GUILTY GEAR LORE: Heaven Or Hell: Duel 1 [Timeline Before GG1] 

I was jamming to it ngl. GG music is so good I don't blame you lol

Yo woolz for future parts, could you put on screen the source of each part of the lore for the masochists watching please? Part of me wants to do a deep dive after watching this

Appreciate it! That was my only nitpick of the whole thing. I love this series to death overall ever since I played the Japanese demo on the Playstation Underground disk they used to send out monthly back in ye olden days. It is fascinating to finally see everything in a coherent timeline like this.

Nah, son! You started the video off with THE EXACT RIGHT SONG. Vortex Infinitum is my glory and my lord.

May we have another please please please!!!!!

Dude I'd loose my shit if Slayer was Khan Krum the Roman Slayer because of all te Roman cancels

Alright, that one got me.

Now every time I hear "Roman Cancel", in my head will echo the phrase "Istanbul, not Constantinople".

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

@@tsarzamancorpdna Khan Krum died 400~500 years before that.

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH.

Yeah, we kinda knew already lol

@@SophistictaedDevil Maybe you did but a majority of the GG's "community" doesn't even play GG and even less people know the lore. Woolie wouldn't be doing this series if they did.

HOLY SHIT THEN THAT MUST MEAN HE HAS BECOME THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM

@@N00BSYBORG Im just glad that he's not only a Gorilla, but a fucking genius Gorilla

But it's *magic* genetic engineering, so it's okay!

Honestly it's pretty realistic

and there were no problems for 50 years

@@android19willpwn There were immediate problems, the facility got destroyed with the first test subject and they stopped. It just took 40-50 years for them to try again. From which we get the popular saying, "if at first you don't cause an apocalypse, try, try again".

I just heard Dotodoya in the "LET'S GOOOOOO!" part. lmfao

He didn't say that

that's actually a mistranslation. In the Japanese version, he says " レタスは私の好きな食べ物です" which roughly translates to TRANS RIGHTS

@@Tankirb Fuck yeah

@@Tankirb truuuuu

@@Tankirb HELLLLLL YEAHHHHHH

it already has a season 3... it's called XRD story mode

Or an open world RPG series but with fighting game combat, set during the war!

open world rpg and animu are terrible ideas. The you try you will fail to meet expectations. As is the nature of narratives made through piece meal lore. Everyone has a version of the story in the their heads. Events occurs but in what exact ways is in the head of everyone's mind. Kinda like 40k lore really. Also Y2K caused mass technophobia... So I conclude the world of GG are full of literal imbeciles.

@@ceresbane But that is exactly what Elder Scrolls fans loved about Elder Scrolls lore, and it is mostly an open world RPG series. It was at it's best when most of the lore was gleaned from npcs of rival alignments giving you their version of the truth, and lore books that often contradict each other at points or are fictional works within the fictional world. That is how lore should work because that is how what we call 'reality' and 'knowledge' also works in the real world.

@@ANPC-pi9vu It wouldn't work for GG however. The point of the cast is that they are exceptional beyond any mortal pleb in the universe. If you were a OC in those times you would never EVER be able to do anything close to what they achieve or you'd be a main character too. And no you can't play the, your deeds were never in recorded history crap. Because even secret societies are recorded in the lore.

It's Daisuke LOL

I did the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the tv gif when he said this

That was literally my reaction 😱😱😱

Ohhh right because he started it and he himself is a gear and is taking measures to correct the actions his research spurred on. Ohhhh shit

i fucking wheezed

Thankfully I wasn’t the only one who went: 👁👄👁 how slick, Daisuke

I'm honestly hoping aria is the last character

@@ApexGale Wasn't Aria used to make Justice somehow?

@@enveritas4948 Yes, that's correct. But in the events of Xrd Rev2, we find out that Jack-O was an imperfect clone of Aria with her memories. At the end of Rev2 Jack-O fuses with Justice and it revives Aria.

@@ApexGale ok

Why is this giving me Kingdom Hearts vibes?

Then there's May, she is just a pirate, and that's about it.

