Graphics

I'm going to admit; I'm a huge sucker for 2D sprites. The graphics are pretty amazing, I enjoy each character and their unique animations. What impressed me the most was the backgrounds for each stage. Each background had fun little details that gave the stage a little bit of personality. As for the character designs, I liked most of them. Dr. Baldhead is my favorite out of the bunch, but I'll explain later why I like him. May is also a pretty interesting character design-wise. Despite having lots of praise for the cast of characters, Potemkin and Zato=One are the few characters that terrified me when I first saw them. I also hate Potemkin a lot... again, I'll explain later. Wrapping up this Potemkin slander, that ring around his neck seems to be a great setup for a lot of manga jokes, such as in Guilty Gear X PLUS 4koma Kings (DNA Media Comics) and Guilty Gear X 4Koma Kings (DNA Media)

While not related to the game itself, I want to praise some of the artwork for the game. The promotional(?) art for Dr. Baldhead is one of my favorites, and if you read too deeply into it, it leads into a sad story.

So there's my praises. Now onto some complaints. Because this game is of the 2D sprite work, there are times were sprites get... weird. Sometimes you can't tell what is what. The timer is one of my complaints. At first, I didn't see the HUD's timer and thought that it was just part of the decorations, until during mid-match, where I saw it slowly moving. Another issue I had was with the character Baiken, as it was hard for me to tell if she had one arm. Which, yes, she does.

Graphics rating: 9/10
Sound
As much as I normally praise music, I'm not so positive on this game. There were a few tracks that I did enjoy, such as Suspicious Cook (Baldhead's theme), Holy Orders (Be just or be dead, Ky Kiske's theme), Unidentified Child (May's theme), and Writhe In Pain (Milia Rage's theme). Though, personally, I'm not a huge fan of the screaming, loud gutiars in a lot of games, and especially comparing to the other Guilty Gears games, such as XRD and Strive, which have a few more tracks that I enjoy more. (I don't know how many times I've listened to Marionette, Ups and Downs, Jack-A-Dandy, Alone Infection, etc.)

Straying away from the music, the voice acting is pretty decent if not compressed. The voice acting does give the characters a bit more personality and can be pretty amusing at time. But it can also get a bit redundant and old. (especially if you spam the same moves....