Franchise file / Daisuke Ishiwatari
Guilty Gear
Arc System Works' own fighter
Guilty Gear is the fighting franchise created by Daisuke Ishiwatari at Arc System Works, first released in May 1998. It moved from hand-drawn sprites to cel-shaded 3D with Guilty Gear Xrd.
- 1998
- First game
- 1
- Series
- Daisuke Ishiwatari
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Sprite era. The line opened in 1998 and grew through Guilty Gear X, X2 and a run of revisions and side games, all before the move to 3D.
Start with Guilty Gear X2Your next late night
The essentials
A legacy worth revisiting
The detour that set the story.
Guilty Gear 2: Overture stepped away from traditional fighting games and became the first entry built on 3D models. Its story still counts, laying the ground for what Xrd and Strive went on to tell.
- 1998 to 2006
- Sprite era
- 2014 to 2021
- Xrd and Strive
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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