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 |
| Release | Sega SaturnXbox Live Arcade
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| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up, hack and slash, Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Guardian Heroes 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". 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. 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.