+R is a game I still consider myself 'playing' but haven't touched in a while. The nature of fighting games I suppose. After the first KOF rollback game in late 2020 (2002 UM), which I mashed in for a bit, this game's rollback netcode came to open beta and I was pretty big into it for a while. I already liked Guilty Gear and had been sad about the difficulties with Xrd's online play. +R gave me a whole new appreciation for how good rollback gaming feels because I had somewhat of a better idea how things were supposed to work for Guilty Gear than for KOF, and I quickly realised I didn't want to go back to delay netcode, ever. This kicked off a series of me buying older games as they would get netcode patches and having some of my best fun in fighting games ever, in a period of time where I never got to play in person at all. (I'm still in that period.)

It's a messy game, in fairness, with a lot of weird stuff that doesn't make sense to a first time player, but god it's so fast, you really can just pick it up with a friend and mash away until something funny happens. And I highly recommend you do.