History VideoGame / GuiltyGear

At the Arc Festival 2013, it was confirmed that a brand new entry with an updated engine to match with the ''[=BlazBlue=]'' series, titled ''Guilty Gear [=Xrd=] -SIGN-'', is announced to be in development. You can see the announcement video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg here,]] also confirming that aside of Sol and Ky, Millia and Eddie will return.

At the Arc Festival 2013, it is confirmed that a brand new entry with updated engine to match with the BlazBlue series, titled ''Guilty Gear [=Xrd=] -SIGN-'', is announced to be in development. You can see the announcement video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg&feature=player_embedded here]], also confirming that aside of Sol and Ky, Millia and Eddie will return.

** ''Guilty Gear [=Xrd=] -SIGN-'' (????)

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse - The survivors of Japan's destruction are now sequestered in a colony as "international treasures." It is implied the government is actually studying them for their affinity for "Ki" magic, the rarest and least understood of the five different magic elements.,

* WillfullyWeak - Three characters do this. Slayer does it to give his opponent a sporting chance, but Sol and Dizzy probably ''have'' to do it in order to avoid killing everything within a five-mile radius.

In March of 2012, Arc System Works finally announced news on a new installment... which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version was finally released on December 4, 2012, having been delayed due for as-of-yet unexplained reasons. ASW later announced that in Spring 2013, an update will be released to fix glitches and improve the online interface. Most importantly, it will also allow the updates from ''R'' to be applied to the game as a separate (and free) piece of downloadable content.

* {{Transhuman}} - Gears were intended to be the next step in human evolution (hence "the missing link" that is the first game's subtitle). As the Gear conversion process [[MixAndMatchCritters applies a patchwork of various animal genes to the base organism]], only a handful of Gears [[WasOnceAMan who were originally human]] retain any semblance of their humanity in a physiological and anatomical sense.

->'''''[[GratuitousEnglish Heaven or Hell? Let's Rock!]]'''''

!!Duel 1. Let's Rock!

* FracturedFairyTale - How this series can be seen. Let's say Sol is the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]], Ky is the KnightInShiningArmor, Dizzy is the DamselInDistress, Testament is the KnightInSourArmor, Potemkin as the GentleGiant, Sin as the RebelPrince, Johnny as the {{Pirate}}, and I-No is the HotWitch.
** In ''GGX'' the [[DamselInDistress damsel]] is a [[JailBait 3-year old]] PersonOfMassDestruction being hunted by the cast and gets protected by a [[KnightInSourArmor goth knight]]. However, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the dragon]] gets past the protector and beat the shit out of the damsel. But for some reason, the dragon spared her life. The damsel is then rescued by the GentleGiant and the KnightInShiningArmor (but probably they fought her first too). The damsel is then entrusted to a captain of a {{Pirate}} group full of lolis.
** In ''GGXX'', the damsel lost control of herself and is trying to kill everyone because the HotWitch pushed her off the pirate ship... a thousand feet from the air. Depending on the ending, she calms down after the dragon beat the shit out of her again.
*** We also learn that the KnightInShiningArmor is supposed to be dead by that time. Because of the knight's death, the damsel is an evil bitch with the goth knight as her evil minion and the dragon is her rival. But since the witch traveled time with her magic power from her magic guitar, she changed the future by saving the life of the KnightInShiningArmor.
** In ''[=GG2=]: Overture'', we learn that the blond knight who became a PuppetKing and the damsel married... ooops NO! [[SecretRelationship They're not officially married!]] Therefore they produced a [[HeroicBastard bastard son]], and because they had a bastard son, they give him to the dragon for safekeeping.
*** This all gets eye-crossing if one considers the damsel [[HalfHumanHybrid to be a dragon in her own right]] (a play on the [[DragonsPreferPrincesses princess and dragon]] motif common in myths and fairy tales), never mind the still-unanswered possibility that the damsel is the daughter of the dragon himself.

ArcSystemWorks later created a proper SpiritualSuccessor to ''Guilty Gear'' in ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger Blaz Blue: Calamity Trigger]]''. In May 2011, ArcSystemWorks [[http://www.siliconera.com/2011/05/24/arc-system-works-now-owns-the-rights-to-guilty-gear/ successfully bought all the rights]] to the ''Guilty Gear'' IP. Though when they plan on continuing the series and if they plan on keeping it a fighting game remains to be seen.

