Axl, named after a certain singer, is a time traveler from the 1990's. Considering Guilty Gear takes place some 200 years in the future (with Y2K being the moment where the setting really diverges), it's really funny to see this goofy dork in his flannels.

4:35 Fun fact, this part of the song pays homage to his first game theme "March of the Wicked King"

axl is one of my favorite fictional characters, just a normal guy who suddenly got thrown in to the future because hes existence got mixed up with the birth of a god… yet he never stops being the silly guy he is. his fit also goes hard in strive

I look forward to seeing you eventually react to Ramlethal Valentines theme, 'Necessary Discrepancy' Its a prog-rock-ishtype song which the composer has said is probably his favourite theme and the one he feels represents Strive the best, so much so that the title for the full OST Discs also have Necessary Discrepancy in the title.

Glad to hear you liked it. A lot of people don't like this one but I'm a big fan of how it manages to be both chill and chaotic at the same time. It really fits the guy who can control time but still wants to go with the flow.

Smell of the Game ✔ Find Your One Way ✔ The Roar of the Spark ✔ The Disaster of Passion ✔ Out of the Box ✔ Play the Hero ✔ Armor-clad Faith ✔ Alone Infection ❌ Love the Subhuman Self ❌ Let Me Carve Your Way ❌ Necessary Discrepancy ❌ Hellfire ✔ What do you fight for ❌ Trigger ❌ Rock Parade ✔ Requiem ❌ Crawl ❌ The Kiss of Death ✔ Perfection Can't Please Me ❌ Drift ❌ Mirror of the World ✔ Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course ✔ The Town Inside Me ❌ The Hourglass ❌ The Circle ✔ The Gravity ✔ Just Lean ❌ Extras ✔ Symphony ✔ Ups and Downs ✔ The Name of Heaven ❌ Talk About You ❌ Rock and Roll, Rock Hard Maniac ❌

this is a top tier theme imo

I'm glad you like this one! I sadly see this one get a lotta hate (I think folks are just thrown off by it not being as hard rock as the usual themes??) The theme also fits the character pretty well- the main gimmick of Axl is basically that he's actually a regular British guy from "our" world who was transplanted into Guilty Gear More specifically, while GG taked place around the 2180s, Axl was a guy from 1998, when the world still used to be like ours, before the magical fighting game apocalypse One day he randomly slipped through time and ended up nearly 200 years in the future, and since then has had to come to terms with the new weird reality he finds himself in, as well as accept his new existence as a living temporal paradox

With absolutely no fail i'll be singing along to "Out of the Box!"

LES GOO 🔥🔥

I find it amusing that I enjoy the vocals on the other tracks fine, except maybe some odd phrasing with some of the lyrics and such (probably due to English not being their first language)… Even then it can sometimes be fun… But then on this song, where I find the vocal lines kinda boring, although reasonably serviceable, you start to enjoy them lol. I don’t know… This one’s still perfectly decent and that dual guitar run was sweet, but I guess I just find this song bland compared to the others in general… But then I’m probably fairly weird lol… I think it’s the only song particularly like this on the soundtrack though, so in a weird way there’s still variety to it in terms of the whole selection of songs… Not really a big deal, but yeah… I found it interesting ^_^;; Not that I’m overly surprised as it’s a reasonable difference of opinion, I think… But in terms of coincidence, you know?