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Guardian Heroes Gets Portable Update, Screenshots

Posted by simoniker on from the rah-rah-rah-treasure dept.

Thanks to TotalVideoGames for its article discussing the announcement of the Treasure-developed GBA title, Advanced Guardian Heroes, a "sequel to the much-loved [cult Sega Saturn] title" According to the story, "up to two players [can] link up and take on the Story mode, whilst four players can link up to see who is the best in the VS mode", and there are also screenshots of the game and an official Japanese-language homepage available, and the portable side-scrolling beat-em-up from the uber-cult developers, also makers of Ikaruga, Gunstar Heroes and Radiant Silvergun, is "scheduled for release in Japan" for Game Boy Advance on September 16th, with no Western release date yet announced.

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  1. Too bad I don't have a GBA...! by Intellectual+Elitist · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Guardian Heroes was easily the greatest beat-em-up of all time. The game deftly merged elements from beat-em-ups, fighting games, and RPGs. The story mode branched furiously, and ultimately let you ally yourself with any faction in the game as you careened toward one of five different endings. You also got to issue orders to an NPC helper through most of the game.

    The arena mode was unparalleled, letting up to 6 players duke it out using any character in the game (good or bad, grunts or bosses -- over 40 in all, complete with special moves). You could set up any combination of teams, tweak the attributes of each character, have some characters be CPU-controlled -- whatever you wanted.

    Even though the graphics were a bit chunky, the game was an amazing thing to watch in action. The view would zoom in and out based on what was going on, and the magic and tech effects were larger than life. Huge beams would scorch across the field, and explosions would fill the entire screen and hurl people hundreds of feet in the air. The combat was absolutely insane.

    It's great to see a sequel coming. Too bad they're doing it on a system I don't own instead of bringing the game to next-gen hardware that could really do it justice...