, or ''Guilty Gear DS'', is a fighting game of the ''Guilty Gear'' series for the

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. Modeled after ''

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'', its gameplay allows up to four player fights. It was the first versus fighting game for the Nintendo DS to be released outside Japan. ''Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers'' is also the first ''Guilty Gear'' game so far to have mini-games, ranging from the Balance Game where the player must help a chibi

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balance the falling items with her plate, to Venom's Billiards, which puts the player and opponent in a pool-style game. The boss of the game's Story and Arcade modes is Gig, an immense insect-like monster with an angel attached to its bottom half. The game has 21 playable characters in all, but only twenty story modes, as Robo-Ky has no story mode.

Characters

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* Testament *

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* Dizzy *

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* Zappa *

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* Robo-Ky

Reception

''Guilty Gear Dust Strikers'' received "mixed or average reviews", according to

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References

External links

Game Page on IGN
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