The Broken World of Guilty Gear - The Missing Link 

Reminds me of that video by core-a gaming about a theoretical fighting game with an instant win button

Hi Torkip

Hi chap

Guilty gear missing gatling

Honestly that's a chad way to go about executing one's own vision lol

And it worked

It makes a lot of sense when you remember most of the arcsys founders worked on the last blade series.

And this is the main reason to why I love Daisuke

Truly an inspirational story lmao. Someone needs to make a documentary about it.

My Man!

Ah the ground based footsies gg is known for

quick someone show LK this vid, we found it!

Guil'y geh *

Axl looks so aggro in this game it's scary

It was also made for a console that couldn't handle 2D fighters very well which is why you never saw any version of Street Fighter 3 or Guilty Gear X on that console

It's so funny that they went from this Axl to schoolboy-shorts Axl.

There is a way to trick the PSX to run 2D games better… make a basically flat 2-4 or so polygons square and place the sprite in but _that didn’t happened_ The only experiences Daisuke and co had is _that they played KOF and probably Fatal Fury_

And the best music, for most characters.

Dont forget to use the taunt charge first to ensure you just delete your opponent with that 4x DI DP

Wait, Dragon Install fucking _stacks_ in this game? That's actually hilarious.

@@CherryPixelBun Volcanic Viper is always at level 3 when you're in Dragon Install. That's why every subsequent game has the DI heavy DP deal multiple hits, it's a reference to this game.

"its not a depth that people would care about" its Fun. and also dr baldhead is in it. liar.

So because one character can counter it, means that the whole game is immediately redeemed?

@@tootsie_ nah i think gg1 is a very fun bad game though .) it was more of a fun fact from a baldhead kamioshi about a fun bad game i really love

Adding on, Sol also have Bandit Revolver which have I-frame for some reason, so you can input it as Justice is firing her big god damn laser and goes through it and counter her.

@@shootingrock7213 gg1: you can dodge the stupidest attack in the game with the best and worst characters only

That's just overture. Jack-o references the game

@@Living_Target Justice references the game. Jack-O is just a meme.

@@davekaye5483 Justice died twice before they made overture, and hasn't been in a game since, what do you mean?

@@Living_Target justice was in rev 2 though

@@Living_Target the story of rev 2

ArcSys treating PC players like shit as expected. You can't even buy the soundtrack if you don't have a PS4.

Yep, it's fun but bad

That's right, Kusoge games are broken but still extremely fun

It seems like the kind of game that can be insanely fun with friends as long as everyone knows what they're getting into from the start

I mean, if you can just kind of erase from everyone's brain the knowledge of how to do taunt cancels and infinites, that's like half the bad gone right there...

You could play with an ignited bag of dog shit with friends and it would probably still be fun

That sounds like the story of the Strive soundtrack. I feel missing link had very character fitting songs

@Donkey That sounds more like what BlazBlue was intended to be before Guilty Gear's abscence led it to become a fighting game.

Shit now I want a GG JRPG

@@etmutant8350 You probably don't.

@@bloorb0569 I think I would. They could make it an ARPG like Tales.

When you consider that MvC3 was made by the same people who did Bloody Roar & Castlevania Judgement, it actually does make some sense why a lot of its system mechanics are janky and poorly implemented. They might have experience, but it’s not exactly experience as being stellar fighting game designers.

@@CrossfacePanda Huh. Noted. I have never played _Castlevania Judgment_ (or _Tatsunoko vs. Capcom_ for the record), but I have also never heard anything good about _Judgment_ either. I have played _Bloody Roar_ though, and while it's been many years, I don't remember that game being that bad despite its issues. Maybe it got far worse past the second game since I think I only played the first two. Shrug. (All I know is that it's basically definitely dead like every other property the current husk of Konami unfortunately has in its clutches. A moment of silence please.) The most annoying thing to me is that we'll never know if Capcom would fixed this seemingly glaring issue, like they at least tried to do with X-Factor, in that mythical updated version Yipes apparently implied would have existed if not for Disney's greed. It would have been nice to fix TACs and probably *literally* the worst throw-break system I have ever seen among a few other things, but instead we got _MvC: Infinite_ dumped on us by Overlord Disney before they killed *that* too in barely over year. Sigh. Oh well.

@The Damned Bloody Roar to me was always an extremely clumsy, not all that well thought out series of games with an extremely cool concept behind it. Still casual fun, but lacking in polish and depth compared to Capcom, SNK & Namco’s offerings from the same time period. Imo, it’s Japan’s version of Mortal Kombat: not exactly ”bad” games, but janky feeling, with a gameplay design that seems to lack in-depth understanding of what makes fighting games good (specifically thinking of old MK games, though I’d say the ”jank feel” still applies to modern MK).