In March of 2012, Creator/ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment... which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version was finally released on December 4, 2012, having been delayed due for as-of-yet unexplained reasons. ArcSystemWorks later announced that in Spring 2013, an update will be released to fix glitches and improve the online interface. Most importantly, it will also allow the updates from ''R'' to be applied to the game as a separate (and free) piece of downloadable content.

* ArtEvolution: Sol's hair has gotten much, much spikier since the first game in the series. There's a few other changes as well, such as Axl becoming less muscular and Testament becoming (marginally) less feminine.

* AwesomeButImpractical - Instant Kills. Sure, they end the round automatically if they connect, but most are ''seriously'' difficult to hit with. If they know it's coming, it's damn near impossible, unless the opponent is either stunned. In that case it's somewhat doable.

** Justice's [[WaveMotionGun Gamma Ray]] super. Possibly the most damaging super in the game, but it has a painfully long windup time and burns a full meter.

* [[BareFistedMonk Bare-Fisted Big Man, Kung Fu Girl, and Vampire]]: Potemkin, Jam, and Slayer, who don't carry weapons. Basic attacks used by weapon attack buttons [[ExtremityExtremist act as occasionally stronger punches and kicks]] for them.

* CapcomSequelStagnation - Guilty Gear XX has seen four "special edition" rereleases so far (with yet another one slated for summer 2012), though each version does add to the complexity of the game.

* CharacterDevelopment - A great deal of it comes to fruition in Overture. Sol goes from IneffectualLoner to GeniusBruiser and CynicalMentor. Ky start off as a KnightTemplar and rival to Sol to being his ally.

* ComboBreaker: The Counter Burst.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Instant Kills, you either have one connect and win or miss/is blocked and you lose your Tension bar. Add to the fact that they can't combo and it's easy to see you don't see them used often in TournamentPlay .

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Bridget.

* FantasyKitchenSink - The ''Guilty Gear'' universe is pretty much the real world, except that [[AllMythsAreTrue every mythical or supernatural creature from all cultures is true]] and considered normal. Some stages have skeletons of giants, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons are being used as restaurants,]] [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes catch fish,]] [[HumanoidAliens aliens peak,]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires observe humans,]] [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts appear]] and [[WitchSpecies witches fly.]] Not only that, magic coexist with ki or chakra, though they are entirely different from one another.

* FracturedFairyTale: How this series can be seen. Let's say Sol is the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]], Ky is the KnightInShiningArmor, Dizzy is the DamselInDistress, Testament is the KnightInSourArmor, Potemkin as the GentleGiant, Sin as the RebelPrince, Johnny as the {{Pirate}}, and I-No is the HotWitch.
** In GGX the [[DamselInDistress damsel]] is a [[JailBait 3-year old]] PersonOfMassDestruction being hunted by the cast and gets protected by a [[KnightInSourArmor goth knight.]] However, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent The Dragon]] gets past the protector and beat the shit out of the damsel. But for some reason, the dragon spared her life. The damsel is then rescued by the GentleGiant and the KnightInShiningArmor (but probably they fought her first too). The damsel is then entrusted to a captain of a {{Pirate}} group full of lolis.
** In GGXX, the damsel lost control of herself and is trying to kill everyone because the HotWitch pushed her off the pirate ship... a thousand feet from the air. Depending on the ending, she calms down after the dragon beat the shit out of her again.

** In GG 2 Overture, we learn that the blond knight who became a PuppetKing and the damsel married... ooops NO! [[SecretRelationship They're not officially married!]] Therefore they produced a [[BastardBastard bastard son]], and because they had a bastard son, they give him to the dragon for safekeeping.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The Guilty Gear universe is an aftermath of the said scientific (magical) innovation. Gears are biological weapons that were powerful enough to stand against humans for a hundred years and had almost pushed humanity into extinction in the Drama CD's.
* GenreBusting: Overture. It combines Hack n Slash with RealTimeStrategy, and is inspired by [[VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]], albeit with much greater control over armies.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Leopaldon in ''Isuka''.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Towards Gears and the Japanese in general. Ky also gets involved, though he is a victim.
* GratuitousEnglish- PLENTY.

* HumansAreBastards - Gears were originally [[spoiler: intended to be the next step in human evolution, hence the name "Gear." Instead they were weaponized, with Sol being made into a Gear against his will.]]

* JumpPhysics: Everyone can double jump, save Chipp, who can triple jump. In addition, there are mid-air dashes.

