Guilty Gear creator, Daisuke Ishiwatari, has said that the next game in the series will have simpler mechanics to pull in more players to the fighting game's audience

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"After releasing Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 it's clear what we need to improve on. The key is to win over more users because of the complex controls," Ishuwatari told Destructoid "But if we implement everything the game will no longer be Guilty Gear. It's hard to balance out all the improvements. One thing that we have to do in the next installment is to reduce the number of systems [mechanics]; it's too complicated for everyone. You can expect that in the next game."Talking about the Guilty Gear series, he said, "it's important for us to maintain the people we've already won over. At the same time we do want to expand the userbase so more users are coming in. Daily, we're trying to figure out what our balance point is to satisfy our users that are already with us and new users."Ishiwatari was also asked to comment on the possibility of a Switch port for Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, and answered that it's not on the cards right now."One of the goals for Guilty Gear is achieving high quality graphics. Specifically on that point the Nintendo Switch might not be a good match, but that's not our final conclusion. We're still working on that."Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 is one of the eight games selected for the EVO 2018 lineup alongside Arc System Works' other fighting games, Dragon Ball FighterZ and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle.EVO 2018 will take place in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino from August 3 – 5.

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