THE GUNGRAVE G.O.R.E. SWEEP IS REAL 

Despite its issues, this game's very existence is a miracle. I hope we continue to see AA titles like these see the light of day.

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Happy to see you back Cvit, love your videos and this one was no exception. I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to commend Iggymob's efforts in supporting G.O.R.E post-launch. I adore this game and a big reason for that is because of the amazing job Iggymob has done in supporting this game post-launch. They could have easily abandoned the game following it's unfortunate yet expected poor reception and likely low sales. However, they instead stuck to their guns and have continued to support the game with impressively thorough patches that have adressed practically ever minut issue I had in my inital hard playthrough and issues that I saw others complaining about online. Furthermore, they have listened to the fans and added much requested features like auto-fire, a cell-shade filter, improved visual flair on some demolition shots, and a fully-playable Bunji! I am extremely impressed by their dedication to the game and their lack of ego as shown by their willingness to outright remove certain, particularly rancid platforming and QTE sections. All I would like to see added at this point is a fully-playable Quartz though that would likely take much more effort than it did for Bunji. Regardless, these developers are awesome!

Every once in a while a game comes out only one guy on RU-vid is fit to make the review for. This is one of those games and you're that guy. I wasn't disappointed. This game is defiantly on my list along with the first.

Gungrave is such a blast from the past, the first one is like 20 years old already

If you're struggling on bosses on Hard/GORE difficulty try using the demolition shot that slows down time and just wail on them

Was wondering when/if you'd get around to covering this game. For a good long while you were the only game reviewer I knew of who'd talked about the other 2 games so I was increasingly curious to know your thoughts on this one. The statement "It makes me want to snap the disc in half, but I can't stop playing it" is something I relate to more than can be expressed with words. So many games in my collection elicit that kind of vibe from me.

I enjoyed G.O.R.E. a fair amount, and I do have a remarkable amount of respect to RED Entertainment for actually giving this game a decent shot and trying to update certain flaws. But there are a few core issues that shouldn't exist, even when trying to emulate the feel of the first game. The length is easily the most glaring issue as it is WAY too long, which is a giant issue from OverDose. It's not as bad as OverDose as the gameplay is much more solid, and there aren't 3 barely different campaigns, but it still persists. I most definitely agree with the fact that the upgrade/progression is overly bloated and requires too much grinding to complete. The second biggest issue is the schizophrenic difficulty. I've heard horror stories of the train level very early on, and I have had a couple of issues, but my first warning sign was level 6. It was, and still is, overly difficult. Bunji is decently fun to play as him, and Quartz is not, but that hardly matters as there is a total of 3 levels where you play as them. I would give the plot shit for being INCREDIBLY dull and shitty, but this has kind of always been the case with the only story that was somewhat interesting being the first, and that's more because of the anime adaptation. This is a very middling game, but one that has been improving itself and trying to go after an unfortunately niche demographic. Luckily, it's on gamepass, so even more people have immediate access to it.

"they keep updating their games to fix my complaints with it 😡" Pretty based of them not gonna lie. I'll keep a close eye on this one, thanks!

Wow. They really tried to fix a lot, huh? I also played it at release and dropped it cause I was so annoyed by it. The perks made me feel like I had no chance till I grinded and certain enemies and bosses drove me mad! I'm very interested in going back and trying again now after this video. Thanks for covering the changes and other issues to keep in mind.

As the resident Gungrave representative I can indeed give this video the Harry MacDowell certified seal of approval

I didn't like this game when it came out and I'm still pretty hesitant to pick it back up even with all the patches released. You've highlighted pretty much every issue I had with the base version. If the devs do add remappable controls I'll give it another try but that'll be after I beat Nier Replicant, Vampire The Masquerade and Code Vein.

After watching you stream this and go back and forth on how you felt about it, it's nice to see all your thoughts come together in a cohesive way. Excellent video as always Mr Cvit.

This game is everything i wanted and then some. but the pacing and use of its characters really had issues (quartz and bunji only got two levels and a half between them which, granted for quartz given she's melee only, is understandable). I feel a lack of focus, but the heart's definitively in the right place. and i love it for that. I kinda wish we had access to dlc skins at a later date, tho.