* {{Leitmotif}}: With the exception of Guilty Gear Isuka, each character has their own distinct tune when fought.
* MagiBabble: Comprises roughly 90% of ''Guilty Gear 2'''s dialogue.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Buried in MagiBabble is many rules and guide lines of how magic was discovered and how it's used in the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' universe, such as The Twelve Steps and The Backyard from which the world's "source code" can be played with to create magic.
* {{Magic Knight}}s: The members of Sacred Order that includes Sol and Ky.
* MirrorMatch: Even has three theme tunes for this: "Fatal Duel", "Nothing Out Of The Ordinary" and "Ditto!"
* MouthFlaps (sort of)
* NaturalSpotlight- The Grove in ''Midnight Carnival''

* NintendoHard - Some of the missions in the series can be incredibly frustrating due to overwhelming odds stacked against the player, e.g. Mission 50 in Guilty Gear X2/Mission 100 in Reload, Normal Ky at 50% Health and poisoned vs Gold EX Sol with regeneration.

* NonLethalKO - with the exception of Justice in the original Guilty Gear, after each battle every single character seems perfectly all right and usually capable of speech, even if the battle ended with an Instant Kill, which appears to end in death. (Including Faust's in GGXX, which looks like he set off a nuclear bomb, Bridget's, which launches the opponent into the moon, and Slayer's, which apparently launches the enemy ''out of the galaxy.'')
* OpenSecret: The creators provide many examples of this. From the way the series progressed, secrets are revealed and by the rational mind of the audience, some things are just too obvious even if they aren't officially declared yet.

*** I-No: Violent, lustful, sociopath, unpredictable (Id)

* PressXToNotDie: How to avoid getting IKed in GG1 or GGAC if Generations GG mode is active.

* RandomPowerRanking - Not actually the character's power, but how much of a threat they pose to the Postwar Administration Bureau.

* RuinsOfTheModernAge: In some stages.
* SceneryGorn: The GGX trailer, parts of the manga and the AD 2173 stage.

* ScienceIsBad: Technology is branded as "Black Tech" and is banned for destroying nature. People used magic instead but eventually, also abused it.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains - Subverted in two ways; first, "good" characters like [[RatedMForManly Sol]], [[AbsoluteCleavage Baiken,]] [[ShesGotLegs Millia,]] and [[StupidSexyFlanders Anji]] and villainous characters like Zato-1 and [[LadyInRed I-No]]. Second, characters like [[DudeLooksLikeALady Testament]] converted from evil to good.

* TheBattleDidntCount: Sol and Slayer pull this all the time.

* ThemeNaming - Some of the characters (and a lot of the attacks) are named after popular metal bands and songs. Additionally, most of the Jellyfish pirates are named after months of the year.

* TitleDrop: The Guilty Gear is none other than [[spoiler: Sol Badguy. Slayer and That Man reveal the meaning to the title, implying Sol is the only Gear capable of sin, because he was the first, and therefore, once human, while all others after him were created for war.]]
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse - The survivors of Japan's destruction are now sequestered in a colony as "international treasures". It is implied the government is actually studying them for their affinity for "Ki" magic, the rarest and least understood of the five different magic elements.,

* TrueCompanions: The Jellyfish Pirates.
* UpdatedRerelease: The series is particularly notorious for this, almost rivaling the ''Street Fighter'' series for how many revisions one of its games has had though some other games have had one or two.
** There's been ''Guilty Gear X Plus'', [[NoExportForYou which was Japan-only]] and featured, amongst other things, the shadow and gold versions of everyone, Kliff and Justice as playable characters, a Mission mode and Story mode, further fleshing out ''GGX'''s rather complex story.

*** ''Accent Core Plus'', a console-only version which re-added Story mode (now set after ''GGXX'''s original story mode), Mission mode, Kliff and Justice, as well as fixing some bugs, adding extra Force Breaks, changing some moves and other such things.
*** Now, there's ''Accent Core Plus ''''R''''', which will rebalance the characters yet again, including adding Kliff and Justice to the default roster (they had to be unlocked in ''Accent Core Plus'', barring the PSN/XBLA port which had them available from the start) and making them viable for use in tournaments. This version will also be released for arcades.
* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: Kliff Undersn's taunt creates physical letters, which bounce across the screen and inflict some damage. Knockouts with this in tournament play have become a particularly humiliating form of CherryTapping.