@@Doomroar Uh, no, she's *also* secretly Japanese. Ok *now* that's it.

the fact that Jhonny was already in jail before the games is the icing on the cake tho

@@Gustavozxd13 So that explains why he isn't in game. Back in 1999 when I played the first game, I was legit curious on how badass Johnny was since May kept talking about him whenever she wins a match.

HOLY ORDER TESTAMENT WHEN?!

Thank you very much for your service

You did a fantastic job editing this. It's clear to understand but still stylish. Amazing work.

wait until you find out about Tom Oliver's PCP University Lecture on the Guilty Gear timeline ;)

@@gg.no.re. I mean, that video also have some questionable stuff. It's very good, but not perfect

@@iker-jk2096 im sure plenty of folks have their hand raised after this video. It is the most streamlined version of events of the tournament and things before that. This wont be the toughest video though. Not even close.

16, isn't considered child soldier anymore. also, those child soldiers were a necessary evil for the survival of mankind, and who better to succeed you than a soldier that you raised who understands your organization so well?

Ky was 16 that's not a child soldier

Just like Willy Wonka.

"Today I am going to fight Kliff Undersn." "Damn. Kliff got hands."

Man Sol Badguy is a beast. Even Justice and Kliff were like "Damn, this dude is legit"

​@@skyslashnova4308 bruh I aint posting that shit, I get my ass beat

Absolutely.

They really want people up to date before Strive launches. They're also uploading the whole Xrd story mode in their channel and stuff.

Woolie is finally canon.

@@KTH96 Yeah, that was confirmed when Nagoriyuki was teased. jk

How do you know?

Sponsered by Arc Sys,so money.

So is it true Sol is Dizzy's dad?

@@KylePhantasm Assuming Justice is actually Aria then yes. There is more content that supports this theory than reject it.

@@CarlTheSpud watch the story mode of XRD revelator, it shows justice as Aria

@@CarlTheSpud ahh ok, thanks

And then it skips right to the end of WWII immediately after. Lmao.

I'd say he's doing pretty fine right now, albeit confused

I've often asked "How" in regards to Guilty Gear, but it's usually "HOW THE HECK...?"

Guilty Gear is the manifestation of Sol badguy

isn't Sol *the* Guilty - Gear

maybe the true guilty gear is the friends we made along the way

Only a good portion of those missing pieces don't really matter to the main plot.

Wait wait wait... there's official manga?!

@@blackpants7385 Doesn't matter to my world building boner.

Kinda funny that Japan doesn't exist anymore in the GG universe xD

Fortunately now we have Woolie to tell us the full lore!

This us probably the biggest point missed in the video

It's good to leave corrections. In fact I'd say lore videos are the only instance in which being the "actually" should be completely appreciated.

This is actually a pretty important note. Woolie should pin this.

@@robotto5247 Or address it at the start of the next part.

Don’t apologize, if crucial lore bits are left out they gotta be addressed

What explain

Pain

Lored

Nah, Woolie is just doing a sponsored. The OG lore-lord was the guy who did the three-hour PCP lecture on the lore like two years ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q6lXDUj1ilk.html

@Malum You make a fair number of points that I agree with. Woolie's presentation is more digestable and just plain better in terms of straight quality (once he patches the audio). And having the audience of basically hecklers that you need to mentally turn off does kind of gate the PCP experience. But I'll say this, I respect Oliver for trying to tell a hostile audience a story that he wanted to tell. For trying to tell the world that "this story is interesting*" when no other content with comparable reach or depth was being created on youtube. Woolie can dial up the Guilty Gear lore team on moments notice for the best info, that's true. But it wasn't until what I only understand as a sponsorship, because that's what the description says, was achieved by Woolie did he decide that his platform was worth telling the Guilty Gear story on. Don't get me wrong, I think Woolie LOVES Guilty Gear, as game to be played. I believe that Woolie will give his usual 200% when putting this story out there. What I don't think, is that he would have done this without some sort of impetus, i.e. the sponsorship. Woolie will do this well, I'd bet money on that. Additionally, Woolie will talk about fight games for passion's sake alone, we know this too be true from everything he did pre-TBFP, and that passion, that "I want to do this because I am internally motivated to do so," strikes a chord with me. Am I making any sense or not really?

