I'm genuinely so happy about this scene, genuinely such a good way to portray Bridget's story and explain how Bridget transitioning is not "HER GETTING GROOMED" but instead her going out into the world and finding herself and what girlhood and identity itself means to her.
Having Giovanna, the most aggressively confident and painfully straight woman in guilty gear look after and mentor the lesbian girl failure that is Unika is truly a visionary move on Daisuke Ishiwatari's part.
I often think about how Ky and Dizzy really named their daughter "Unique!" Now that they can have a child between human and gear publicly which makes her special and all while naming their chud son "Sin" during the time where his birth was like a war crime
It's crazy how much y'all hate strive to the point where y'all are genuinely rather kill off your fav franchise than have to risk getting wallbreaks in blazblue.
"I used to be so attracted to Bridget in XX when I was a kid growing up in a Christian conservative household, I didn't know she used to identify as a boy until Strive came out. I think her journey with her identity and discovering herself led to me questioning the same things, +
Sometimes I think about SolAxl and how they are two boomer ass men in a time completely divorced from their early life and how these two would probably make really corny references only the these two would get and I just get a bit soft.
"I find Sol and Axl's dynamic so fascinating... I love the way they interact, how you can tell they're able to find comfort in each other because they come from a similar time, and how playful and friendly they are with each other (esp. coming from Sol). Shipping aside, I wish"+
I think my ideal Sin design is something like this.
Like more of a fusion of his older and new designs, maybe a darker jacket? But I do really like the idea of keeping sin with these really clear white and blue colours. Also i just love his xrd pants.
Venom's theme is brilliant because it captures every aspect of the character so eloquently.
Whether it's his new life as a baker, his past traumas as an assassin, his sexuality, his bond with Robo Ky, it captures all of it while talking like it's still just about pool and numbers
The guitar and the back and just the overall message of this part of the song just really fit Venom’s character and his story and it’s just so peak I love Venom
Honestly after reading the replies to this.
It genuinely just cements the fact that Strive is the scapegoat of the FGC, the GGST community is near identical to the rest of the FGC but it's easier to mock because it's younger queer people rather than the equally miserable veterans
The distinction Bridget draws between her being seen as "cute" (obvious allegory for being seen as a girl) prior to her transition and that didn't feel right because it was forced onto her compared to her finding her own "cuteness" later on is so nice man.
Genuinely hope Dual Rulers isn't the last time the entertain the idea of a guilty gear anime, really hope we get more after Dual Rulers, especially now that they finished with a lot of the exposition dump
//DUAL RULERS SPOILERS
Casting Nerville as less "scheming politician who swirls his mouchache evil-ly" and instead leaning more into "trauma has radicalized this man into absolute delusion" goes kinda hard, i think his design is very misleading ngl
I think the most maddening part about tourists saying "Strive killed GUILTY GEAR BECAUSE OF WOKE" is the fact that Xrd almost ACTUALLY killed the franchise by having so few sales. Did it even hit 1 million copies sold?
Regardless they couldn't afford the eng dub for revelator 😭
It's not only an amazing exploration of both Bridget's very unique circumstances and relation to girlhood, but also a really good exploration of transness and identity as a whole and the importance of reaching your own conclusion about who you are
You masculinize May to reaffirm Bridgets feminity
I masculinize May because I think the fuckass pirate raised by Johnny should be rough, buff and a menace, we are not the same🚬🚬
a guy asked if they would get skins and stuff for edgerunners and ken awkwardly said that he can't answer but they are working on something but its probably not gonna be in conjuction with lucy
ALL WHILE IT HELPS UNIKA FIGURE HER SHIT OUT.
It's a really good scene in a really good episode that genuinely bumped my opinion of Dual Rulers way up.
Happy to note that once again paradigm appearing in a guilty gear piece of media consists of insane, delusional yapping for multiple minutes followed by sol telling him to shut up.
Glad to report that Paradigm still only causes problems to the main cast everytime he is included
I don't even want more games like strive like that anymore and sincerely hope Blazblue retains it's execution and mechanics but y'all are acting like Strive removed RC and became a 1 button game, it's really not that serious..
Im reading night of knives out loud to my partner and I have to pause every time Zato speaks because he either says the freakiest shit ever or the most male manipulator shit to Millia then she tells him to low-key die and he goes "my bad bbgirl" like he didn't ruin her life.
I genuinely can't put into words how much I adore Guilty Gear as a series and as a story.
It feels almost like it was made for me, whether it's the designs, the story, it's themes, it's aesthetics, the gameplay, the music
UGH EVERYTHING ABOUT IT APPEALS TO ME SO MUCH RAAAAH
God I love Sol and Axl's dynamic a lot
Never been a solaxl shipper tbh but I get people that are because maaan Axl being Sol's only real connection to a time that feels so distant now is so fucking heartbreaking and awesome ugh, I love their bond
Y'all should talk more about Ramlethal as a character, myself included, she is genuinely a brilliantly written character and her journey to where she is in Strive is genuinely so sweet.
In the last major in my country, there were 3 people who cheered for Leffen while the entire venue was cheering for a season 3 Slayer to win, let's be so serious rn
I FINALLY FINISHED THIS
I don't REALLLY love it but whatever I have to go
I loved @Borcheim 's May design so I tried to draw her with it.
WAAH IM TIRED
I think people either forgot or haven't actually read the story because the way people downplay Delilah as if she isn't directly related and on a similar level as Romeo.
SHE LOOKS SO FUCKING COOL HELLO?!!?!?
Can't wait to see her gameplay, say "LOWKEY I MIGHT MAIN UNIKA" play Unika for a week then to back to playing Sin.
Venom low-key right as fuck about Millia in this one but he is also so in your face about how much he wants Zato carnally that you almost forget he isn't just jealous.
Daisuke as far as I know didn't write DR, only overlooked some of the process
You already know if my goat was in the writers room we would have gotten magical girl realness..
I haven't gotten the game yet but from what I heard it's just that salvatore is a bit difficult and a bit awkward which is what's keeping his play rate low.
Like I think it's a bigger commitment to learn how to play ganacci compared to the rest of that cast
Every arguement made in defense of "why strivers suck actually" in the replies is either a thing every other fgc does or a barely disguised homophobic statement.
I ain't seeing nobody say Tekken players need to die when they are straight up ONLY LIKE TEKKEN and nothing else.
Johnny is arguably one of the few members of the cast with substance, he adds a lot to Sin's side of the story but MAN DOES HE OVERSHADOW THE REST OF THE CAST BY JUST OUTSHINING THEM IN EVERY EPISODE HE IS IN FOR SOME REASON
I love xrd to death and I do hope one day some of its dna returns to the franchise or that strive allows itself to be a bit more like it and all but let's not pretend that XRD didn't fail so hard that they explicitly made a game that strayed as far away from it as possible.
I be seeing street fighter players salt post about having to actually play footsies in the game that coined the term, a bison straight up whining that he gets punished when he whiffs buttons and how they are killing the character with that yet nobody says "smh SF players man"
Not to be too yaoi pilled but I also really liked Ramlethal pointing out how Robo Ky and Venom are visibly close despite their "tsundere"-isms and how the story portrayed the two as a duo that compliments eachothers abilities and enable eachother to do great things.
Every fighting game community is dogshit and annoying, the day we stop acting like it's a strive thing and not an overall problem with the community as a whole, maybe then we will actually make any progress.
I genuinely don't know why so many of the transphobes paint Goldlewis like "THE predatory brainwashing groomer stand-in" when all bro did was "Hey girl you should chill. Oh, you a guy? You should chill but also you should be yourself, repressing yourself sucks. You a girl? Cool."