* WhamEpisode: ''Guilty Gear 2: Overture''. It's set after a 5-year TimeSkip (with some rather big developments happening during that missing chunk of time), all characters gone except for Sol and Ky who are redesigned, and all the other settings are gone.
* WillfullyWeak: Three characters do this. Slayer does it to give his opponent a sporting chance, but Sol and Dizzy probably ''have'' to do it in order to avoid killing everything within a five-mile radius.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore - All of the games which got ported from Japan to America and Europe, most notably the [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/919961-guilty-gear-isuka/images Isuka]] installment.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent - Overture drops nearly all the bounty hunters, and instead focuses on the story of The Gears. Of all six playable characters, five are Gears and one is human (Ky.)

** Or you're playing the first game or using "Generations GG Mode" in Accent Core, in which case [=IKs=] are basically {{Quick Time Event}}s.

* BadassArmy - The Servants in Overture, and they come in different types.

** As of AC, [[spoiler:Anji may have became a villain. Though that ends up subverted that after one direct look at Baiken, and [[HeelFaceTurn he called it quits]] and rejoins Baiken.]]
* TheSevenMysteries - Of the 8 Jinki from the Outrage set, only 4 of them are shown: Sol's Fuenken, Ky's Furaiken, Anji's Zessen, and Slayer, who has a dagger which can cut through a forbidden beast.
* ShoutOut - With an [[ShoutOut/GuiltyGear own page]].
* SpeedStripes - during various special moves
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish - XX's announcer (Heaven or Hell...Duel 1! LET'S ROCK!) Accent Core went for a different announcer.

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse - The survivors of Japan's destruction are now sequestered in a colony as "international treasures". It is implied the government is actually studying them for their affinity for "Ki" magic, the rarest and least understood of the five different magic elements.
* TrueCompanions: The Jellyfish Pirates

* WhamEpisode: ''Guilty Gear 2: Overture.'' It's set after a 5-year TimeSkip (with some rather big developments happening during that missing chunk of time), all characters gone except for Sol and Ky who are redesigned, and all the other settings are gone.

* ''Guilty Gear XX'' (2002)

** ''Guilty Gear Petit'' (2002)

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version was finally released on December 4, 2012, having been delayed due for as-of-yet unexplained reasons. ArcSystemWorks later announced that in Spring 2013, an update will be released to fix glitches and improve the online interface. Most importantly, it will also allow the updates from ''R'' to be applied to the game as a separate (and free) piece of downloadable content.

* MagicAIsMagicA: Buried in MagiBabble is many rules and guide lines of how magic was discovered and how it's used in the GuiltyGear universe, such as The Twelve Steps and The Backyard from which the world's "source code" can be played with to create magic.

* PowerTrio- Has some of these, though characters are more complex than their representations:

** Assasins

* WhamEpisode: ''Guilty Gear 2: Overture.'' It's set after a 5-year TimeSkip, all characters gone except for Sol and Ky who are redesigned, and all the other settings are gone.

''GuiltyGear'' is a FightingGame series created by ArcSystemWorks. The franchise started out as a cult classic, but [[VindicatedByHistory got noticeably better attention]] when its sequels were released.

[[caption-width-right:342:[[IncrediblyLamePun X marks the spot]]]]

* {{Dude Looks Like A Lady}} : Bridget.

* FantasyKitchenSink - The Guilty Gear universe is pretty much the real world, except that [[AllMythsAreTrue every mythical or supernatural creature from all cultures is true]] and considered normal. Some stages have skeletons of giants, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons are being used as restaurants,]] [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes catch fish,]] [[HumanoidAliens aliens peak,]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires observe humans,]] [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts appear]] and [[WitchSpecies witches fly.]] Not only that, magic coexist with ki or chakra, though they are entirely different from one another.

* FracturedFairyTale: How this series can be seen. Let's say Sol is [[OurDragonsAreDifferent The Dragon]], Ky is the KnightInShiningArmor, Dizzy is the DamselInDistress, Testament is the KnightInSourArmor, Potemkin as the GentleGiant, Sin as the RebelPrince, Johnny as the {{Pirate}}, and I-No is the HotWitch.

