, Dizzy, Testament, Zato-1, Justice, Kliff, Slayer, Bridget, I-no, Zappa, Robo Ky
Related Games: Guilty Gear, Guilty Gear X, Guilty Gear X Advance, Guilty Gear XX, Guilty Gear X2 #Reload, Guilty Gear XX Slash, Guilty Gear Isuka, Guilty Gear Judgement, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, Blazblue, Hokuto No Ken, Sengoku Basara X
Story: A week has passed
without any word from the small Eastern European kingdom of Villtania. However,
as refugees are found, the United Nations becomes aware of devastation and
ungodly experiments conducted by Villtania's leading sorcerer and scientist,
Raimond. As a result, the United Nations declares an international emergency and
promptly offers a reward to anyone who can stop Raimond and bring order back to
Villtania. A large gathering of warriors attracted to earning the bounty soon
fight to decide who will challenge Raimond.
Review: In Guilty
Gear Judgment, players can re-experience the fast paced action of Guilty Gear X2 # Reload as well
as delve into an all new Guilty Gear gameplay experience, "Guilty Gear Judgment"
which is a beat-em-up, side-scrolling action game that can be played with all 20 Guilty
Gear characters... Similar to the Boost mode found in Guilty Gear Isuka,
players can take their favorite character and be able to battle by themselves or
with a friend (via the PSP's wireless connectivity), through hordes of enemies.
So how does
Guilty Gear fare as a side-scroller? ...Not too bad actually. You can perform most of
each character's special and super moves to mow down hordes of evil creatures.
Unfortunately there's not much of a story in this mode, you pretty much just kill
everything that moves. 
The sprites in Judgment are smaller than in the PSP version of Guilty Gear X2 # Reload,
but still animate smoothly and look great for the most part! It's a fun play
through (especially with 2 players), though still a bit repetitive.
In the portable version of GGX2 # Reload, the sprites and backgrounds look
nearly just as good
on PSP as they do on PS2. Graphically the game still impresses especially
on a handheld system, and the gameplay
and controls are just as you'd expect from the series... It's definitely a solid
port of one of the best versions of Guilty Gear.
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8.5 / 10 |
Closing Comment:
Guilty Gear fans have been given the best handheld version of Arc System
Works' staple series. The slick PSP screen even gives Guilty Gear's graphics a
new light, and never fail to impress and bystanders. 
For "old" or "non" Guilty Gear fans, this package
might just rekindle your excitement for the series, because it's sure as hell
one cool portable package! ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG