Guilty Gear Iceberg Explained (OUTDATED, READ DESCRIPTION)

[@Vee-the-letter]

Well, this aged poorly. Guh-huh-huh!!

[@BluesM18A1]

so true bestie!

[@autumnoraki]

greed sever

[@Vee-the-letter]

greed sever

[@veg414]

greed sever

[@musicvogeladeline]

greed sever

[@senpaisam9200]

I wish the iceberg included that soulja boy had one of the first copies of guilty gear overature

[@harryvpn1462]

I love that image of he holding the 360 version of overture

[@zero123alpha6]

Wait WTF

[@yami_yomiel]

HE *WHAT*

[@bionicallyacomputer292]

HUH

[@rh7474]

Alot of people who have never researched him have no idea hes actually a huge gamer/nerd. He literally learned how to abuse mislabeled torrents to promote his music.

[@ElricWilliam]

4:16 thats the in game reason, The real reason his name is eddie is because Zato's VA passed away just shortly aftwr X was released and Daisuke didnt want to recast him so they just added the mic effect and reused his voice lines to pay tribute.

[@autumnoraki]

They even paid tribute to him in Xrd Millias design

[@whatheywhathuh1726]

@@autumnoraki wait really? What’d they do?

[@m0ckyzo185]

@@whatheywhathuh1726 I think it might have something to do with her license plate on her hat or smth. I could be wrong tho

[@kyuketsukirook]

Yup, though they didn't reuse Kaneto Shiozawa's (Zato's VA in GG1 and GGX) voice lines in XX. Instead they had the voice of Eddie, Takehito Koyasu, record new dialogue and had Eddie take over Zato's corpse. They didn't reuse Shiozawa's voice lines.

[@ElricWilliam]

@@kyuketsukirook thanks man, I knew i messed up somewheres and would be corrected xD

[@vDeadbolt]

Fun Fact, the reason why you see Baiken smile a lot in Samurai Showdown is because she is technically back home in Ancient Japan. Since no gears has annihilated Japan in the SNK universe, she doesn't go through her edgy phase. And, yes Baiken is over 100 years old.

[@realkingofantarctica]

As someone who has not played Guilty Gear, nor has partaken in the community much, I would like to point out that newcomers to Guilty Gear experience only two portions of the iceberg. The very tip, and the deepest depths. Because, Guilty Gear fans try to show off how hyperbolic the lore is by spouting the most convoluted out-of-context intricacies and getting a laugh out of people's reactions.

[@bionicallyacomputer292]

💀

[@KeyToWite]

"W-what do you mean i gotta play the games to understand the niche things, i want the whole vidieo to be about strive because is saw it at EVO!!!!!!!"

[@rakaneko4229]

As an someone who find guilty gear not long ago its neither Kill wife sad life wife comes again Kill wife.... Or Totsugeki

[@whereisthatbustlingmarketp4227]

I think that goes for most fanbases with "deep lore" *looks at fate*

[@sonicXstarhedgehog]

@@rakaneko4229 Guilty Gear can only be resumed in one word: Totsugeki.

[@shocknawe]

1:26 - He killed Justice, love of his life turned master gear, that’s why he feels guilty. It’s stated in his ending in the first game...

[@polar6066]

he didnt know it was aria till rev2. lol

[@zero123alpha6]

He was a gear who is guilty of betraying the other gears

[@kyuketsukirook]

Sol is guilty because his research helped create the Gears, and the Gears caused countless deaths and destroyed the world. He didn't know Justice was Aria until Revelator.

[@KibuShiyo]

He's "guilty" for all three of those reasons. Betrayed his wife by killing her; Betrayed Humanity by creating the gears and becoming one himself; and Betrayed gears by fighting a war against the race he now is.

[@bonbon8899]

Sol is not guilty because he killed justice, that's a very shallow and simplistic way of putting it. Sol lives in a post apocalyptic version of his world which he is partly responsible for creating. The countless deaths caused by the gears including Justice were all a result of the research he participated in. Thats why he hunted gears, because its his punishment, he wants to erase his sins and his guilt by destroying everything to do with that project. However, to do so he would also have to destroy himself. Throughout most of the series he only sees himself as a monster.

