Guardian Heroes Gets Portable Update, Screenshots

Posted by simoniker on Friday June 4, 2004 @07:22PM 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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Good stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-04 19:50 · Score: 3, Interesting

I've got the saturn version of this. While the graphics are pretty heinous (even for its day), this is some serious entertainment. It was a pretty unique fighting system, very much like Street Fighter combined with Final Fight (in that it was side scrolling but had serious deep combos), and also the ability to control an additional NPC that helped you progress. The story was pretty run of the mill fantasy, but all in all it's one of those games you can constantly return to when you find nothing new or fun currently being released. Great game. Very hard at times. (And LOADS of characters in VS mode).