Newly translated Dengeki scans show the first Guilty Gear that never was

A fighting game for the PlayStation with a one-hit kill system!! This is the promise made to readers of Japanese gaming magazine Dengeki back in October of 1995 with the first character art and biographies of Guilty Gear. Community translator Sol Radguy has recently published a translation of what is likely the first ever preview of Guilty Gear, showing some stark differences from what would later be known as Guilty Gear The Missing Link when it hit the PlayStation in 1998.

This depiction of the cast is both familiar and bizarrely different, juxtaposing the hand-drawn artwork associated with Guilty Gear’s aesthetics prior to Xrd with CG renders that I can only assume were in style at the time. It’s about 8 pages long, and you can read it on the Internet Archive right now. There’s also a later preview from 1996 with screenshots of a prototype build!

NEW TRANSLATION: Dengeki PlayStation Oct. 1995 – Prototype Guilty Gear: The Missing Link Article, English. The translation is after the 8 pages in Japanese.

Thank you to @Nincopyjasb for providing the original files.https://t.co/Bk1e5DlMGB pic.twitter.com/lgK7JHDD0s

— Sol 🔞 Radguy 🏳️‍⚧️ (@junkyarddogmk69) May 8, 2023

By Shiburizu | May 9, 2023

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