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Narr:
Take the speed of Capcom fighters and combine them with button inputs of King of Fighter games, then throw in as many rock references as humanly possible, and the outcome is Guilty Gear.

The music is pretty awesome rock stuff.  (I have the soundtrack, no bull.)  And the majority of that?  More rock references.  For example, the "main" character of the game, this dude here:
http://www.guiltygearx2reload.com/sol.htm
is like, the Queen reference of all Queen references.  His stage music is called "Keep Yourself Alive II" (there's a queen song called Keep Yourself Alive).  His real name is Frederick, after Freddy Mercury.  His psudonym he goes by is a reference to the Queen song, Mr. Badguy.  I believe lots of his attacks deal with songs of other artists.  (The vampire guy, Slayer [reference to the band Slayer] has lots of attacks taken from Queen lyrics.)

One of the stages is like the entire discography to Led Zeppelin (stage is called Zepp).  Ky, the Ken to Sol's Ryu, has a final move called Ride the Lightning ahile another guy, Testament, has a move called Master of Puppets.

I could go on, but I think you get the drift.

I suggest that if you like fighters, check out Guilty Gear X2.  (Isuka is mostly for fans of the series, to be honest.  It's not that great.)

Gryff:
Sure! It's a very Japanese one on one 2D fighting game. It's not too unlike Street Fighter in appearance, although the characters are way weirder (A girl who's actually a boy and who fights with a yo-yo, a doctor who fights with a giant scalpel and wears a paper bag over his head, a witch with an electric guitar etc.).

The fighting system is pretty cool too: it allows you to kind of create your own combos by cancelling recovery animations at the expense of your overdrive bar, and encourages you to be aggressive by giving you more overdrive the more you attack.

Plus, the music is way cool.

GGX2 has got to be up there with the best 2D fighting games in the world right now.

Kai:
Wait... Testament, which is also a thrash metal band, has an attack called Master Of Puppets? Could they not have like, looked up one of Testament's own songs?

The Mighty Mopdecai:
Hmmm.. It doesn't surprise me to find that the Questionable content forum love a game which includes fighting and music.

Narr:

--- Quote from: Kai ---Wait... Testament, which is also a thrash metal band, has an attack called Master Of Puppets? Could they not have like, looked up one of Testament's own songs?
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It fits the character. He's, like, a vampire-ish looking guy with a scythe thingy that changes form.  He turns the scythe into a huge key thing, stabs the enemy, and if it connect, gives him powerups on some of his other moves.  Just because a guy is named for something, doesn't mean that EVERYTHING relating to the character has to do with one band.  It's just that their name does.  Sol's kinda the only exception to the rule.  Oh... and all the characters that belong to the Assassin's guild have something to do with Iron Maiden (Millia-Rage, Eddie, and Venom).

It's just a cool game.  One of the first ones that really captured my interest, when it comes to fighters, because every character is just so out there.

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