[@misterx1342]

I think an entry that should have been on the iceberg is the fact that Daisuke is South African. There's a meme in the South African Guilty Gear community that Daiskuke does not care about his home country because there are no African region online servers and we have to use the EU servers.

[@MiguelBD]

So, Daisuke is from the same Kingdom Chipp is president?

[@shinbeet.5708]

I thought Daisuke was Nigerian

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

Well you guys got a region now.

[@spktk64]

that bill clinton clip is insane LMAO

[@sleepybinch]

11:46 Idk if this was just explained wrong for brevity but uh, no, they didn't just trade eyes so Ky could dragon install. Sin as a little kid/gear was struggling to control his gear powers so they traded an eye in order to weaken his power a bit and yknow, not leave one of them without an eye. This also allowed Sin a bit of freedom as having a human eye meant he only needed to cover up the gear one, which you can see glow when he uses his abilities, just like what happens with the gear eye his father got.

[@BluesM18A1]

If this is true (and it makes a lot more sense if it is) it was an honest to jah hole in our research. Source?

[@sleepybinch]

@@BluesM18A1 Did some digging around and I think I may have just been duped by someone stating their theory as fact, my bad. There's apparently no confirmed reason as to why they switched eyes, and its never even stated they actually did, only heavily implied by Sol noticing Ky and Sin having an eyepatch over the same eye/side, and Ky then getting Gear powers which show only on that eye and the surrounding area. The source of *this* is Woolie's video which pulled from many official sources but doesn't state individually where he got each fact from: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5eti4mbfs2kj6s One thing of note is I think either woolie mispoke here, or they retconned which eye it was, bc Ky's LEFT eye is the gear one in both Xrd and Strive, which matches how Sin's left eye is normal and therefore doesn't need to be hidden by an eyepatch. Yet Woolie says it was the RIGHT eye that Ky had covered, when that would've been his normal eye.

[@NecromancyBlack]

@@sleepybinch it certainly wasn't done to let Ky use Dragon Install and was definitely done long before Strive. The reveal of Ky having gear powers game at the end of the Xrd SIGN story where he was shot but then healed, stood up and had a red glowing eye. For a long time fan theory was that it came from his relationship with Dizzy but now (and it makes more sense) it's seen as he swapped eyes with Sin for a reason. Or course since this video was made we got more Strive story where we get Sin's hilarious "where babies come from" story which pretty much proves since did get an eye replaced.

[@orbzdaborbz]

"he" ?!!! date:2021 *wipesbrow*

[@AlexDenton0451]

THE ROLLLLLLLBACK THE ROLLLLLLLBACK IS REAAAAAAAAAAL

[@Cassapphic]

We’ve gone from “kill your friends, guilt-free” to biden winning +r tournaments with Chipp, what a world we live in.

[@bassbusterx]

for an early trivia in the iceberg, zato-1's name is a reference to the japanese legend of the blind samurai. Zato-1 -> Zato-One -> Zato-ichi

[@kyuketsukirook]

One reason I can think of as to why there's barely any blood in recent GG games is that Japan has a social stigma against depictions of violence against humans, at least from what I've heard. The removal of blood might be for censorship reasons since these games are played in arcades.

[@kyuketsukirook]

Also, Axl's name being Will is yet another reference to Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses. The real life Axl's birth name was William Bailey, but he hated it and he got it legally changed to Axl.

[@RyanPuffs]

17:06 Well now it does have rollback

[@BluesM18A1]

Welp mission accomplished, the Bill Clinton bit has gone viral this month, likely at least in part due to this video.

[@yellowflower8505]

you seems to got the most obscure stuff in, did you missed the guilty gear pachinko game on purpose?

[@BluesM18A1]

@@yellowflower8505 It's kind of a fact of life that any popular Japanese game will have a pachinko spinoff so I never bothered looking into it to see if it has anything interesting beyond "this exists"

[@MissingMeep]

@@BluesM18A1 it's cannon.

