Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Event

[redsilversnake]

Dengeki reported on an anniversary event ASW held on the series' history, and there are some interesting bits of trivia here.

 

-The password to unlock Testament and Dizzy in the arcade version of X was "misosoup," apparently because a programmer working on the game was overheard saying, "Now I want to drink some miso soup…"

-The development team was casual with how their naming at the time, to the extent that one of the ideas of what to call what became roman cancels was "cosmetic galaxy."

-There was a question about Fanny from GG Petit, but Ishiwatari says he can't answer anything about her because he wasn't involved in her creation.

-Advance had a unique move for Venom that Ishiwatari meant to hide, but it somehow made it into the game.

-Not everyone who worked on XX knew that Bridget was a boy, which led to a shocked exclamation from a designer.

-When the topic of the series' bosses being women came up, it was mentioned that Leopoldon's gender is unknown, but Ishiwatari says that he thinks the dog piloting it may have been female, thus keeping this tradition unbroken.

-Leopoldon's designer did the effects for Jam's new super in Xrd.

-Overture's total development time was five years, so Ishiwatari says he has a lot of memories about it.

-The name of Overture's genre, melee action, has a double meaning; the "melee" part is homonymous with the Japanese word 命令/meirei, which refers to orders, like the ones you give to servants in the game.

-Ishiwatari was fixated on how roman cancels could be changed in Xrd, and Pachi recalls racking his mind over the suggestion that they be possible at any time, even during a downed state.

-One idea that was tested during Xrd's development was being able to roman cancel KOs, but this caused a bug among certain characters where they'd just fall right after getting up following the RC.

-Bridget was #1 on the Revelator poll to decide the next playable character until the very last day, when Dizzy got a sudden boost.

-The staff had specific ideas for other characters in the poll, such as Izuna dashing rather than having a regular walk (like in Cross Tag Battle).

-One of Haehyun's attendants actually debuted in the Korean version of #Reload, having been added to one of the stages.

 

Ishiwatari also says that Xrd is probably finished as of Rev 2, and maybe hints that work has already started on the next real sequel.

[Danaiden]

Thank you very much for the translation!

Interesting that they added one of Haehyun's attendants already in #Reload. I wonder when they started to develope her and Jonryoku.
Hehe, how funny that even members of the development team didn't know that Bridget is male.

Kinda surprising that the next GG probably won't be part of the Xrd series. It will likely still be a FG (IIRC many disliked the genre switch in Overture) but with major system mechanic changes.

[heavymetalmixer]

Thanks for the translation, I hope the next GG ins't super heavy on PC resources.

[Blade]

There seems to be some miscommunication floating around, GGXrd Revelator is done (Rev2 was an add-on, despite being self-contained), but the 3rd Xrd game is still being developed.