THE CHARGE SHOT HAS LEVELS AS OF THE MOST RECENT PATCH!!! IF YOU LET GO OF THE BUTTON EARLY IT DOES INDIVIDUAL SHOTS!!!!!!!! THE LONGER YOU HOLD IT THE MORE CHARGED SHOTS IN A ROW YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Playing it now with all these patches its an easy 7.5/10 and very fun to blast through. Here’s hoping the Devs get to make a sequel, all things considered they’re still more competent than plenty of triple A devs

I do think this game looks terrible BECAUSE of its bad art direction. Its not just bland its a huge letdown from the original.

I got this on the switch yesterday and I'm loving it, a proper blast from the PS2 past

As someone who played the game through every single patch except the most recent one in April, here are some things you missed: - In the same patch that removed the laser grid section, all areas where you have to do platforming have been redesigned so you don't have to do that anymore. This even applies to the final level. - Your ability to break shields quicker is dependent on the melee attack power stat. At max level, you can break shields in a single hit. - You don't have to fully charge the multi-charge shot to use it. As long as you got some charge, you'll still perform some of the attack. Though I do agree that it was too slow for Grave to fully charge it up when it was first introduced in a patch (thankfully, this was fixed soon after). - One of the more recent patches allows you to stock up to 10 Demolitions Points, which makes it much easier to get S-Ranks.

Janky unpolished but fun I’m probably one of the few people who played on day one and beat it a day after the patch seeing this video now kinda makes me want to go back

gungrave is def one of my top 10 games

I did play the PC version through gamepass. I can say the sound effects haven't had the same issues you experienced. I fucking loved this game, recommended it to my friends regardless of how jank it is just because games with this much soul do not come around nearly enough.

I think out of the ones you have planned, I think your Soulstice review/general dos and don'ts of action game design is the most interesting, and could be a great tool of reference for indie action game devs, similarly to how Shadiversity's videos on Medieval swordfighting in games are, for fantasy games.

this is incredibly nut worthy. thank you based god Cvit, for the beautiful bounty that is this video, and may you get yourself some well earned rest.

Who cares about yow hard it is to unlock to play as Bunji? At least we can play with him. There's plenty of games that would just not let you play as Bunji other than that one level. Not even ask you to pay for them, just straight up you still can't play all of DMCV with only V, Dante, or Nero...even right now. Or how there's no reason why MGS2 shouldn't have you able to play all the game as Snake. The Bunji criticism is understandable, but they made a fix that no one else has ever done before. They get plenty of credit for that alone. Of course playing as Quartz more would be nice, but she would need a major overhaul.

Personally, I think a barebones arcade style game like GORE could REALLY sell with online 3 player co-op. And maybe playable legacy characters as hidden unlocks....and even playable legacy bosses like Zell and Fangoram.

This video finally got me to bite the bullet and order a physical copy of G.O.R.E for PS5. After loving the original and loathing Overdose, I'm very interested to see how this one holds up for me. Great video!

Turbo Mode is cool, but nothing beats the catharsis of spamming the button when Grave shoots and does baller ass moves Also the fact that Gunlock isn't in this game is severely disappointing to me, that song fucks

Hello. I've only watched the gungrave anime, which I loved. What the fuck is happening. Thank you, please.

This review is great! It's clear that you like the game but still give it a fair criticism.

One of the things I really disliked about the game is the sound design and the lack of more movement tech, it makes the gameplay feel too stiff, also the lack of good melee attacks.

I was having a ton of fun with this game till I hit the second boss which just kicked my ass into next week, it feels like it wants you to use mechanics the game doesn't actually have. It's so unabashedly PS2 era though, holy shit, even for its flaws its the exact same shit you'd see in a AA release of the time. Maybe I should go back to it.

This is the perfect video discussing the dichotomy I find myself with regarding this game. Every little positive and negative were things that stuck out in one way or another. This was incredibly concise Keep up the great work man!!!

I just beat this game tonight. You pretty much articulated everything I feel about this game perfectly, though respectfully that train level is still pretty shitty. The signs are too potent, they don't even stop when you use a demolition shot, so you can die mid-cinematic. I feel as though that only made it through testing because nobody on the dev team thought to use demolition shots on the train level. I guess that should be my indication that's not the way to beat the level but I still find it to be lousy level design. Thank you for covering the Gungrave games so damn well

Gore difficulty is actually not bad if you beat the other difficulties prior to it since it unlocks upgraded equipment with higher fire rate and higher demolition shot accumulation. This game is definitely a blast from the past and definitely started playing it a lot more when it became playable on steam deck.

