Remember, his name is Kliff

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I remember Baiken (secret boss) being theorized of being 'that man' (and that man being a mistranslation) as people though she only appeared in Sol Arcade story if you beat it without any continue

I completed it as Sol and Ky, i tried with Zato, but haven't beaten Justice yet.

@@jml5227 I'm still stuck on Stage 9 Sol. That one fight took me from a button mashing noob to being actually competent at a fighting game for the first time outside Soul Calibur 3. I actually learned to play defense well because he forced me to lol. Playing GGX Advance in GG1 mode for the only other Missing Link style game lately and it's astonishing how good I got by repeatedly beating my head against the original Daisuke wall for a few days. I can do 50 rounds in GG1 mode survival easy enough but I still can't quite beat Arcade Sol in the real thing lmao. Also holy shit GGXA has no business being that damn good as both GGX and a pseudo Missing Link 2 with three versions of every character and an extensive custom recolor option for every one of them, on the GBA. That's as impressive as the anime come to life visuals of Fighterz and Strive in its own insanely ambitious way imo.

@@zeroattentiongaming820 i played GGX+ with a translation web site to understand the story mode, and when I saw the branching stories it blew my mind away. And the fact that a lot of them had consistency in what happened with each character (Zato/Millia/Venom stories as an example) was the cherry on top.

I beat the game with everyone. I think my least favorite character to play the arcade mode with as either Baldhead or May.

Even worse than that: Kliff is so heartbroken, that even completely brainwashed, Testament can’t help but _apologize_ for the hell he put his father through

Don't worry, it all pays out in the end big time for him.

Testament: Lol I duped everyone in the tournament Justice: Ever heard of "That Man"? Baiken: (Please try again to reach secret encounter)

That means i wouldn't completly blame him for his actions if he was out of it, Poor guy. It's much easier to redeem him than someone like Zato who killed people on purpose. And Testament was being mind controlled and forced against their will, its not their fault too. Very redeemable.

+R is my personal favorite in the series, but as rough around the edges Missing Link may be there's a real refreshing honesty and passion put into it. I think that's why the game managed to spawn a franchise

@@hasi706 Hell, I still bust out Missing Link for an occasional arcade playthrough for that very reason.

When that eye turns red...

I said 'one more present' was required... And I shall bring that present! My cake is all that's needed... Justice will achieve a happy birthday party!

@@mustardwizard And so, with a grateful smile, the ultimate Gear enjoyed his cake

25 years old now, over a decade older than i am, and i got into the series only two years ago

uplifting and sad at the same time

Threw away her cape...😅

I kinda hate that whole "beat the game only to watch your character get F'd over" thing, when that's supposed to be the good ending.

But Zato totally deserved what happened in his ending. And if you look at the bigger picture, Faust (Funny how nobody calls him "dr baldhead) did get a good ending... better than remaining a schizophrenic serial killer forever.

@@felipecosta-kv2fx I didn’t say what zato got was unfair

@@rodrigorosa4419 Good thing we both agree... and i wasn't judging you, sorry if it came off that way

@@felipecosta-kv2fx don’t worry, I didn’t take it as that you were judging

*Let me crave your way intensively*

You could also say that it's... captivating.

Thanks! Usually, in fighting games, I tend to practice mostly every character and try to get all of their endings as much as possible. But man, it's not like I'm good with every character. Kinda like Axl, it took me like 2 hours of non-stop retries just to beat Justice, I know how it feels trying to beat Justice. Justice's spammable special chest death beam of hers (can do 3x in a row, it's crazy) was an insane boss fight to deal with. One of the hardest fighting game boss I've ever dealt with believe me. This is just an extra, but umm... If you like to know more about the first Guilty Gear game, I made a full review out of it, that covers every bit of the game possible :) you could try checking it out on my channel if you wanna

The chest beam was something else. It and the clockwise eyebeam

I managed to beat the game with all characters and it was extremely hard with some of them. Justice gets more aggressive as life goes down and there's this "hidden" mechanic that gives characters infinite overdrives, when they start flashing a red aura. Justice abused of this and loved to spam the overdrive.

If you get a knockdown with any character, you can keep walking up as they're knocked down, walk just out of range right as they get up, and then throw them. Loop forever, works with every character.

I tried four characters, sol, axl, zato and may and I could only defeat justice with sol and axl

It's sad they didn't put any effort into the story of it much there. They end up redeeming it on the X2 version of the game instead

Guilty Gear X Plus actually had a straight up story mode. Sadly, the game was never translated to english.

@@A_B_1917, unfortunately, yeah, The GGX Plus version even has a gallery, mission mode, and even both Justice and Kliff there. Not sure why some games in JP have more content into it compared to the translated versions.

@@K1PM I still play the Guilty Gear X version still can’t unlock the black and gold characters I did unlock justice and cliff thought

​@@exterminator6935 If I remember it correctly... You gotta set in the "Guilty Gear Mode" on the options to have their black and gold characters, then press a specific button or something. The Guilty Gear mode is really difficult to pull off though. Gotta have to beat that 100 level survival mode, I only got lucky beating it with Faust. His spam attack can really confuse the AI that badly

I think it's "The Missing Link", but Sol's ending has a different variation instead. Both sounds really great though!