[@quithsturge3398]

@@BluesM18A1 Yup, it leads into Xrd if I remember correctly. Only seen it in WoolieVS recap series tho

[@boxatron8010]

Xrd now has rollback the rollback is real

[@spookysableye]

Really great video! I didn't realize how many games were actually ported, and the music trivia really fascinates me. Also GREAT narration voice bro you're a natural

[@Robeebert]

O. Sol's Dragon Install Sekkai is a flex like Jam's Tousai Hyakuretsuken. The timing isnt very precise either, you just hit the buttons in the right order as each attack lands as if it were any basic gattling

[@HSEJM14]

The Zako-Dan were made for Isuka's GG Boost mode, a beat em up mode. They were the generic mooks you fight, hence their name. There's 6 of them, but only Zako-A, Zako-B, and Zako-C are """playable""". As they were made to be npcs you fight in a beat em up mode, they're missing a lot of features (such as blocking, bursts, backdashing, supers, etc.), though it varies by character. Zako A and the pompadour Zako are sprite edits of Axl, Zako-B and the one with the moustache are sprite edits of Sol, and Zako-C and the female with the eyemask are sprite edits of Millia. There's also a different version of the female Zako wearing the eyemask in the Robo Leopaldon that you have to destroy in one of the bonus minigames you get for finding a warp in Boost mode, though the only difference is that she has sleeves similar to Jam, rather than armbands. Kakusei Sol and Kakusei Ky are also the final bosses for Boost mode (if you play on Normal difficulty or higher, and get a certain score, you actually fight a Giant Robo Ky 2, Robo Ky Substance, after them). They're pretty fun to play as, especially since they have moves that you don't see in any other game.

[@FireballFarts]

The kill your friends guilt free one blew my mind bc I had no idea the ever marketed the first game over here.

[@GGLander]

the alien also appears in missing link, millia stage, its in the background behind a tree if i recall correctly, you have to double jump to see it.

[@autumnoraki]

I tried double jumping but could not find it, could you link some sort of screenshot? I'd love to see it

[@GGLander]

@@autumnoraki i tried to reply but my comments dont show up for some reason.

[@GGLander]

@@autumnoraki look up maximilian dood video called Og gg is absolute nuts part19 or something like that Go to around 6:30 in that video and you can see the et in the background to the left side behind the tree. He is doing some weird dance.

[@autumnoraki]

@@GGLander oh shit yeah, thanks!!!

[@dragonlash]

15:30 I think the reason those characters are referenced in Axl's stage is the because the stage could be a reference to the Fatal Fury team's stage from KoF 98!

[@dragonlash]

I just got some visual confirmation, yeah the trains between the two stages look almost identical!

[@austinreed7343]

There should be an update video; Strive has updated the stories of certain characters like Bridget and Faust. Also, Judgement, Leopaldon, & Gig are missing.

[@MisterFael]

Zappa's "stand" is called Raoh, which might also make this a reference to Fist of the North Star.

[@WilfredCthulu]

That ended up being pretty good. Really interesting stuff by the end. I've seen other charts on Guilty Gear with more stuff around (like theories on who S-Ko used to be), I hope those can get videos of more quality by people too.

[@Pc_98_Fan]

6:00 welp Testament is now a confirmed DLC for Season 1, and got a complete redesign

[@thederranged8556]

I would simply like to say that while testing a bunch of matchups with CPUs in +R I actually got that alien achievement. I was so confused when I got it, and I only now understand what the hell triggered it. I would also like to point out that I only have like 23 hours in the game, so getting it that early by sheer dumb luck without even knowing how to trigger it in the first place is astonishing to me.