I love this game but I understand why people don't xD

this is exactly my type of shit, yea the cutscenes and voiceacting are absolute ass but the gameplay is fun and the music goes hard af, don't need more from a game

Good lord, the Asian Dev scene is a tragedy. For every Elden Ring there's 6 Wanted Deads, 5 Babylon Falls and 2 Gungrave GOREs. They don't have the passion for AAA games anymore. Look at the last Contra game. Fuckin atrocious.

the top left corner of the video: 💀

Can't wait until you re review the switch version lol

Bought this on release, loved it even with the yank. Now that I know about the patches, I should go and have another playthrough at it. Thanks for informing me~

I got the game, but at first I thought it was based on anime I saw sometime ago, only to learn that it’s other way around and the games came out first.

Hey just finished watching you trash talking your way in to Yugioh and thought if after 2 years you were on going to continue the video series is literally soooo entertaining

I had some issues with it but it has no competition and is well designed 95% of the time so it's more than worth it. I bought 3 copies. Also $50...lol...right...

Glad games like Gungrave Gore: Evil West, Wanted Dead, No More Heroes 3, and Soulstice exist. I missed the PS2/GC/Xbox years of gaming.

When was the 1.0 update? I beat this at the end of January and didn't run into more than half the bigger issues. I never had that many shielders or missile guys to deal with on normal mode. I only ran into an issue in the last 2 levels and had to go to easy mode, but that's because I didn't want to grind for upgrades and had almost no aoe options.

i made the horrible choice of trying to beat the game on hard mode PRE 1.0 patch before beating easy or normal. it was horrible but i got so close before the patch finally came out and i realized you’re intended to beat easy and normal for the gold guns aswell as the better coffin. ive since 100% the game (excluding the brandon heat “skin”) which i was actually working on getting

I literaly just went to your channel to see when your last upload was 🤣

As someone who played this game on the Xbox Series X, I can tell you that the sound effects weren't as bad as in the PS5 version.

Platinum it this morning not a bad game hope they add more dlc and characters from the universe hell I’ll take a horde mode

If it's had a ton of patches I might check it out again. I haven't played the first one but it looks like my style of game. The thing that put me off with this one was using photorealistic graphics instead of the timeless stylised look of the first one

i played a lot of gungrave overdose. more than the first game cause i actually owned overdose. so if this game is better than i wont regret the 50 dollars purchase.

Kind of disappointing that Gungrave still hasn't got a good game that isn't jank yet, despite its anime adaptation is a certified classic.

Im a dying hard fan of soundtracks and pains me to hear the whole intro of the video and shazam failing to find it lol.

As bad as it was i was surprised iggymob stuck with it and started fixing what went wrong. Gungrave vr was hell and they left that to an unfair fate. But what they have done with gore even at the start showed me that this was the game they wanted to make even with songs like time to kill and falling into the black you can tell these guys had a vision and did more for their jank as hell product to keep it alive....unlike actblizz. I wanna see what iggymob can do in the future with great interest hell they might even give us an re spin off game where we can juggle a hunter and do an aerial rave on it.

Don't know anything about the game other than what I watched from that Gun grave anime (that could of been so much better huh?) But I enjoy the videos you make so thanks for that!

“Lets the bodies hit the Gore “

I played this dog sht on game pass lmao I feel sorry for everyone who bought this xD

Still can't believe that this is a real game. Glad that it exists though. Thanks for the coverage.

Oh, those sound issues are inexcusable. Half the enjoyment of action games are the sounds of lasers and punching things.

I loved this game. I got platinum trophy

The first Gungrave is best ever, nothing tops those vibes

This thumbnail got me feeling SO HIGH

I didn’t play the ps2 games and I still enjoyed this game.

Its a hot mess, but its a hot mess I want to spend money on FFFFFF

Who up GOREing they worm

I watch this video at least three times a week.

Cvit, would you recommend the game to a beginner to the Franchise?

This game is just like Stranger of Paradise, an action masterpiece hated by nerds who cry about getting filtered by the combat cause they can't comprehend the sheer beauty of it

For anyone interested the anime is actually pretty good in my opinion, accept the animation gets really bad sometimes but the overall story is somber and a bit depressing.

I was wondering when you'd get around to reviewing the newest Gungrave game - just in time to have an amazing friday night watching!!

THIS GUY GETS IT! Seriously, thank you for pointing out the positives of this game, instead of piling on insults like so many other reviewers.

