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Similar doesn't mean that they all have to have the very exact same designs. They're all young-looking women with extreme personalities (Valentine and Ram are more doll-like, El is the complete opposite), wearing ridiculous hats and dresses (Ram and original have bat-winged creatures), all of them are capable of fighting, all of them end up being involved with Sol Badguy, etc. You said yourself that they all have a connection with Mother, meaning their similarities aren't just superficial. Valentine and Ram came from the Backyard and from the cutscene we know that Ram knows who El is. If you put them all together they would definitely look like they belong in the same crew. Also, it's not like they're just a bunch of characters who are coincidentally named Valentines. Valentines are an actual thing in the Guilty Gear universe, so it makes sense for them to have similarities. Similar doesn't mean they're 100% the same, it just means they resemble each other in many aspects, which they do.

Both have goofy hats, silly boob dresses, (El doesn't have a bat-like creature but Ram does), emotional problems (Valentine and Ram are mostly deadpan while El knocks herself out just by thinking) and they talk about okaa-san. I can definitely see the similarities between the Valentines.

I want Sol, Faust and Millia to go on fun adventures.

Does Ishiwatari actually play the games? Is there footage of him playing as Sol?

hey man, it might be canon. Not just fanficiton

I'm hoping he has command grabs, and some cool sword moves. It would be boring if all he does is slash. Maybe he can drop the sword and go bare knuckle. Or he can stab the ground with one of his swords, leave it there and if the enemy gets damaged if it touches the shining cross. Arcsys should be creative with this

