HCG: "There comes a time when you stumble across a concept — particularly one in a well-established genre, where only the minute changes or tweaks to the formula are given free reign on altering the formula — that just makes complete sense. By sense I mean logical given the natural flow of the game it’s deeply embedded in and clearly taken account of. And by complete, I of course mean “how has no one else thought of this yet?” GUTS, in another scenario, could so easily have been shooed away by veterans and indeed newbies of the fighting genre alike for its comically hyper-violent look and/or lack of an incentive to get invested beyond the genre-standard flair of controller input combos and 2.5D fighting arenas."