Had this for a couple of weeks but haven't gotten around to it(still got one more level of agony to clear in Overdose). Good to hear it's at least better than that. Btw, what'd you order from Wendys?

The opening on top of how much up and down stuffs you have to suffer and slog through with the knowledge of previous games in mind to tie in with your judgement experience to this game makes it resembling of the non-existent GUNGRAVE M.O.R.B

Can we talk about how the battle musics are a collab between the DMC and Battle Network composers

Games music needs a lot of reworking. Completely remove that boring looping song that plays in all levels. Doesnt fit at all. Just play constant upbeat hype music. They cant fix this now but it was a stupid idea to diverge from nightows art style. Im really not a fan of this generic semi realistic anime art style.

Am just disappointed that I can’t play other characters from the “millennium” era.

On the platforming section with containers - if you kill enough enemies gate will just open, you can skip that shit

Cvit just dropped I’m calling off work and watching this video on repeat!!

I’ve been hyped to see your review of GORE since it came out, you didn’t disappoint

This indeed is a game

Game is boring its fake devil may cry 😢

Jank shit with soul: EDF, Gungrave, dark souls/bloodbourne/elden ring. Triple a garbage with millions on its budget: Forespoken, saints row(reboot). DO I NEED TO SAY MORE?

This overview was great i just cleared the Gungrave anime adaptation today. Had me in tears and was effective definitely peeping GORE.

Damn ,I just watched the anime,after playing first game a bit Came back to the game,and got dissapointed by its trope,and final lvl and boss But satisfied by gameplay Downloaded the Overdose sequel for PS2,bought G.O.R.E And then this video Also:why not make a game, faithful to the anime Where also we got playable Harry in some moments for example during the *before the elevator* part

Miss these janky AA(at best) titles. Reminds me of the good old Ps2/Xbox times with the huge amount of bargain bin titles. Finding a gem is always more exciting than being disappointed by yet another "10/10" oBen world or 2D pixelvomit roguelite/metroidvania copypasta

Should have put reworking music in the patches list.

LMAO all that wacky gimmick shit was in the original version??? that's SO FUNNY. it's amazing how essential a few patches were to making the game a fun playable experience.

The original at its time was by R.E.D and one of the very first games to use cellshading in a beautiful way plus the story of part one and two which was handled by yashirow nightow himself

Man i had to tear myself away from ishin to watch this. Glad to see another cvit vid

31:50. So turns out a lot of games (including this one) do have the option to turn off controller sounds, but it's a ps5 system setting. You need to turn down the sound all the way down and the sounds will play through your TV or AV speakers instead. I tested it myself. Die in this game with the setting all the way down, and Quartz yelling Grave would play through my AV speakers instead. Just note that I said a lot. Cause there are some that have it in the game options like RE4make or Death Stranding

I think i found out what it is. As much as i love visual fidelity, 16:9 feels always wrong to me. playing a game in 4:3 you only see your char and everything is "tighter" on the screen without it beeing overloaded. I don't know why, but old games "looked better". My Gf is younger and has no nostalgia with older games and even she sees this and agrees with it. I think we are on a wrong way somehow.

I didn't mind the train that much, but the crane... That was rough, played it in Xbox one... So imagine if it jaja was jankiest than play 5

Huh they patched everything and added bunji? Dammit I fucking wish I didn't 100% this game at the release window

Could have been way better, IGGYMOB sucks but at least it's another Gungrave game and that's the most positive thing I can say about it.

Game would've been better imo if it was about the arc that Brandon and Harry had when climbing the ladder of Millennian. It was such a good story, then it was ruined by undead cowboy.

Big fan of the anime, later loved the first game, i couldn't find overdose, and bought gore day 1... Man i loved it then hated it then me, i maybe will give it a shot later taking acount the patch, sounds like the patch adress my problems except for the horrible levels in the crane and the platforming, hey i still plan to bought the other skins for grave so even if i get really disappointed im kind a mindless fan

Just play the games, review them. Then pin a coment on the video about the updates n changes to gameplay Otherwise youll keep delaying awesome videos wich is everybody's loss

played it on gamepass did not know it has a 50$ price tag. thats too much, but the company only experience being a similar vr game makes the gameplay make much mroe sense. I felt that the game came from an arcade

You seem really pumped for the latest "whatever" thats on xbox gamepass. But I appreciate the energy 👌