@@CrossfacePanda Hmm...I see. That's definitely a fair assessment from what I remember of the games outside of them being *far* more fun to play by one's self compared to the _Mortal Kombat_ games with its telepathic, cheating A.I. at times. It does fit with _Bloody Roar_ arguably being one of those "XTREME!" 1990s game series even though it wasn't as bloody, much less as gory, as _Mortal Kombat_ was/is. I guess that makes it the fighting game equivalent of _Twisted Metal_ then: a fun but overall clumsily executed series of a good concept that spawned several games but still never really went anywhere and just eventually vanished. It's a great shame that the _Bloody Roar_ series will never get any chance for more polish with the current Konami situation and whatever has been going with that company for the past decade or so. At least with the greedy House of Mouse, we'll likely get another _MvC_ game eventually--though its quality I would worry for--once they finally drag The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and the other Marvel properties kicking and screaming into the MCU to maximize profit (and pseudo-monopolies). Meanwhile _Bloody Roar_ is currently just stuck being wasted potential or at least doomed to gather dust in current Konami's vault even for the people who thought those games were good mechanically on top of enjoying them.

what TACs

True

Pro Xmen vs Street Fighter players will say the same thing specifically about that game as well. "A game so broken, it's balanced." Everyone has a major glitch you can exploit and everyone has wacky infinites.

Its the PS2 HNK fighter

How many virgins is a single Leon worth...?

At least 50

Leon probably just sacrificed himself to himself.

@@tornadoandy123 I would say around 75?

I can assure you at least one, cause it was me, but damn was it worth it.

And the IK's are just Demon's

@@Fizz-Q that's more like the game's super, since any special is IK anyway Functionally, it's a super throw

@Awawawa CM Exactly. Not only does it cease to be a game for the player getting trapped, it gets pretty dull for the spectators too. Once you know how the round is going to go and exactly how the rest of the combo is going to look, the hype is gone.

@@therealbahamut Sounds Like Skullgirls

@@StubenhockerElite Saw a tournament round of Skullgirls where someone started up a combo. The other guy picked up his water bottle, took a drink, put it back down, stretched a bit and STILL had about 20 seconds before the combo killed his character off. He KNEW he was dead and he KNEW it was gonna be awhile. Don't get me wrong; I like Skullgirls for its style, but when a tournament player knows he has time to grab a drink between combos, something is wrong.

You just reminded me why I stopped playing mvc3 online. I pretty much memorized Dante and zero's infinite.

Dont get wobbled 🤷‍♀️

Melee ICs have to hit four wobbles to win. In case the repetition wasn't enough, GG1 IKs win after a single input if the opponent doesn't counter.

@@SuperLuigiKart64 thank you

I think most people will agree that it doesn't hold up. It's like a steam engine. Pivotal in the field it was in and made history, but absolutely no one will want to use it now

@@seokkyunhong8812 SF2 is the 3rd highest grossing arcade game of all time, behind Pac Man and Space Invaders. It held up plenty.

Well I mean at the time combos we're not that for players at time just defeat your opponent and that's it

@@shaunmcisaac782 that's not how holding up works dumb dumb.

@Dr.Sir Bruce Armstrong Mother Fucker The Third “I think it’s still pretty fun” But you back up this argument by comparing it to fighting games of the time? That doesn’t really prove your point

and that it wasn’t even discovered until recetnly

@@jojosventure4531 yea the og game had no mention of it but the re-release had documentation about it in its help menu

Yeah, that Sol ff+K infinite? It's not. It's a self death sentence in the corner because the opponent can tech, nail you in the grounded recovery just at the time for a good jump-in, and go for a charge cancel infinite.

omg multi

Good old basketball game

Almost fainted looking at Petshop

Honestly HFTF was fine as long as Petshop isn't played

@@Bubbble_Bear i have played hftf for a little bit and still never played against a pet shop player so imo perfect game from one of my favorite series

@@EMAhubris Probably because Pet Shop is an autowin you have to invest time in and is banned in tournaments 99% of the time also it's kind of taboo on some players to play Pet Shop (understandably)

Absolutely, and God bless them for making it, cause this is the funniest game in existence

For those interested, this game is called ultra fight da kyanta 2, its free on steam, please play it.

1 month later. Strive is fun as hell. So I think the experiment worked out

I think Strive is great, but as a long time Street Fighter player and relatively new Guilty Gear fan, I like to say that Strive is just Street Fighter with Roman Cancels, which funnily enough kind of is a thing in SF4 thanks to FADCs. To be fair, I haven't actually played Strive, my computer isn't strong enough to run it and I decided to buy Plus R instead of Xrd because it was cheaper and had all the characters from Missing Link which was the only game I had played at that point. But I have seen gameplay from Strive and it really looks like a very footsies based game that happens to have some stuff unique to Guilty Gear, while Xrd and Plus R seem like very neutral heavy games that reward aggresive yet thoughtful play.

