History VideoGame / GuiltyGear

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: According to the promotional trailer for ''GGX'', the "X" is pronounced as "zex." Similarly, the "XX" in ''GGXX'' is "igzex." ''Xrd''[='s=] trailer shows that it's pronounced "exard"/"ecks-erd" (or, as seen in [[http://www.dustloop.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-16395-p-11.html a later interview]] with ''Dengeki'', "igzird").

* SequelNumberSnarl: ''[=GG2=]: Overture'' avoided this by merit of relegating the ''X'' series to the status of sidestories to the original game without diminishing their impact on canon. ''Xrd'', which could essentially be considered a sequel to both ''XX'' and ''Overture'', oddly picks up the slack, however, as it more or less continues on from the titling conventions of ''X'' and ''XX'' (''Guilty Gear X3'' would've been an acceptable choice, but ASW certainly couldn't call the game "Guilty Gear [[ExplicitContent XXX]]", [[UnfortunateNames now could they?]]).

* GameMod: ''Strive'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBrGETVAu0 a surprisingly robust modding scene]] for a fighting game, and one at the beginning of its days. Mods range from alternate color palettes, intros, new particle effects, and even one that turns [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound May's Totsugeki]] in to PokemonSpeak.

*** Characters have different weight class, meaning some combos don't work on everybody.

* GrandFinale: ''Strive'' is this for several prominent characters, particularly Sol, Jack-O', I-No, Axl and That Man. [[spoiler:Sol fakes his death after being freed from his out-of-control gear powers by Asuka to live a peaceful life with Jack-O', who has embraced her feelings and identity as Aria rather than trying to become a SacrificialLamb for some idealized perfect version of herself. I-No is erased from existence after her FaceHeelTurn, and in a final moment of DeathEqualsRedemption gives Axl's lover and as it turns out her earlier AlternateSelf Megumi her current powers, allowing the two to finally be reunited in the current version of history. And Asuka, finally having cleaned up most of the threats to the world caused by the Universal Will, goes into retirement, starting a radio program to pass his time.]]

* BookEnds: The beginning and the end of ''Xrd'' story mode has [[spoiler:Elphelt nullifying Ramlethal's TakingYouWithMe attempt on Sol, and Ramlethal nullifying Elphelt's DyingAsYourself attempt, respectively.]]

* MilleniumBug: The world of ''Guilty Gear'' effectively came into being in 1999, when an unknown lifeform ([[spoiler:the Universal Will]]), manifested itself through electronic circuitry and caused a series of disasters for humanity, prompting the world to ban all technology and adopt magic to prevent complete societal collapse.

* DemotedToExtra: Arguably, Ky in ''Overture''. He spends a good deal of the story trapped, and even after he's freed, he only gets ONE mission.

*** Unlike most other fighting games where characters usually have couple 'standardized' moves with clear purposes (long pokes, set-play etc.) Characters in ''GG'' often rely on unorthodox and often difficult means to cover their weakness and get their game going. (Sol's reliance on hard reads, Baiken's guard-cancels, Slayer's Dandy Step for examples) This means more mental load for the players as they have to learn all 20+ ''wildly'' unique character match-ups and adjust their execution accordingly.

*** Unlike most other fighting games where characters usually have couple 'standardtized' moves with clear purposes (long pokes, setplay etc.) Characters in ''GG'' often rely on unorthodox and often difficult means to cover their weakness and get their gameplan going. (Sol's reliance on hard reads, Baiken's guard-cancels, Slayer's Dandy Step for examples) This means more mental load for the players as they have to learn all 20+ ''wildly'' unique character match-ups and adjust their execution accordingly.

*** Unlike most other fighting games where characters usually have couple 'standardtized' moves with clear purposes (long pokes, setplay etc.) Characters in ''GG'' often rely on unorthodox and often difficult means to cover their weakness and get their gameplan going. (Sol's reliance on hard reads, Baiken's guard-cancels, Slayer's Dandy Step for examples) This means more mental load for the player as they learn all 20+ ''wildly'' unique character matchups and scenarios.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Besides the usual edition transition troubles, ''Xrd'' in particular gets this because of the major changes to the Roman Cancel system and being based on ''#Reload'', four editions before ''AC+R'' and the last one Creator/DaisukeIshiwatari had a direct role developing before switching his attention to ''Overture''.

** ''Strive'' only has two large characters on launch (Potemkin and newcomer Nargoriyuki), but has a much smaller cast in comparison to the previous examples.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'':

* ComebackMechanic: One of the weakest one in a modern fighting game, in ''Xrd'', Hell Fire gives your Overdrives a 20% damage boost at low health. Due to how combo scaling and Guts works, the effect is very hard to notice.

