The Stages and Art of GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- 

What are your favorite stages and character designs from Guilty Gear -Strive-?

I can definitely believe that this guy was an ABA fan from her rendition in Strive. He and the team really took her design to the next level.

what with many, _many_ controversies strive has been involved with since the first beta, im glad that one thing most people have agreed upon up until now is that the game is absolute eye candy. arcsys really peaked with their art direction here.

0:13 VERNON SECRET SEASON 4 FIFTH CHARACRER CONFIRMED ?????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I love Guilty Gear’s art direction in general, but they knocked it out of the park with Strive. These kind of interviews only make my love for the game grow, because you can really see the hard work all of the artists and designers do behind the scenes. When it comes to character designs in Strive its a bit hard to decide because everyone looks super cool, but i would say Axl and I-no probably have the best redesigns. I love how they look in this game and how it reflects their journey as characters as well. ABA and Testament also had amazing redesigns as well. And of course, Nagoriouki has to be one of the best designs of the series. He is extremely cool and he fits so well in the game that its easy to forget that this is his first appearance in the series. Every stage in the game is extremelly beautiful, and I love the small glimpses they give us of the everyday life of people in the GG wolrd, but "Fallen Prayers, Engulfed Lives" is on another level. The ocean looks astonishing and it reminds me of that important talk between Ino and Axl in Xrd (yeah those 2 are my favourite characters, im not hiding my bias). "L'oro Di Illyria" is another very beautiful stage. I hope every artist and programmer working on the game knows that every bit of love and dedication they put on their work is noticed, appreciated and keeps inspiring a lot of us to do our best in our art as well.

Legends. I truly think Guilty Gear is one of the best examples of how cool Japanese entertainment can be and a big part of that is its amazing visuals and music. I hope they keep making games forever and they should be very proud indeed.

my favorite GG backgrounds, followed by my favorite GG character designs: ⚪️❄️12D FLUX OBSERVATORY(strive) ⚪️🔭TÍR NA NÓG (strive) ⚪️ 🪷GROVE (accent core) 💕 ⚪️ ⚡️UNKNOWN (i-no) (reload) ⚪️ 🪼JELLYFISH KYARIUM (strive) ⚪️ DRAGONICA FALLS (xrd) ⚪️ 🕉️7TH HEAVEN DISTRICT (strive) ⚪️ ⚙️ILLYRIA CASTLE WAR ROOM (xrd) ⚪️ NIRVANA (x) i-no aba anji nago slayer new elphelt new faust og baiken OG testament og millia happy chaos

My wallet is ready for a guilty gear art book

This games art is just phenomenal, I’m hoping at the end of strives dlc run we can get an art book of all the consept including the stuff not currently in game

People like to say that Strive lost some of Guilty Gear’s visual identity. I think the stages prove completely otherwise, 5:06 shows it off best to me❤ My only wish is that they optimised the stages a bit better. It’s a shame that we don’t see many of them more often 💔

Strive has some of the most fantastic stages of any fighting game I’ve played. Asuka’s stage has gotta be my favorite.

Seeing creators being so passionate about their work is what truly inspires. Thank you, arcsys!

This is incredible

Is there an art book

Truly Daisuke's vision

amazing video

mistake on the spelling of Tir Na Nog, at 11:46 it says Tir A Nog

I do admire the art and skill of Arcsys designers but honestly I am not a big fan of stage direction in Xrd and Strive. It feels too vanilla to me compared to the XX series that was really "metal" with skulls and demons. I wish we would go back to that artstyle.

Really cool video!

Arcsys are still masters at their craft, can’t wait to see how the art will evolve in their next project!

It feels great when the devs are fans themselves. Thanks for the video!

As someone who started with Xrd Sign I have no idea why Strive gets so much hate from older heads. It is so unbelievably forced. Like, yeah, it's not better than Rev2, but it's still a damn good fighting game. Just because its different doesn't mean it isnt GG. There's so much passion and love put into it, and it's fun af.

Truly Daisuke's Vision. The way they say they didn't know what specifically is Daisuke's plan for all this, is funny.

Theres a bit of desync on the subtitles at the end

I, a guy from Ohio watched this entire thing and loved to see their pride in what they made. That pride is well deserved.

All this beauty. depth of thought and creative genius on display... and yet the game's UI is so bland and simple. I don't appreciate the contrast, it's beneath such a rich artistic legacy. I hope one day it's elevated to the same standard as everything else in the game. Brilliant interview, so grateful to hear their thoughts on the series and it's heart-warming to see their pride and love for a series I also cherish.

the strive redesigns mostly suck with the exception of slayer and eddie and ab lol edit: after watching the video and seeing that a lot is about the stages I will concede that the stages look good