Guardian Heroes' XBLA updates detailed

I saw you were using a meme to describe your emotion and I was like >:O then I saw you made fun of said meme at the end and I was like :D

All I can say is, :D

Would :S work? Can we turn it into cautiously optimistic?

So it's Treasure, then, and not Backbone? That's great news. PSN version plz?

the fact that Treasure is handling this in cooperation with Sega makes me very happy, indeed. like their previous port (Ikaruga)- i'm sure this will be a wonderful port and i hope everyone will support this game with a purchase on release day. i can't wait!

The graphics look great, what's this against smoothed sprites?

Such an awesome game. I still have the original along with my Sega Saturn and break it out from time to time. There are so many branching paths, endings and storylines it borders on the ridiculous. Not to mention you could play as every character in the game in the arena battle mode.

This day made me feel :( but then as I read that first paragraph it made me feel :D So thanks, Joystiq :)

I know what my next XBL purchase is going to be!

I bought this game for $120 off eBay 5 years ago and it was worth every penny. I don't care if it becomes worthless now because the greater good has been served; everyone can enjoy this masterpiece.

At least, everyone with a 360.

I still maintain that keeping your levels and experience through multiple playthroughs (a-la Castle Crashers) is something they should also add to the port. It's my recollection that this wasn't featured in the original Saturn game, and felt it sort of defeated the purpose of having level stats if you were just going to lose them every time you started over...

@Microsoft and or Xbox Fanboy dude...this game was cocaine for me and I was only like 14!

So when is it coming to PS3?

I have my CRT and S-Video cable all ready -- for authenticity, of course.

Guardian Heroes on XBLA made me like this. XD

I hope they're at least going to put in some high-res textures. Those old background textures look like shit. And personally, I'd rather have the smoothing on. Upscaling sprites meant for a 320x240 display does not equal HD resolution, no matter how they try to spin it.

Guardian Heroes was great because it was silly fun. It was a pixellated mess and wasn't balanced very well but it was still playable. Heck, it was probably better *because* of its flaws.

To whoever is porting this, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Magic effects need to still be contagious. It was always so much fun to throw a fireball above an enemy, have it boomerang back and hit them, catch them on fire bouncing into you and having *you* catch on fire because of it.

I would say to not even try to balance the arena but I will just say to have a mode where you can pick only the 'normal' characters, a mode where your character gets randomly assigned, and a mode where you can pick whatever you want like in the original game. There better not be some BS achievement where you have to beat a bunch of player controlled dragons using only the old man whose only attack is coughing.

Please please please let us switch between the new voices and the old corny ones! I know I'm not the only one who has immense fondness for hearing Nicole shout BAREEAAAH.

Remember, for some of us we are going to be purchasing this simply for the ease of not grabbing the Saturn out... and the reason we'd do that is nostalgia.

They even changed Randy's hair from brown to green in the non-flitered version