Based.

@@calb6109 Ngl works better than therapy

@@bumblerinteractive1554 maybe i should buy this game after all...

nice

That's pretty based

What do ypu mean?

@@Dracobyte just memeing on the general glorification of “grounded footies” Only a joke, obviously that is not the case in most GGs

Meet Again PTSD

play it it's pretty ok

start with Strive when is out or you can play Accent Core +R now is on Steam and the best part it has rollback netcode

@@eliasnicolasmiranda4940 thanks, will do when I have some free time

@Shin Shaman Here's your attention, happy?

I just plated Snk, blazblue, Guilty gear games on my emulators I enjoyed them

Until this video, I legit thought the game actually looked like a bad flipphone recording.

Guess again 😤 im trying to start a tournament scene in the Scranton PA area sometime soon and GG Missing Link is the game that got me and my friends to start playing fighting games and inspired us to try and do something like this

Did they really work on stuff before Missing Link? And Last Blade too?

Last Blade 2 was SNK and also came out after Missing Link (Last Blade 2 released in November 1998, Missing Link came out in May 1998). The only fighting game Arcsys worked on before Missing Link, as far as I know, is Sailor Moon S

Which one? Axl has two supers, and BOTH fail to combo into themselves properly. Axl is a janly character in a janky game.

Pls start with XX or Xrd. Why did you hurt yourself playing them?

@@kyshowman6847 I just assumed Isuka was the first one, tried it, hated it, and never played Guilty Gear again

As janky as the turn button was in Isuka, the game was definitely good fun playing with friends... Especially in 4v4. 😎🤟

Death and Republic, man. THAT is how you introduce a fucking boss.

lol yeah I saw him in the hftf server too

@Awawawa CM nah man, sf2 isn't fun relative to any video games at all, not just modern fighting games

@Awawawa CM is it fun though :/

@Awawawa CM See, that’s the thing: whenever someone compliments street fighter 2, they don’t talk about the mechanics they like or how fun it is to play, their compliments are limited to “it’s the first true fighting game” or “it created the genre”. It might have been a bit fun when it came out, but we can’t judge a game for how fun it was considered 30 years ago, and for a lot of people, it’s a horrifically boring experience with very little depth that a lot of people hate for those same reasons. It’s the game that invented the genre, and should be respected for it, and I do agree it shouldn’t be judged as if it were made today, but… If it came out today, exactly as it is, would you actually consider it remotely good? Would any of your comments make the slightest amount of sense? It invented the genre, but how is that an actual benefit the game has? How does that make it remotely good? If you have reasons to like it, good for you! I’d be interested in you telling me why you like it, I’ve never really seen the fun in it, but maybe there’s something I’m missing, or maybe you just… like playing it. I have no problem with that. But don’t just say “it’s the first” and pretend that adds something to this nothing game. It created the genre and should be remembered and as such, it should be respected as a product of its time, but having the historical context it has and having been considered fun thirty years ago because better games didn’t exist should not be used to say it’s good.

Attacking with the right stick instead of buttons. Max sharpness was green and it depleted fast. There were no farms or ways to grind resources besides going on quests with pickaxes and nets. There were no gathering quests, only hunts and egg/stone carrys. You'd very easily run out of backpack space. The single player final boss was Monoblos and Diablos was a secret boss. Lao Shan Lung and Fatalis were locked to online only. I could name more things, but that should give an idea of how AWFUL the first Monster Hunter game was. And you know what? We still loved it.

Monster hunter 1 genuinely gave me my love of kusoges lmfaooo i can NEVER forget the 5 meal tickets of each type and 5 rathalos AND rathian plates for dragon armor, as well as basarios grinds for actually good weapons LMAO. Also green sharpness as maximum

I mean, with Fatal Fury 2 the supers were not only difficult to pull of but hard to hit as well. This CAN be the case for some supers in this game but for others (Aggressively stares at Millia) It is too easy to just spam and win.

Samurai shodown special moves are hard to pull off too

i think he's just saying it's very abuseable due to the way certain supers work, like justice's or that other homing projectile one

The aligator with a jun and the dog with the farts, what a game

I'm trying to learn it, I was expecting it to be a much simpler game than it actually is and (at least in english) all of the documentation is spread out and when you go to google it yourself you just get a bunch of shit about the SHOW >:( Licensed game struggles

@@LeonMassey Even as someone who knows the show, the struggle is real.