Theory: Ramlethal is just a pawn on her shogi board. She came from the Backyard because of Mother. Mother sensed something strange on the other side, an anomaly that bothers her. Maybe it had the potential to become dangerous, to somehow affect the Backyard where she lives, or maybe it just makes her angry and she wants it destroyed. She could have ordered Ram to go and eliminate people or maybe it was Ram's choice to just declare war on humankind (because she likes to destroy/have a purpose). Maybe Ram wanted to impress her Mother. The Backyard shouldn't be able to be affected by the other world, but what if Mother felt a presence/power that shouldn't be there? Ramlethal eventually fights Sol Badguy in Japan and threatens to kill him. Elphelt who also knows about Mother, stops Ram. Sol Badguy has been feeling something weird for a long time now. His powers keep fluctuating, sometimes he's growing stronger, sometimes he feels weaker. Gears have always been involved in magic. The Backyard affects their reality, and their world itself sometimes phases in and out of existence. The magic involved with Gears might have something to do with this, maybe they even amplify this effect. Many of the world's leaders are concerned about this. What if the world just suddenly gets erased? Sol Badguy also wants to investigate this. So Sol traveled the world for answers, learning more about the Backyard, magic and the Valentines. He eventually concludes that he must confront this "Mother". So he figures out a way to get to the Backyard (he asks a more mellow Ramlethal to teleport him there). He feels an immense pressure as soon as he enters that world, like he's being crushed. He was suddenly flung back to his real world, away from the Backyard. No one knows who could have done that. Sol didn't prepare a means of escape, he didn't even know if he could turn back. But now he has a chance to prepare himself. He knows the other world is brutal, and simply existing in it can mean death. But he is a Gear, and he is motivated to stop what is happening to his world. The source of their reality is the Backyard, and Mother is in there. He has no choice but to get back in there and try and stop reality from being destroyed. Sol Badguy is in his secret laboratory creating new weapons, testing out his magic, trying to make devices that will help him. Suddenly Sin barges in with another man. Apparently Sin is reckless as usual and getting into fights with strangers. Sin lead Faust all the way to Sol's secret hideout. "Yare Yare daze" Sol points his newly crafted weapon at Faust. He tells them to fight somewhere else and stop bothering him. Faust stops attacking Sin and asks Sol what he's doing. Sol tells him that it's none of his business. Sin takes this opportunity to try and Napalm Death a distracted Faust. Suddenly Faust was under the floor, then coming from the ceiling. He was all over the place, materializing things out of nowhere, attacking Sin from multiple directions. Sol notices this and becomes interested in Faust's powers. He got up and did a 5K 5S 2D into a Volcanic Viper. He FRCd his gunflame and Bandit Revolver'd Faust so hard that a big part of his laboratory just exploded. After a long fight he stopped and asked Faust about the problem the world is facing. Things are popping in and out of existence, gravity is changing in random places, weather and temperature makes no sense, sometimes snowing out of nowhere while it's hot. It's like reality is malfunctioning. Sol asks Faust about his teleportation/space-time powers. They get into a discussion about the Backyard and Mother. Faust, wanting to help the people of the world decides to help Sol get to Mother. He suggests that they find more people to help them in their cause. Sol prefers to be alone, but he got used to company with Sin around. They test out Sol's inventions, which are meant to influence time and space using magic and technology, distort reality in some way. Hilarious and wacky situations occur (that should be used in gag scenes, if there are any in story mode) Sin is transformed at one point into a more mature Gear state and he killed half the population in some nearby village before Sol knocked him out. Sol and Faust learn more about teleporation and space-time manipulation. During a later training session, Sin managed to hit Sol in the face but his weapon was destroyed in a strange way. Sol didn't dodge and it's not like his weapon phased out of reality for that split second. It's like Sol influenced the existence of that weapon and used that part of reality to destroy it somehow. With all the weird things happening in the world, they're not surprised by this. What if Sol also has the "something" that manipulates time and space? Sol and Faust try even harder to create devices that can help them survive in the Backyard. They eventually came up with something that 'reduces pressure'. The devices will allow Sol to move around freely in the Backyard without being crushed by manipulating the existence around it with magic. Those devices are tiny machines that Sol strapped all over his body with even more belts. Sol also came up with gear that makes him incredibly fast, to the point that he can run faster than the speed of light (the gear amplifies magic and the "something" around him, bending reality itself to make his speed illogical). Faust helped him make an armor-like object called Aria, a little device placed somewhere on his headband that protects him from danger. It also uses magic and that "something" to defy logic and reality, defending against powerful attacks by influencing time and space. They worked on these to ensure that Sol can defend himself against Mother's children. As they traveled and fought, picking up information along the way, they met Millia Rage. In typical GG way, their conversation ended up in a fight. Millia didn't stand a chance. She got friggin Wild Throw'd into a Black Onslaught of fire slashes. Faust took her back to the hideout and healed her. When Millia woke up, Faust told her about their situation, how they're all in danger and how hard they're trying to infiltrate the Backyard. Millia didn't believe him at first, until Sol showed her his new inventions. Machines that can bend reality in some ways. Of course, they weren't perfect, their powers sometimes "stuttered" and stopped working at all. He decides to leave the gear in the lab until he can improve them. Millia did remember the weird things that she witnessed, and being afraid of what might happen to everyone. She decides to help. Sol needed a lot of things for his laboratory, things that they don't just sell anywhere. They needed to borrow things from certain facilities. Him and Faust were busy so Millia had to go and steal components from many different places. A lot of those facilities are off-limits and she got in a lot of trouble. She came face to face with a king, Leo Whitefang. After a stalemate fight, Millia convinces Leo that she needs the components for a greater cause. Leo can tell she is honest, and trusts in her. Millia gathers all the components and Sol gets to work upgrading his gear. They spent a few more months upgrading and training. Sol, Sin, Millia and Faust became great allies. The world was going through even more chaos, random space-time distortions and natural disasters increased. They decided they couldn't wait any longer and it was time for Sol to go meet Mother. Sol told Millia that there is possibility for failure, and asks her to take care of Sin if he doesn't come back. Millia doesn't hesitate and promises to care for Sin and his lab. For a second, Sol seems to think about a certain girl when he sees Millia's smile. He mutters "Yare yare daze" with a grin. He puts on his new gear, which was designed to look exactly like his old gear. He knows he is strong enough to survive the pressure of the Backyard, now all he needs to do is confront Mother before the world gets rekt. Before he leaves, he grabs Millia and Faust and brings them closer to him, in a big tight hug. He is reminded of old times with "them two". When he got to the Backyard, he realized he was in the same place as before. But looking through the fog, he sees two gigantic creatures. They look part animal and part machine. They act as "monitors" and destroy things that aren't supposed to be there. During Sol's first visit someone flung him out of that world, but he knew it couldn't be those two. Maybe it was Mother or one of her children. Sol unleashes space-time distorting gunflames and dashes around the place at lightspeed. He could still somewhat feel the Backyard's 'pressure' but they feel more like a tickle to him now. After killing anything in his way, he managed to find a colossal tower that seems to pierce the heavens. Lightspeed really made exploring easy for him. Getting somewhere is almost like teleportation rather than running because of how fast he is. He quickly reaches the top of the tower, and enters the only room there. It was a dirty mechanical room. With wires all over and an unknown fluid on the floor. There was only one person in that room, who is surrounded by monitors. Sol knew that face. He now knows who Mother is.

New grappler can be fun. SF has a lot of funny grapplers. I think it would only improve the GG cast. Kirino is in a fighting game and Gamagoori isn't.

Not arguing at all. It was more like a suggestion. And what I personally want. Don't tell me you don't want another grappler in the cast? It would be fun.

Or they could just make another grappler. We all know how amazing Tager is. He slams people from outer space!

