If you’ve played one beat ‘em up, you’ve played them all, right? I mean how many Double Dragon clones can you tackle in one lifetime? I don’t know about you, but I can only take so much Bimmy and Jimmy in my lifetime. But this is different.
The flurry of Sega ports (the Saturn in particular), to grace XBLA this fall, including Sega Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5, continues with October’s release of Guardian Heroes. Combining RPG elements such as leveling up and divvying statistic points, a control scheme as deep as any fighter, and the narrative of a short novel, Guardian Heroes remains one of the deepest beat ‘em ups today, despite being initially released 15 years ago. I mean here we have not one, but TWO Treasure games being re-released within one month of one another, and this one certainly deserves to be part of the trove.