[@SchmoopyTron]

A little trivia. In the pc port of guilty gear x, the blood in that game is green. And the dreamcast version has the music flipped for some characters, such has zato having "blue water blue sky" and baiken with "writhe in pain". Oh yea one more thing. The alien easter egg was in the first game

[@autumnoraki]

Nice video that friend of yours sounds extremely cool and badass

[@scrungle6521]

“I can only hope that this video becomes outdated by arcsys giving out that update” ITS TIME REAL XRD ROLLBACK

[@Basket_Propellors]

17:04 well this is true now

[@Starkiller156]

5:58 This entry aged well with what was revealed today lol

[@roboknobthesnob]

The first GG literally finishes spelling out that Sol is guilty for killing Aria/Justice, not for what other gears did

[@h2hydro]

btw in Strive's english dub, Ky has a reference to that terrible dub he had done of him as a voiceline for when he gets knocked down

[@roycebracket1010]

I'm super late to the Guilty Gear party, but the first thing that crossed my mind when I first saw Axl was, in fact, Billy. Great vid, great editing, and might I say sir, you've got a very good... voice? Delivery? You're cool to listen to is what I'm trying to say.

[@MojaveManiac]

I'm glad you made a video covering the iceberg this was actually well made and supet informative! Fucking bless

[@MetaKnuxXbeats]

I can't believe I didn't find this earlier. Around early last year, I also did a Guilty Gear iceberg though kind of... It was more of a Guilty Gear X Blazblue iceberg and looking back, I could of done better but I did predict some stuff in Strive in that iceberg. I do want to do a new Guilty Gear and Blazblue icebergs but separate this time and probably make them bigger too so hope those gets some traction in the future.

[@haiju324]

6:00 - Testament is already here in strive as playable character

[@des951]

back then she wasn’t

[@haiju324]

@@des951 she???? It is him self.

[@des951]

@@haiju324 goes by him or her, if you want to call them they then sure but it doesn’t matter. At least in strive

[@haiju324]

@@des951 ah ok i get it. It is gear so Testament doesnt have gender.

[@des951]

@@haiju324 yeah that shit took me by surprise too, testament used to be a him in previous games.

[@Kawi31]

lol that testament cameo turned out to be bigger than we thought

[@hagahong3327]

17:02 "Xrd has rollback" And here we are, Oct. 2022. Happy Xrd Rollback beta!

[@anopirsten7565]

there's a "most replayed" thing on the I-No nipslip chapter lmao

[@JohnnyGuiltyMan]

Don't forget that Sol's headband says "Rock you" like that one Queen song. And Axl's timestop is One Vision, once again a Queen song

[@RadikAlice]

This was fun and well done! And the music choices were just excellent Also, based for putting the Bill Clinton thing last, it's so good

[@stygiann]

Guilty Gear also became my fav fighting game franchise real quick. It's truly amazing, full of style and camp. I love it to death.

[@Tihreer]

17:03 this aged like a wine

[@ajvladmir2481]

17:00 WE HAVE DONE IT, XRD HAS ROLLBACK!!!!!!!

[@wewuwewu]

Bridget's gender should be at the abyss level

[@dansmith1661]

He will always be male.

[@roblox_enjoyer228]

​@@dansmith1661nuhuh

[@MagicalGirlFia]

No it shouldn’t. Daisuke said she’s a girl. Bridget says she’s a girl. The strive characters refer to her as a girl. If you are dead set on her being a boy then you have some issues with internalized (or externalized) transphobia.

[@shocknawe]

The “guilt” is from killing Aria as Justice in the first game, not from gears in general.

[@Thee_Znutz]

I love the entirety of Guilty gear and it's a pleasure to watch this! Thank you

[@GuilhermeSantos-qw5yl]

About the musics references at 2:31. Giovanna from Strive is a Brazilian character, and she has the move "Sepultura" named after a Brazilian metal band

[@majorghoul9017]

Testament is agender, and has undergone a transition between the events of the games where they were absent

[@cise3895]

There was also the May Ship anime references in AC & +R. Haven’t seen the former for myself, but it’s apparently a reference to Haruhi. The latter I _have_ seen and is actually one of the reasons I got into GG at all; it’s a reference to Madoka Magica, and a very blatant one at that.

[@AiGreyrat]

can u send me a vid of that(W madoka

[@adamant6470]

So, Sol could have been in smash because of that Ds game and you can technicaly see Axl in background in smash. Interesting!

