Guilty Gear Strive - The Circle (Bedman?) / Let's Talk About You

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Guilty Gear Strive - The Circle (Bedman?) / Let's Talk About You | Reacting To Video Game Music!

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@unknownprototype00 Ай бұрын

Every day we get closer to listening to A.B.A's theme and Nagoryuki's theme 🙏🏻

@michaelpietri9471 Ай бұрын

A.B.A's theme is by far in a way my favorite of the soundtrack and got me to main her, and that bass in Nago's theme is something else!

@FlutterSwag Ай бұрын

@@michaelpietri9471i didnt expect to like aba and elphets theme as much as i did

@michaelpietri9471 Ай бұрын

@@FlutterSwag yeah, ive loved all of season 3's songs more than i thought i would, i think johnny's is the weakest for me and even then it's incredible. Also i went a good two weeks instinctively singing extras and symphony in the shower. Theyre amazing

@FlutterSwag Ай бұрын

@@michaelpietri9471 same, slayer is a vibe, but elphelt and aba got me singing my heart out like the end of zato's theme 😂

@michaelpietri9471 Ай бұрын

@@FlutterSwag i'm terrified of every new character in fear that daisuke and naoki just dont have it in em to make more bangers, but each and every time they amaze me with something awesome; like i was _extremely_ worried slayer's theme wouldnt hold up to jack a dandy, but Ups and Downs is an instant classic

@aidenmb7932 Ай бұрын

Alright, heres my overly long lore explanation on why The Circle has one of the best narratives in the series and is one of, if not, my favorite of the character themes. So in the previous installment, Xrd, Bedman was an entirely differently person. He was a boy named Romeo (im just gonna continue calling him Bedman) and was on the side of the villains. He was immensely powerful and, strangely, always asleep. Eventually we learn his motives, Bedman wanted to create a perfect world where he and his sister could actually live, as they both had a rare genetic condition that made their brains unable to keep up with their thoughts. Bedman was smart enough and powerful that he remembered everyone he killed and was ready to bring them back once this perfect world was fulfilled. However, he would eventually be defeated and forcefully awoken, which would lead to his death. Before his death, he managed to send off just enough of his power to safely awaken his sister Delilah, who we see in Strive. In Strive, aside from the Bedframe being broken, most of the lore comes from the theme (and the arcade mode, but it just reinforces that the bedframe is acting weird). In The Circle, the song is most definitely taking place from Romeo's perspective. It mentions many times imagery that would be attributed to the afterlife, "Do you see the radient light?" Etc. And how its not quite how its to be expected, "Pitch black, pure white, all the same," "Endless. Finite." Etc. Which makes it pretty clear that the circle is talking about the circle of life, the first 2 choruses porclaiming that he's on the border, i.e. at the end of his life. Towards the final chorus, after what seems to be a higher being rejecting his calls it says, "if you can give someone something." Followed by the final chorus. The end of the song ends with, "Im here, Im here." No border of the circle, Romeo has died. The song is most likely the finally thoughts going through Romeo's head as he sends his bedframe to protect the one thing he cares about, it does say "I may not be able to make you smile, but, i will never make you cry, even once, never." I hope all that got through 😅. Bedman's my favorite character and his theme (or at least this interpretation) really cemented that for me

@Sassaparilla Ай бұрын

One critique, not the Circle of Life. It's the Cycle (or Circle) of Samsara. That's why Sitar is a prominent instrument in the theme, a notably Indian instrument. The Circle of Life is the concept that you never truly die, as you become part of the environment, which will go on to feed others, and those others will go on to feed your kind, and so on. The Cycle of Samsara is the karmic cycle, an endless loop of death and rebirth, where one is judged for their actions in their past life to mold the conditions of their next life, their next form. We also know that Romeo is not actually dead, due to a quote from Happy Chaos. He is somewhere beyond the concept of Life and Death, he has achieved his Nirvana. While his mortal form turned to stone, his consciousness has gone far beyond that of the human form by erasing his ID, which would make him a "bug" in the World, a trait he would share with the Vampires (Nightless) of GG.

