Guilty Gear Dust Strikers, or Guilty Gear DS, is a spin-off fighting game in the Guilty Gear series for the Nintendo DS and the thirteenth installment of the series. Generally modeled after Guilty Gear Isuka, it allows for up-to-four player brawls.
Design[]
Compared in style to Super Smash Bros., battles in Dust Strikers occupy both screens as stages have four platforms,[2] which come in different "floor types", and allow up to four characters to fight in battle royale-fashion. Characters have two bars—the Stamina and Tension Gauges, both of which start at full—and, similar to Isuka, a "Soul" or life, as there are no rounds. Items that grant power-ups will appear randomly during the match.
The button layout, by default, consists of: Weak Attack (Y) and Strong Attack (B), which when repeatedly pressed will do a Gatling Combination; Dust Strike (X), used with 
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to attack other platforms; Special Attack (A), used alongside the directional pad to perform special moves; Psych Burst (L), which consumes Tension to escape and resembles the series' usual Dead Angle Attack; Roman Cancel (R), and Throw (B + Y). There is no crouching as guards are done with . Move-wise, characters play like their Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload versions, with only a few new normal moves designed for reaching between platforms.
Dust Strikers offers the following features: Arcade Mode, Story Mode, VS Mode, Challenge Mode, RK-Factory, Mini Games, and Options. Regarding Story Mode, all characters except Robo-Ky have a story path of six stages, wherein they interact and fight with four other characters in the first five, then a one-on-one boss fight. Cutscenes may be repeated between different characters. Arcade Mode is similar, although with single opponents selected at random until the boss stage. VS and Challenge Modes are for battles between players.
Seven touch-screen Mini Games are featured: "May Dolphin Show", "Hit Down", "Venom's Billiards", "Balance Game", "Yo-Yo Polish", "Note Capture", and "Sword Master". Scoring high will unlock techniques in RK-Factory, thus allowing players to customize Robo-Ky's command list (much like Robo-Ky II in Guilty Gear Isuka).
Story[]
Summary[]
The story is about a new Gear called Gig suddently appearing, being possibly made by That Man. None of the stories talk about or interact with it other than at the very end of Story Mode.
Characters[]
- Playable characters
- Non-playable characters
Development[]
Material[]
Trivia[]
- It is the only game in the series to be originally released outside of Japan.
- Story endings reuse art from Guilty Gear X Plus Story Mode, except those for the characters that debuted in Guilty Gear XX. They have entirely new ending illustrations drawn by the same artist, Atsushi Kawasaki.
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