* CoolShip: While there are a few throughout the series, the best example by far is the Mayship, flagship of the Jellyfish Pirates. It's a massive vessel vaguely shaped like a whale, fitting for the crew's nautical theme. It gets even cooler in ''Strive'' where it becomes even more whale-like, even moving it's tail and fins as if it's swimming through the skies. It even gets a squadron of mechanical fish, dolphins, manta rays, and other sea creatures flying alongside it.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: Justice's story mode in ''Accent Core Plus'' (a retelling of the first game) is something to behold.[[spoiler: Basically all arcades in the original game are turned non-canon, Justice kills Kliff, beates the crap out of everyone in the original cast with the exception of the characters that aren't in ''AC+'' (at least not how they were in the first game), fights Sol and dies after he gets a HeroicSecondWind.]]

** The Korean OST, while it's not bad at all, it's less energic than its Japanese counterpart, and it goes full blown post-apocalyptic Heavy Metal. Which... fits the whole series in a sentence. Still, it's just the Korean version.

* DressedLikeADominatrix: I-No is a mysterious cruel and manipulative woman, a playable boss in some of the games. She wears a skimpy red jacked and a red miniskirt, a choker, thigh-high boots, and a witch's hat.

* DungeonPunk: ''Guilty Gear'' is this trope.

* FanDisservice: Under normal circumstances, Raven would ''not'' be considered an ugly man, but his frightening faces and bizarre psycho-sexual mannerisms combined with being a masochistic zombie tends to give this impression. ''Xrd'' doesn't help either, as it can be seenn that he ''nearly lacks a torso''.
* FantasticAesop: Don't tamper with genes and turn creatures into magical weapons of war... because they will wipe out the Japanese.

** His father-in-law is actually [[spoiler:his [[TheRival rival]] Sol Badguy, who also turns out to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld over a century old]] ''and'' the UltimateBlacksmith who made his InfinityPlusOneSword Thunderseal.]]

* BigEater: The Neo New York stage in ''Xrd'' features a large old man in the background, sitting back and eating from a ''bag full of hamburgers'' as he watches you fight.

** His wife [[spoiler:Dizzy, due to gears having a wildly different life cycle than humans, is actually decades younger than him]]
** Their son [[spoiler:Sin is already a full grown adult at ''age 3'', again because of gears life cycle being utterly different.]]

** Further, the two girls who he basically adopted at the end of ''Revelator'', [[spoiler:Ramlethal and Elphet, ''are clones of his mother-in-law''.]]

** His wife and adopted daughters even lampshade the whole situation by questioning what they should even call [[spoiler:Sol, with Dizzy deciding on "father" and the Valentines, being artificially grown gears, considering "big brother" given Sol's identity as the very first gear.]]

* GameMod: ''Strive'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBrGETVAu0 a surprisingly robust modding scene]] for a fighting game, and one at the beginning of it's days. Mods range from alternate color palettes, intros, new particle effects, and even one that turns [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound May's Totsugeki]] in to PokemonSpeak.

A new ''Guilty Gear'' game, entitled "''Guilty Gear Strive''", was announced for a 2020 release with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAJUvy4ibeA preview trailer]] at the 2019 Evo Championship Series and confirmed for release on [=PlayStation 4=], [=PlayStation 5=] and Steam. Ky and Sol were confirmed by the initial trailer along with a new character named Nagoriyuki who wields two large katanas. Notable changes include a new corner system where characters can "break through" the corner and smash their opponents into a stage transition, changing how corner mechanics work for the first time in the series.

''Guilty Gear'' is a [[ThePowerOfRock power of rock]] FightingGame series created by Creator/ArcSystemWorks. The franchise started out as a cult classic, but [[VindicatedByHistory got noticeably better attention]] when its sequels were released.

* The first and most notable aspect of ''Guilty Gear'' is that [[VideoGameDashing air dashing]] and [[DoubleJump air mobility]] are fundamental to the series. While ''Guilty Gear'' was not the first game to feature improved air mobility or dashing in the air, it's considered the first fighting game series [[TropeCodifier to get it]] ''[[TropeCodifier right]]'' [[TropeCodifier and to control well]], particularly starting with ''Guilty Gear X''. The series features a huge number of air control options, all of which are variously good for offense, defense, etc., and various characters have different air performance envelopes, as one of the purposes of the series is to better simulate the crazy shonen anime air battles seen in works like ''Manga/DragonBall''. Even more so than a game like, say, ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', air offense is a vital part of a match, to the point that ''Guilty Gear'' and other games with a similarly large number of air mobility options (''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', etc.) are said to have "air footsies."[[note]]"Footsies" being a term used in the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity to refer to the ground-based aspect of fighters, both players out of mid-range and trying to strategically control the flow of battle by committing to their longest-ranged, generally safest moves (known as pokes) and reacting accordingly.[[/note]]

!!Mankind knew they cannot change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the Tropes. Heaven or Hell. Duel 1! Let's ROCK!

!!Duel 1! Let's ROCK!

* GameMod: ''Strive'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBrGETVAu0 a surprisingly robust modding scene]] for a fighting game, and one at the beginning of it's days. Mods range from alternate color palettes, intros, new particle effects, and even one that turns [[MostAnnoyingSound May's Totsugeki]] in to PokemonSpeak.