Advance Guardian Heroes

Overview

Advance Guardian Heroes is a side-scrolling beat 'em up developed by Treasure and published by Ubisoft Entertainment for Game Boy Advance.

Gameplay

Advance Guardian Heroes is a side-scrolling style 2D beat 'em up. Unlike the previous game in the series that had players moving between three separate planes, in Advance Guardian Heroes players can freely move anywhere around the screen.

Attacks and Abilities

Players can do a base melee attack with the B button and a jump with the A button. While in the air players can do a downward attack by pressing the attack button.

There is a block that can be used by holding the R button. Pressing the attack button while holding the block button will allow players to use a special attack. These special attacks can be cycled through by pressing the L button.

Stats

When defeating enemies, crystals will be dropped which can be collected. When enough of these crystals are collected players can upgrade their stats. The opportunity to upgrade comes between stages.

There are seven different stats that can be leveled up:

• Vitality (VIT) - Increases the amount of maximum HP.
• Mind (MND) - Increases the amount of maximum MP and the recovery speed of MP.
• Attack (ATK) - Increases the amount of attack damage done.
• Defense (DEF) - Increases the resistance to enemy attacks.
• Magic Attack (MATK) - Increases the amount of damage with magic attacks.
• Magic Defense (MDEF) - Increases resistance to magic attacks and affects counter timing.
• Mobile Power (MOB) - Increases movement speed and speed of filling the anger gauge.