@IfritFGC Ай бұрын

Bedman isn't actually a puppet character though anyone would think that at first. They had a cool mechanic in Xrd where you could "record" a previously used special move and replay it(like a clone doing it). In Strive it's a bit more straight forward with a specific follow up for each move. Guilty Gear doesn't really do puppet characters apart from maybe Zappa in +R but the team probably saw Carl and Relius in Blazblue and said "nah, they can keep that"

@IfritFGC Ай бұрын

Also you're 100% correct about the theater part, it ties in really deep with the character's lore(which only a fraction of the playerbase can even remotely quote) and it's also the reason Naoki chooses all these different cadences. The OST for previous entries seems so much more "safe" in comparison.

@unrelentingdoom1390 Ай бұрын

@@IfritFGC Zato don’t exist then.

@IfritFGC Ай бұрын

@@unrelentingdoom1390 I won't lie I actually forgot Zato existed LMAO He's so bad now that they've erased his name from history

@robertwallace5991 Ай бұрын

@@IfritFGC Wasn't Zato literally the first character made in that archetype? I know you forgot but saying GG doesn't do puppet characters when they invented the entire concept is WILD lmao. XD No hate, I just thought that was kinda funny haha.

@IfritFGC Ай бұрын

@@robertwallace5991 All good I also cracked up a little cause I couldn't remember him at ALL. It's crazy cause I used to play Strive until early into S3 and he was still pretty relevant for most of the game's lifespan but I guess it's just... been a while

@UnpronounceabIeName Ай бұрын

"Bedman?"'s story is very hard to explain, but the song is basically about Bedman, who's a different character, caring so much about his sister Delilah (which is the girl hanging out with the bed, yes that robot is a bed. Long story...) that even through death the only thing he cares about is protecting his sister. So much so that his soul ends up possessing the bedframe leaving it with one last objective, to protect his sister at all costs. (Which is what the chorus is talking about) The entire song is basically about Bedman being in this sort of limbo. In a very bitter, kinda sweet way still being able to be with his sister, but only to protect her, and nothing more.

@millythompsonfromtrigun98anime Ай бұрын

It’s wacky, but takes itself seriously. Guilty Gear withholds my favorite tone for a story: Embracing whatever idea comes to mind without a care for what audiences will think. It’s hard to TAKE seriously at times, but there’s so much beauty in that. BlazBlue has a similar tone. These games are outlets for artists to pour their hearts out.

@K_Obradinn Ай бұрын

And that! Is BULLSHIT BLAZING (lol this pun is perfect)

@FlutterSwag Ай бұрын

Even the title 'Strive' is such a strong theme in every song

@Majevel Ай бұрын

@8:45 I felt like Guilty Gear and strive specifically incorporates their story into every facet of the game, the songs are so weird and kinda ingenious because it is the story of a character in a song, every emotion and reason to keep going embodied in a song. The lyrics are written by someone with a very clear idea in their head of who this character is and they let it flow with little filter. Its firmly in the "high art" territory where it has to be interpreted and that can get divisive. But in songs like The Circle and Symphony, The weird sporadic lyrics make a lot more sense when the context of who the character is and what happening to them. Bedman has died, in the moment he is just about to fade, he is actively reflecting on himself and death and trying desperately to save and protect his sister from beyond death. Its why it gets weirdly spiritual and churchy, dude is basically seeing god right now but he still has work left unfinished. Its hard to write this shit into a fighting game without making books or even more cutscenes in a series that really shouldn't have more cutscenes than it needs

@aediusbarbatus Ай бұрын

All these people lore-dumping and nobody just comes out and says that "The Circle" is the cycle of reincarnation, which Bedman (Romeo) escaped in order to protect his sister at the cost of dooming himself to exist in an empty, featureless void for all of eternity. Bedman? is a tragic character with a sick-ass design... so, you know, he fits right in with all the other weirdos of Strive. A thing I've noticed about the GG community is that they love to give reactors paragraphs of backstory and like, recreate entire wikis from memory, but they almost never connect those dots into a picture that says, "Here's how all that connects to this song; therefore, the song is telling us..." Which is funny, because you only need a bare minimum of story from any previous game to appreciate the pathos of this character: "A young girl with powers she doesn't understand and can't fully control is watched over by a decaying mechanical guardian made from the high-tech hospital bed that formerly kept her older brother alive but is now possessed by his spirit. That spirit broke free from the cycle of reincarnation to protect his frail sister, but can never re-enter that cycle and will be trapped in limbo long after the machine he inhabits has broken and rusted away."

