Guardian Heroes

Guardian Heroes
North American Sega Saturn cover art
Developer(s)Treasure
Publisher(s)Sega
Designer(s)Tetsuhiko Kikuchi
Masaki Ukyo
Composer(s)Katsuhiko Suzuki
Norio Hanzawa
Platform(s)Sega Saturn, Xbox 360
ReleaseSega Saturn
Xbox Live Arcade
  • WW: October 12, 2011
Genre(s)Beat 'em up, hack and slash, Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Guardian Heroes[a] is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up video game developed by Treasure and released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game console. The game resembles Final Fight or Golden Axe, but with RPG elements. The development team called it a "fighting RPG".[3] A sequel was released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance entitled Advance Guardian Heroes.

The game allows players to alter the storyline through their actions, such as choosing between a number of branching paths, leading to multiple endings, and killing civilians and enemies, leading to changes in the Karma meter.[4][5] The music was composed by Nazo² Suzuki and Norio Hanzawa. Hideki Matsutake, a former member of electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, is credited as playing the synthesizer for the score. It is considered a cult classic of the beat 'em up genre.[6]

  1. ^ "sega-saturn.com - news". sega-saturn.com. 1997-06-06. Archived from the original on 1997-06-06. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  2. ^ Lomas, Ed (July 1996). "Checkpoint - The month's events and software releases at a glance. June-July". Computer and Video Games. No. 176. Future Publishing. p. 48.
  3. ^ "Guardian Heroes". GamePro. No. 85. IDG. October 1995. p. 95.
  4. ^ Kurt Kalata, Guardian Heroes, Hardcore Gaming 101
  5. ^ Top 20 Scrollers (Part 5), Game Observer
  6. ^ RPGamer's Guardian Heroes Review Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, RPGamer


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