Here it is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMuhZ9GqkuDaiX0.html

"Beyond the Dark Life"

Well, Yes. Back then the lore ese a bit more...scarse. But now has a plenty of lore and a lot of stuff has been edited.

ohh sht, I didn't notice that one xD thanks for the reminder of it, damn typos

@@K1PM np 😎👍

Ah yes, Kiff Undersn, partner of Zepp Brannigan

I know Faust was a lunatic back then. But after getting his ending again... I didn't expect Faust to be this crazy

Man, that sucks. It's just a short amount of work to translate those short dialogues, and they didn't bother working on it.

@@K1PM or they could've grabbed the US version and just convert it to PAL, since the US version had everything in check.

it's either : A) he probably needed a sample of blood, not a literal sacrifice, so he used the fights between everyone to his own advantage. B) fighting games are wildly criticized whenever huge roster changes are made (i.e soulcalibur v, sf3 new generation, tekken 4 etc.) so they can't really allow the death of most of the cast, especially not when only a handful of characters were introduced in TML, which is why retcons were made in the following games in order to prevent such an outrageous plot.

@@No-mn9do thank you :) I want to believe it's option A, retcon would be sad

I think there's no seperate name for Ky's ending. I tried searching for it, but can't seemed to find it

@@K1PM damn. Thank you for trying

@@jaganshi1753 It's not on youtube, but Arc System Works on spotify has the track on there. It's titled "NO!! -Ky's Ending-"

@@jamgrams3244 awesome! Thank you!

@@jaganshi1753 No prob

Unfortunately yeah, they can't be selected on the arcade mode. Can only be selected on the vs mode or practice mode, iirc

Pretty sure Baiken was supposed to but the game had development issues so she got converted into a vague secret character. They actually made that into canon, where she didn't take part in the tourney and was off to the side investigating it for connections to That Man.

Some of the story even gets darker on the PS2 version of the game, having different story routes that could lead to a bad end

which one you're referring to? Is it this one perhaps "Death and Republic"

@@K1PM when they're talking to testament but never mind I found it

@@IsaiahBuchanan175 It is 'Death and Republic'. It probably is on youtube somewhere.

@@maxmercurythemm827 when they're talking to testament

Nah, I think not all of the endings here are canon. As far as I could remember... Sol was the one who's able to finish off Justice in the end. Some of the other endings like Ky Kiske, May, and Kliff are kinda like a half-canon thing. Except they weren't the ones who've beaten Justice in the end of course. But some of the parts of their ending did happened, like when Ky Kiske ends up questioning his own beliefs

Canonically only Sol beat Testament and Justice

The manga on the strive website had both sol and ky's endings happen with them both being present, and then it showed the last shots of the other endings happened

None of the GG1 endings are canon, but rather bits and pieces of them are while no whole ending is true. X2 did a lot of retcons.

Sol canonically killed Justice, but Ky was able to get some words in with Justice, where her speech causes Ky to question her beliefs. Most of the other endings happen regardless, like Johnny busting out of jail, Eddie possessing Zato, or Millia gaining a fan. The only ending that's not even remotely canon is Kliff's, but that's because Justice just flat out killed him during the tournament.

TBF their voice sounded female in X2, so even though it was a retcon, it was one going farther back than Overture/Xrd.

Daisuke stated in an interview he had certain plot points planned all along while others he came up with retroactively. I think he definitely had the general idea of Sol's backstory down early, though he has also stated he didn't start thinking about Aria until Overture

As someone said in comments here, Justice pronouns were neutral in the Japanese version so it’s more of a translation error

Justice had gender neutral pronouns at the time in the Japanese version, which is why they translated it as a "he", as they didn't really have much of an idea about where to take Justice except for she knew Sol at the time.

Because there's no "he/she" in japanese, and translators can't see the future?

was a dude before, is agender now

Your ability to comprehend the passage of time is that of an infant's.

@@gspandem1204 The passage of time can see however many retcons they wanna throw in there, it won't change how things were in 1998.

@@BestWayKilla Events can be superseded with new information. A retcon would be like saying "Well this is actually canon, and has always been canon." Testament identifying as agender as of Strive isn't contradicting previous information (said info being based off of the Japanese version, since that's the most accurate to what Daisuke had in mind for the story.)

@@gspandem1204 As I tell people who bring this up, Testament was Kliff's son for 2 decades, and they never felt the need to correct the record on that or stress what gender he "identified" as. What changed? Fast forward to the 2020s, and suddenly that matters to a whole bunch of people for some reason, and the devs saw them as a group they could pander to. Strive can make the cast into whatever they want for all the P.R. it'll get them, its faults as a game on general combined with these redesigns have ensured I've long since left it behind. I prefer to remember GG as it was, when it was still metal.