@shadowforge25 Ай бұрын

Nailed it with the theater comments. Oftentimes, at least in strive, the "idea" of something is the appeal, not necessarily the exact implementation. Personally, I think some of the character stories kinda fall flat or are just weirdly absent in implementation, but the very premise and ideas they represent keep me interested in an otherwise "basic" character story. I feel like similar things might apply to character designs or the like for many as well.

@Symmetrykun Ай бұрын

I love subtile mechanical sounds through The Circle. Even slow part in 4:43 sounds factory-like. Didnt catch it untill some of re-listenings.

@Jonago. 24 күн бұрын

"Talk About You" plays at the Story Mode end credits on console, you're right

@noahr607 Ай бұрын

What you’re saying about GGS being like theater is *exactly* how I view it!

@hedgehogsonic11 Ай бұрын

Bedman is one of my mains, and to summarize his story as succinctly as I can: Bedman and his little sister have incredibly accelerated thought processing speed that is essentially psychic power, but their bodies can't handle it, so they're trapped in a dreamful coma. The big robot bedframe is how Bedman engages with the world, and his goal is to fuse dreams with reality so his sister can wake up. The big antagonist of Xrd, the game before Strive, lies to him and promises that she'll give him the means to do that, and Bedman serves as a side antagonist for a good portion of the plot, until during a fight his body is forced to wake up and in his last moments he's betrayed by the main antagonist. He uses his dying moments to try and defeat the central antagonist, but fails, but does at least manage to wake up his sister. The Bedman(?) in Strive is his robot bedframe, basically reprogrammed with the sole desire to protect Bedman's sister. While not overtly stated in the story, it seems that the original Bedman is basically haunting/possessing his own bedframe, which is where you get the "do you see the radiant light/do you hear the beautiful chant/do you hear the tender warmth/nothing here but go/pitch black, pure white, all the same" he's sort of trapped in a purgatory between heaven and hell, but his Bedframe is still recording his desires (hence the occasional mechanical breaks with "copy that") but the whole song is that despite being trapped between light and dark, in the endless circle of samsara, the only thing that matters to him is continuing to protect his sister (the girl next to the bed) with "I may not be able to make you smile/but I'll never make you cry neither, once, never/I struggle to go outside the circle/Consuming ten billion years in an instant/and I'll come to you without a second thought/I'm here, I'm here". We can basically interpret the entire song as an interpolation of how Bedman feels about his current state and his desire to protect his sister. Guilty Gear has this repeated motif about the contrast between heaven and hell, good and evil, and some of my favorite characters in the series are ones who have to exist outside of that dichotomy, and I think the back and forth this song has between growling and heavy electric guitar versus the lighter sitar parts, and that really somber bridge, and the mechanical additions really highlight that narrative contrast. Despite being literally dead and denied an afterlife, Bedman persists, stuck in the circle, yet unable to give up, because he has to protect his sister. And the song communicates all of that brilliantly when you have the context.

@hedgehogsonic11 Ай бұрын

Talk About You is one of the two credit themes in Strive, the other also being a ballad titled The Name of Heaven. Guilty Gear has a few ballads in its repitoire that I hope you can get to, but Strive's ending is the conclusion of Sol's arc across the main story. Daisuke's the writer, artist, and composer of the series and both of the credits feel like a considerable send off to Sol's story and the arc as a whole. Guilty Gear has had a concert recently actually

@unlimitedgames5160 Ай бұрын

I mean, the campaign of strive is a four hour long cutscene with no gameplay. So I’d say the theatre comparison is completely fair.