[@musatosagaki2347]

Incredible video, i know most of these because im a friggin nerd about this game, but there was a lot of stuff i didn't know, like the bill Clinton clip, Great video overall.

[@therussianwanderer4851]

12:43 But despite the fact, that we could see Oro's **** in Street Fighter III, the game got rated T.

[@j_a_c_k_i_e_]

15:55 I don’t Axl’s name is William. William is just a guy from I-no’s old universe that is a lot like Axl

[@ShoukerX]

14:31 You don't need specific characters for that Easter egg, I was playing with a friend, I was playing Order Sol and he played with Slayer and in one of the rematches we stumbled upon the Alien for the first time.

[@caveirainvocada9438]

1:25 i always tought of that as Sol being a traitor of his own race because he murdered Justice

[@originalzero4422]

5:20 "It's so bad that neither of us could pull it off successfully" no that's what we call not having execution. Secondly, It's not an instant kill. It only does half health at most.. not to mention whenever you see it, it's always on a low health training dummy because the last hit where he becomes a dragon is only enabled on kill percentage.

[@JJStylies]

Bbcf and AC+R got rollback due to fans creating ggpo implementations that arcsys would commission for official updates, along with qol additions. Afaik no such project exists for xrd at this time, but if it did, I can imagine them doing the same thing

[@fadetoblackened4407]

Huh, I wonder what the most replayed section of this video is

[@exnamekian]

4:58 shit I never noticed that she flies away!

[@plaguedoctor4411]

slayer being just a chad and fighting for fun also shows in nago with them both being nightless, they both recline when beaten instead of actually being beaten

[@roycebracket1010]

"Zappa's a Jojo reference" I feel like he's not the only one.

[@jordanguelbert7754]

As soon as i saw "Guilty gear in L.A./N.Y." i was hoping, nay praying for it to switch to the vocal version because i love the vocal version on existence vs so much i was singing it the entire time. Im glad you didn't disappoint me.

[@StressTess_ted]

I'm happy to say the "xrd rollback" fact is outdated. I think I can stand for everyone being happy that it isn't true anymore lol.

[@christhechilled]

5:58 first time I saw Testament new design and I didn't know that it was Testament.

[@GiornoKujo]

XRD IS GETTING ROLLBACK NOW

[@cinderzs]

im starting to think im imagining it now, but at 2:35 isnt axl low based off of axl rose design wise?

[@BluesM18A1]

Most likely, yeah

[@happysaucey]

>Bridget's gender Oh boy if this video was made like. A week ago

[@PaganPilot]

Some other entries could be Missing Link was originally going to be 3d (and may had an axe see in some old magazibe), and gg xrd protype with cursed sol.

[@fishy-531]

17:03 video outdated >:)

[@synkadus]

+R has Rollaback not beacause arcsys did it, but because bunch of people in discord gathered and made it in few years

[@BriberX000]

16:15 Pretty sure those are just supposed to be references to other fighting games like Street Fighter (Chun-Li) or Soul Calibur (Maxi)

[@Nishimiya_Bojji]

For the 3rd encounter achievement, just play as much as you can in Axl AC stage, at random, I dunno the % you will se an alien in the painting or something like that, I got that achievement and thats how I got it, you know normally there is a person painting there but an alien can be appear there

[@TheHakaseOne]

Bulsara is Freddie Mercury's original surname.

[@chakradarrat8832]

guilty gear on the wii is a pain. there was no instructions in the booklet for wii and nunchucks control

[@Hieropink]

17:16 Good news.

[@JudgedMentalMusic]

Zappa is literally just a reference to Zappa

[@DedlyAidan]

17:17 so... what's your opinion on rollback so far?

[@BluesM18A1]

Night and day difference, really. Hard to describe how much it helps the game's responsiveness but if you've played enough games with and without delay/rollback netcode you'll know exactly what I mean.

[@KyberJar]

One of the better iceberg videos I've seen

[@Ovasiig]

So little thing but isuka was made during the time ASW didn’t have guilty gear. And yes blazblue was made in place of guilty gear. But when they got it back they became their competition. Hence team red and team blue. Red for guilty gear and blue for blazblue. Also Daisuke and his co producer switch roles between the games. It’s something you’d only notice if you read the credits or game details in the details of central fiction.