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse - the survivors of Japan's destruction are now sequestered in a colony as "international treasures". It is implied the government is actually studying them for their affinity for "Ki" magic, the rarest and least understood of the five different magic elements.
* TrueCompanions - The Jellyfish Pirates
* UpdatedRerelease: The series is particularly notorious for this, almost rivalling the Street Fighter series for how many revisions one of its games has had though some other games have had one or two.
** There's been Guilty Gear X Plus, [[NoExportForYou which was Japan only]] and featured, amongst other things, the shadow and gold versions of everyone, Kliff and Justice as playable characters, a Mission mode and Story mode, further fleshing out GGX's rather complex story.
** Guilty Gear XX is particularly infamous for this, having 5 (soon to be 6) available versions.
*** The first was #Reload, which doubled the amount of Missions from 50 to 100, as well as featuring a new, improved and rebalanced version of Robo-Ky with a completely different moveset, as well as some balance tweaks.
*** The next was Slash, which was [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]]. This version altered several characters' movesets, several of the stages were largely altered (Compare the XX original version of Sol/Ky's stage to the Slash version, where the back wall and door of the stage are now largely wrecked) and most notably, added two new characters: A.B.A from Isuka and a new version of Sol called "Order-Sol", both as a playable character AND a final boss.
*** The fourth version was Accent Core, which managed an overseas release and also featured Order-Sol and A.B.A, marking their overseas debut leading to a slight MarthDebutedInSmashBros effect for the former. This version changed the interface on a larger scale (With a new version of the "Destroyed" popup when an Instant Kill was connected), featured a new, less popular announcer and new gameplay options such as Force Breaks, slightly more powerful attacks characters could perform at the cost of some Tension meter and Slashback, a form of parrying. Several new stages were also introduced and the ones existing already for A.B.A and Order-Sol were altered as well, not to mention the further balancing. The "Generations" modes were also introduced, allowing players to play characters with styles and gameplay similar to GG1 or GGX, though at the cost of other features. However, Kliff and Justice were removed from the roster, and there was no Story or Mission modes to play through. Furthermore, some {{Game Breaking Bug}}s necessitated the release of...
*** Accent Core Plus, a console-only version which re-added Story mode (now set after GGXX's original story mode), Mission mode, Kliff and Justice, as well as fixing some bugs, adding extra Force Breaks, changing some moves and other such things.
*** Now, there's Accent Core Plus ''R'', which will rebalance the characters yet again, including adding Kliff and Justice to the default roster (they had to be unlocked in Accent Core PLus) and making them viable for use in tournaments. This version will also be released for arcades.

* WhamEpisode- ''Guilty Gear 2: Overture.'' It's set after a 5-year TimeSkip, all characters gone except for Sol and Ky who are redesigned, and all the other settings are gone.

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version was finally released on December 4, 2012 due to unknown issues. The console versions are Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but in Spring 2013 the changes from ''R'' will be available via either a patch or DownloadableContent.

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version has been delayed to December 4, 2012 due to unknown issues. The console versions are Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but at some point in the future the changes from ''R'' will be available via either a patch or DownloadableContent.

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the {{Xbox 360}} version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version has been delayed to November 1, 2012 due to unknown issues. The console versions are Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but at some point in the future the changes from ''R'' will be available via either a patch or DownloadableContent.

->''[[GratuitousEnglish Are you ready? It's cool! Let's enjoy a great showtime!]]''

->'''''Heaven or Hell?'''''

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. The arcade version was released on September 20, 2012, and the Xbox360 version was released on October 24, 2012. The PlayStation3 version has been delayed to November 1, 2012 due to unknown issues. The console versions are Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but at some point in the future the changes from ''R'' will be available via either a patch or DownloadableContent.

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. It had an ambiguous "Summer 2012" release date originally, but the arcade version has finally been released on September 20, 2012, with a proper release date for the console version already confirmed: October 24, 2012. The console versions will be Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but at some point in the future the changes from ''R'' will be patched in.

In March of 2012, ArcSystemWorks finally announced news on a new installment...which turns out to be yet another new version of ''XX'' for Arcades as well as PlayStationNetwork and XboxLiveArcade, called ''[[OverlyLongName Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R]]''. This updated version of ''Accent Core'' will feature online play, all of the features of the original console version of ''[=AC+=]'' had, and the boss characters Kliff and Justice finally made playable and tournament-viable for Arcades. It had an ambiguous "Summer 2012" release date originally, but a proper timeframe has finally been confirmed: October 2012. The console versions will be Vanilla ''Accent Core'' on launch, but at some point in the future the changes from ''R'' will be patched in.