@mojojojox5043 Ай бұрын

Oh man, I love both of these songs a lot so this will be a big comment. These were on my radar to suggest to you but a bunch of folks already did that which is awesome. That dirty bass is so good and there's so much here to talk about. I'll have to talk about the lyrics first, without going too deep into the lore (I'm sure other peeps in the comments got it covered) it's about how Bedman refuses to move on in the after life so he can protect his sister by possessing his old robot bed. The circle is referring to purgatory which is described in the song and where Bedman has placed himself because he want to protect his sister. The "Copy That" is specifically the response of the robot bed doing what Bedman tells it to do. These lyrics hit hard when you know the context, I'll talk about a certain lyrics later. Great riffs and the weird talk section is so interesting, I didn't really like it the first time I heard it but it's grown on me and it adds a lot to the song. The sitar section is super cool, I love the whirs right before the chorus. It's like the robot bed is finally waking up. Great chorus but Strive always had good choruses. I like how there's anger in the vocals at times which gets across the anger Bedman felt after being betrayed. The scream of the word circle right after the second chorus makes me think of Bedman screaming out trying to speak with someone, anyone. I love the desperate feel during the bridge, it just feels so sad. The final chorus almost chokes me up with the lyrics "I may not be able to make you smile, But I'll never make you cry even once, never". The final lyric of the song, "I'm here I'm here" at the very end makes me think of when you say that to comfort a kid when they are scared. Thinking of the final line like that while hearing the emotion put into it then dropping out because he no longer lives is very emotional I find. Such a fantastic song with such a great story to it and Naoki's performance does a lot with inflections of emotion. I completely agree with what you said about Strive as a whole. Talk About You is so pleasant, it's the end credits for story mode. I don't really know Strive's story in full yet and how it ends (haven't had the time to watch it) but I'm sure the lyrics make a lot of sense in regards to it. Since I don't know the context fully I'll be talking about the instrumental. Really nice clean vocals from Naoki and the high notes are really well done. I love the orchestration as well. The chorus sounds like an explosion of passion, the harmonies are pretty cool since they all seem to be in the tenor range. The drum fills near the end are really fun. I love how the ending loops back to the vibes of the beginning. The Stone Temple Pilots reference is probably on purpose lol. A Guilty Gear Strive musical would be awesome haha. I enjoy this video a lot, what a treat.

@mashedpopatos2463 3 күн бұрын

''what are they talking about?'' is a pretty good reaction to any guilty gear song

@BlameJeux Ай бұрын

*opens youtube* *Sees Guilty Gear in Jesse's Auditorium* *Instant click, grab earbuds, enjoy*

@dabiga2315 Ай бұрын

The Circle: I just love the bass hook in the beginning and when the bass goes "vroom" in the prechorus and when the bassist pops off in the last chorus and when the- Talk About You: This song makes me feel guilty for not calling my parents whenever I hear it. This isn't a character's theme; it's part of the background music in the story mode cinematic. GG has a bunch of these, such as Name of Heaven from this game, or Icarus, Divide my Heart, or Freesia from Xrd. (All worth checking out!) If you're curious about the lore, this madlad managed to condense the entire main storyline into a 15-minute video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJevqmmPobmIjJIsi=eWqmS8PW-xphG2RY

@xanderdaniels8284 Ай бұрын

The bass part at the end of the circle is so fucking cool

@crackerswithchez Ай бұрын

He does not know the insanity of The Gravity

@APrinnyDood Ай бұрын

I find Strive's upcoming anime trailer and a Jesse reaction on the same day!? This is a great day

@CableSpark872 Ай бұрын

8:25 You got that absolutely right. I recently became interested in Guilty Gear, specifically the lore (cuz my pc can't handle the games :/), and I think that Guilty Gear Strive is doing something really special with its character writing, because they're all like a puzzle that you have to piece together through their designs, animations, gameplay, music and voice lines to get the full picture of what's going on with each of them, some of them are surprisingly deep or even touchingly relatable once you do. It's just amazing to me as someone who appreciates videogames as an artistic outlet and aspires to be a "jack of all trades" game dev one day. It's very clear that Strive's sountrack (and everything about the game) is the result of an incredibly talented person who's living the dream of sharing his fully realized artistic vision with the world. He knows everything about these characters and uses the full extents of his multiple talents to bring those ideas to life in every single area of the game. "Daisuke's vision" is a meme in the Guilty Gear community, and it's really funny, but talking 100% seriously, I actually think he might be one of the greatest gamedevs/artists in general of our time, with Guilty Gear being the main outlet for his creativity and philosophy, it's his magnum opus, and something that can inspire any kind of artist who takes their time to admire it. I'm really hyped for your reaction to A.B.A.'s theme btw! Hopefully it's coming soon!