@@blue6sub6remnant6 While I totally get you, don't forget that this is the same guy who will take any chance he can get to talk about GG lore on the podcast before getting reeled in by Pat. Just looking at the presentation alone, I can easily tell that this is something Woolie has wanted to do but, as he frequently expresses, was always too afraid to do in fear of getting harsh negative feedback. We all know by now how much that affects him. If anything, I'm betting this is a Ghost of Tsushima situation, where Woolie would have done it down the line, but the sponsorship gave him a reason to get started right away. And man, the PCP lecture really would have been much better if Munchie would just shut up, huh?

@@Who_is_Ari "And the PCP lecture really would have been much better if Muchie would shut up, huh?" Yes.

Same bro

Lol TRUEEEEE

This is correct

If anyone is coked out here, it's definitely Kingdom Hearts. I mean fighting googly eyed shadow boogey men along side Disney Characters sounds like something you'd see in an acid trip compared to GG that actually follows historical events.

@@Laughing_Individual Just like acid, Kingdom Hearts always ends with people talking about how much friendship means to them.

@@ThatOneGuy0006 And pretty much every GG ends with "perhaps we were the guilty gear all along".

Also is this another elaborate shitpost Woolie?

@@AlfredoTaken it always is

He's everybody's Mr. Badguy

And the MUSIC and Art!

I been playing since the ps1 days and still didnt know all this went down lol

Same here, I love games that have extensive lore. Ironic thing is I know more about a game’s backstory than my friends who actually play the games thanks to RU-vid 😂

COme back in every so often or you'll die out there.

He's exact age is unknown

PPO poppp pppopp. Po popppppp op. P op popp

With the first one being the PCP University lecture?

And this one doesn't feature a manchild interrupting every 5 minutes.

@@presquenolife Digibro's not a manchild, he's a womanchild now.

@@Blackcloud288 Yeah what's up with that? I checked in with his channel and had no idea what the fuck was happening.

@@Blackcloud288 I was thinking of Munchy actually, but I understand the confusion.

The PCP one is good doe

@@basedfilthyman5915 it's good, but some people just want the information without jokes, banter, and tangents. This finally gives those people a handy resource beyond wiki-diving.

@@android19willpwn This video is helping me a lot with my own Guilty Gear related project, this helped me clear up a few errors I made.

Woolie's vids so far have gotten the point across much faster than the PCP Lecture guys. even if I think they revealed the "twists" better (sol is Frederick, Ky fugged Dizzy, Valentine looks exactly like Aria ect.) than how Woolie has so far I'd rather someone who stays on topic than the screeching about Ponies in the middle of things.

Would you say you're on the... Birthday Train?

@@Terithian The Birthday HYPE train

1998 was a mistranslation? I always thought it was kind of weird that Axl supposedly came from just one year before the dawn of revival.

Just a thing, the wiki does say that the slip of 200 years was in 1998, so, I don't know.

Glad to see you here

@@PLATINUM_Rook Axl came from 1984. Honestly I have no idea where Woolie got 1998 from. It states the year in just about every story material Axl has ever been in.

@@gearhead6042 It comes from Axl's arcade mode in SIGN. Axl asks I-no to return him to his home: "20th century Costwolds! My street! May 14th, 1998!"

I noticed that too.

No actually justice won the battle but was in a really bad shape and she did find that sol was a gear during the fight and try to control sol but fail during her confusion they were able to seal justice

Are you sure about the gear thing? I remember that she did discovered before the tournament, and then checked the wiki and in Justice page it says that she finded out in the battle before they sealed her. But then again, the new web comic makes it look like she discovered in the tournament

In Justice's story in Vanilla XX, she finds out Sol is a gear during their fight in 2175 before Ky seals her.

@@DrEarthwormRobotnik It's not canon. There's actually a lot of stuff in the X2 series (#R and AC+) that has kind of a weird canon status. It's a bit of a mess so I don't anyone for making this mistake but when you hear about "GG Retcons" most of them come from the X2 series.

Bruh, same. All I knew was Baiken is the SICKEST, and this has explained so much