Walkable lobbies Justice Mike Z starts to like the game Leo is actually Bridget Custom soundtrack, able to play any song on PS3/PS4 Anime adaptation Costumes Justice

After all these years, I will finally hear ganframe and pochemukin bastah dubbed. There is a 99% chance that subbed will sound better though, because Dio Brando, Mako, Gamagoori, Gon Freecs, Kotomine Kirei, etc. voices. Walkable lobbies

The hidden character will be a girl wearing a fancy cloak/dress and a goofy looking hat. Her last name will be valentine and she will be a grappler. Her command list is all command grabs.

Yes because outstanding fighting capabilities automatically means Makoto. Him using swords also means he's Makoto.

I'm pretty sure that's just the avatar.

The innocent looking character with gun: Bulleta, kinda. And Peacock. But they're very different in terms of design, personality and gameplay.

Leo is eventually revealed to be the guy everyone seemed to ignore back then. The king was someone whom everyone met but forgotten. He used to look physically smaller. He was known for fighting with yoyos. He's come a long way.

You're not wrong. Is El the first fighting game character that can freely aim and shoot around the screen with a non-super move?

Maybe in the next version they'll add it? I still don't like the fact GG is making a comeback yet Arcsys put small team on its development. Meanwhile BB and Ultimax have big rosters and walkable lobbies. I want dem walkable lobbies. It's so immersive.

The Xrd lobbies look so awkward. A bunch of faces around arcade machines..and some of them are turned sideways. So there's no cute avatar you can walk around with?

Yeah, getting real tired of these sword users. I want another grappler. Or at least a boxer/kung fu guy. I think the Guilty Gear team needs more creativity.

Hazama isn't bad, just really overrated. DURR HE LAUGHS A LOT AND INSULTS PEOPLE WHAT A BAD GUY XDDD His fedora and darkness blades is so le evil XD I main Terumi, and he's great. The DARKNESS power and generic villain laugh is pretty good. Hazama is a better villain because he's more fleshed out and obnoxious. The problem with GG characters is that they're one-dimensional compared to BB characters. BB's longer story mode, gag reels, all that really makes the characters better. The writing is shit, but at least there are a lot of character interactions. I think if I-No had her own long story mode that actually stayed consistent (GG's writing is also shit) she would actually be just as good of a villain.Didn't I-No in one of the timelines lure a young Ky to get eaten by a Gear and she got off to his screams or whatever? Also, Hazama cut off Ragna's arm in the past. I-No literally took Sol to the past and made him kill his past self. If I-No was more fleshed out as a character, I'm pretty sure she would be just as villainous as Hazama. Hazama/Terumi is a cackling monkey that insults everyone around him. I-No is the same way, but I think she was so bad that it was censored in arcades. Also, her comment to May about drinking Johnny's milk was very amusing. She's voiced by Kikuko Inoue which is a big plus in my book. Also, about Bridget. He wasn't made because of overused memes. Go to the 15 min mark >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQBGTvJrpg Daisuke commented about him. Ishiwatari just wanted to make a character that was more unique. You don't see a lot of yoyo-wielding catholic nun boys that fight with burning bladed teddy bears in fighting games. So I consider Bridget unique. Blazblue is even more guilty of this with Amane. By the time Amane came out the "trap" trope was even more overused in comparison to when Bridget first appeared. Also don't talk shit about Bridget when the main heroine of Blazblue is just a boring version of him design-wise. (Also crossed with Sion from Melty Blood)

When Xrd comes out: "Man, Elphelt is just a rip-off of Noel!" (Because Noel is obviously first gun-toting girl in fighting games. Forget Jill, Sharon, BB Hood, etc. and the fact that she just looks like Sion with a Bridget color palette ) "Leo is big so he's Azrael!" (Even though Azrael just looks like Barbatos with a goatee and tattoos) "Ramlethal is a clone of Taokaka!" (Actually seen this comment a lot. Obviously if a character is brown, that means they copied Taokaka. Taokaka herself is completely original, it's not like she's a black mage from FF mixed with a catgirl. Totally not inspired by Hsien-Ko or Felicia at all.) "The Senato guys are rip-offs of Q from Street Fighter!" (As if Q himself wasn't a rip-off of Robot Detective K) But yeah people are going to keep saying the new characters are from something. I love Blazblue, the best game Arcsys has made gameplay-wise. But it's not exactly the pinnacle of originality. Dante the Bloodedge is cool guy

Leo is 2moe4me. Anyway, Guilty Gear always had moe and cutesy characters. It was never grimdark shit. Sol Badguy now has a cute ribbon on his ponytail and Ky looks like Saber's twin sister. Of course I-No, May, Millia, Bedman, Ram, and El look pretty as always. I do think the cast should be balanced though, there's way too much moe and not enough bad-asses. They should add fedora-wearing hipster edgelords. And they should have a generic villain cackle and have DARKNESS powers.

So are May's dolphins actually slower? For some reason Chipp doesn't look as fast as he was in +R. Is it just the general speed of the game or some specific moves got slower?