[@KumaPunchh]

For clarification, Bridget now identifies as a trans female (as seen in Strive) "See ya, cowgir- I mean, cowboy..." "No, cowgirl is fine!"- Interaction between Goldlewis (GGST exclusive character) and Bridget

[@KumaPunchh]

Also, Axl Low is named after the lead singer of Guns & Roses (Axl Rose)

[@SirSoup]

This video was made before that

[@Soulxstar]

may is in her early 20's for anyone asking btw so her crush with Johnny (who's in his early 30's) might not be that imposible

[@BluesM18A1]

She only mumbles "20" in the English dub of Xrd story mode with far more incoherent whispering in the Japanese dub afaik so the validity of that information is debatable. Should have pointed that out more clearly in the video.

[@irlvaderorsomething7357]

I'm not gonna lie, I've always thought of Billy Kane whenever I saw Axl, even before I started playing GG

[@thetater1296]

17:02 me seeing this waiting for late October 2022

[@KC_Smooth]

So Ky was like "Hey son, wanna swap eyes with daddy?"

[@LeFisheboi]

1:20 false, while he was the first gear he doesn't feel guilty over that, and if he does it's not why he's called that, he was the gear who betrayed the gears, as he was the first justice couldn't control him like the others, being a traitor to his kind, he is the guilty gear

[@CatboyCatguy]

Ky took Sin's eye because he was already part gear, due to having intimate relationship with Dizzy. He got gear cells from her, so to gain an ability to control his gear powers, he took Sin's eye. If he didnt, he would be always going around in his dragon install, the "gear form" which is forbidden due to him being the first king if Illyria and the first hero of the Crusades

[@DSKBR556]

got the alien painting achiev days ago and i was wondering where it came from. google gave me nothing but now i know. what are the chances

[@RetroRageasaurus]

5:27 ...oh holy shit she's probably also over 100+ years old like Baiken or smth, never even considered this till now :O

[@AveryCubed]

if you listen to the audio in signs dub she's anywhere from 22-26 actually

[@RetroRageasaurus]

@@AveryCubed Really?! Which section? Arcade or Story mode?

[@AveryCubed]

@@RetroRageasaurus during the story mode of sign there's a section where chipp and May are on their way to meet up with Johnny and during this time chip keeps calling her a kid much to may's annoyance. Chipp asks how old May is anyway and may will mumble her age into chipps ear. If you listen closely to the mumbling it starts as 20 followed by a single syllable letter, hence 22-26 because the three most commonly heard numbers are 22 24 and 26

[@arthurpprado]

Welp, people were going insane due to Jam being in a picture in the ending of Strive's story but in the end, the real character that got added to Strive was Testament, top hat and all

[@Quarataia]

Wish I knew guilty gear lore.

[@raivin7172]

Watch this playlist its fucking awesome. Then check out Strive story mode and thats it kzbin.info/aero/PLiSdC6Lp8c7OkrBhzdQsQhGL_7jT0cSTv

[@skullyozeez6781]

10:14 great song pick, easily one of the best songs in BB

[@turinmormegil7715]

"Kill your friends, Guilt free" Could that be the coveted Freedom of the Calm?

[@AkiSoraEnjoyer]

Seeing this right before the month when Xrd’s rollback beta will be released. You got your wish. Xrd is getting it. And I a random get to play a new (to me) guilty gear game and bitch about other characters being bullshit in a new way.

[@juankoenig3095]

In the guilty gear for gba you can play as a different version of Ky that looks like his damaged but he's very broken, I feel like that foreshadows guilty gear xrd

[@WingGT79]

Great video !

[@jamalsoundninja2]

80% of the stuff that he says was in ggxxac was in ggxx (or as I know it being old ggx2 ) ggxxac was pretty much a complete edition of ggxx. Only things added in ggxxac was justice and kliff. Everything else is the same.

[@lovingfool2060]

I'm surprised "Faust is haunted" wasn't on the iceberg