@TRDEWH Ай бұрын

Probably been explained a billion times but The Circle is about a man's final thought while dying more or less (Very abbreviated but that's how I like to think about it.)

@pallaskatze7653 Ай бұрын

Gosh, the story of Bedman is so sad. I can't do it justice trying to explain it but I would recommend watching a video on him. He used to be a guy who was in the bed, but he died. The lyrics are sort of referencing giving up the afterlife to instead live as his bed mech so he could keep protecting his sister. (the girl)

@AlluidTheGamer Ай бұрын

The Circle is deliberately ambiguous, just like Bedman? is. The "Circle" it's referring to can be three things; The barrier between the magical world and the real world, the "circle" being something Bedman - a human character, the previous wielder of the Bed, and the girl (Delilah)'s big brother - struggled to get through. Both Bedman (not his real name, everyone called him that because he was just a dude in a big angry bed and he rolled with it) and Delilah were forced into a coma to prevent their natural magic from killing them, though Bedman was able to act through his Bed and dream magic to save her. His dying act was to unbind her from that limitation. The barrier between the afterlife and the real world, the "circle" being something Bedman - the human character - might be pushing through to possess the Bed and be with her. This is part of why it's Bedman? instead of Bedman - the human character is dead, literally reduced to dust, but *nobody* is certain if the bed is just programmed to do what it's doing, possessed by his soul, or just inherited his will to keep her safe and happy. The cycle of time and reincarnation, the "circle" being something that Bedman would be stuck in a loop of if he's bound to the magical world instead of fully dead. Something he's pushing through so he can still be there with her instead of moving on, with it being the sole coherent part of being trapped there her connection to her.

@JomaXZ Ай бұрын

Talk about you is the credits theme of Strive. Pretty accurate assessment there. If I recall, the first GG game and the GGX series count as the first game together (for some reason). Then theres Guilty Gear 2 Overture, the only straight forwardly numbered one. Xrd is the third and Strive is the fourth (one of the trailers highlighted the IV in Strive iirc)

@Xeroxthebeautiful Ай бұрын

The circle is basically about the original Bedman overcoming the absolute cycle of death and rebirth through sheer willpower and at great personal cost so that he can protect his sister. I especially love how it ends with the words "I'm here" cause it sounds like both a defiant statement that he's managed to surpass a universal law and also that he's trying to tell his sister he's there for her.

@ShikiRyougi05 Ай бұрын

I love that jesse keeps thinking gg songs have multiple vocalists lmao. If it's a man it's Naoki. If it's a women it's Aisha. Follow that and it works for 90% of songs hehe.

@Blagno4 Ай бұрын

Bedman is a man who, after being betrayed by his villainous allies, through sheer force of will, used magicks of the highest caliber to save the day. And after dying, he once again did the same by escaping the usual cycle of death, by imparting his power and convictions to the machine he once used, once again by sheer force of will, because fuck what powers may be, he's not letting his sister wander the world alone.

@cashordeals3672 Ай бұрын

Ayy let's go bro uploaded and KZbin didn't screw me over😅👌🏾

@leonlindkvist Ай бұрын

crazy duo The circle and talk about you

@witchfinder79 Ай бұрын

bedmans story is the coolest thing in guilty gear easily

@melon3109 Ай бұрын

Can't wait for all the comments attempting to explain the lore and theories on Bedman? and Bedman. The more I listen to GGS character themes, the more I appreciate and dig the lyrics. Especially when learning more about the world and characters. The lyrics are very poetic and symbolic, rarely straightforward. Some folks write them off as silly or dumb or nonsense, but it's quite the opposite (not saying Jesse is doing that, but a trend I've noticed watching lots of GGS music reaction videos). The circle has some more complicated meanings with cycle of life and death, iirc, which connects with the character in how complicated they are an in an in-between life and death state or w/e. It's neat. Or some songs with lyrics like "blah blah blah" or "rub a dub" are mocked like just silly filler lyrics but they actually flow well with the music and have meaning with the accompanying lyrics. I often hear folks lament GGS music would be better without lyrics but I could never get behind that notion. GGS music is one of those rare occurrences for me at least, where the music gets better with each listen. Having that game universe with its rich lore, characters, and interesting and unique future fantasy magic whatever story is a spice that enhances it.

@GAPPY1313 Ай бұрын

POR FIN !!!

@BreedableVaporeon0978 Ай бұрын

The Circle was actually my most listend to song in 2023

@Solr05 Ай бұрын

i hope to hear more guilty gear strive music

@chrisbaldwin8570 Ай бұрын

Bedman? The Circle broken down real quick. Past game had a character called Bedman, a sleeping boy in a mechanical bed who acted as an agent for Guilty Gear's version of the Pope doing a lot of bad things for what he felt were good reasons. He died. In his death he used an ability he was shown to have to create a copy of his mind and place it in the broken remnants of his previous mechanical fighting bed. In short, Bedman is in the bed, making the combined being Bedman?. The little girl is his sister, Delilah who he had been trying to save prior to his death. She finds the broken machine and his corpse, and that where Strive starts with their combined story. The Circle is telling Copy Bedman's story from his perspective. He is trapped within the code and equipment of the bed, a literal ghost in the machine. "What's my endgame? There came a zero" refers to him talking to the bed and it answering back in binary. A 0 in binary is a false, negative, or untrue. Basically, the bed is telling him there is no endgame, it's over. He is stuck in a malfunctioning broken machine that is constantly wiping it's short-term memory to try to free up space now that it unexpectedly has to host an entire person. This is the "pendulum" he keeps seeing, each day being a fresh new experience for him but he is stuck futilely pressing forward but always returning to his start point. The Copy Bedman is stuck in an existential crisis. He is not the original Bedman, but rather a Ship of Theseus who lacks the emotional connection Bedman had with is sister but is still charged with the purpose of protecting her. Copy Bedman didn't get to decide this, Bedman forced this upon his copy as a last act of desperation prior to his death and now the Copy Bedman has to live, possibly forever, with the consequences of it. If you ever seen Soma or similar media about a copy of you being left in an impossible situation with the only recourse to suffer and commiserate, that is the essence of the Circle.

@solomon9655 Ай бұрын

I’d describe this song as “Defiance in the face of nihilism”

@melon3109 Ай бұрын

Yeah, second one is credits song pretty sure. And yeah, thats Sol Badguy. He's the main protagonist of the series, I guess you could say. The Ryu of the game. GG lore is a post apocalyptic future of the real world where y2k actually happened but related to some god like entity screamed to the world angry at technology, humanity then falling into a new dark age casting off all technology, then actual magic being introduced to our world and... Well, its a world where magic exists and how our society would progress i guess. Its near and unlike anything else I can think of. Check Woolie's videos on the GG lore. Its neat.

@Zanetsu Ай бұрын

I'm super curious as to what the name of the background song is. Something sounds really familiar but I can't put my finger on it.

@TajinQ Ай бұрын

I don't know how to feel about the circle. There's some stuff I reaally like but it gets cut short by other segments of the song I don't dig as much. I wished the song explored some of those ideas further.

@artemiox3434 Ай бұрын

Can you listen to the OST of the new characters and the song The name of haven?

@KusunekoBrainless Ай бұрын

The Guilty Gear Brainrot is real 😭😭🙏 SPOILERS FOR XRD AND STRIVE: (Bedman was Romeo F. Neumann, the Guy with the Purple Hair, but He died and made His Sister be awake, The Bedframe had some remnants of Bedman and It's goal is to Save Delilah, the Girl, from the Lore, Both Are Extremely smart that They can only stay asleep to remain alive, or so is the case for Romeo, So He basically sacrificed himself at the End of XRD, which is who the legs of the "Unknown Girl" is; Delilah. Which explains why The Bed is a Puppet character and it says "Bedman?")