- Author's Saving Throw: The lobby system is considered to be the Scrappy Mechanic of -STRIVE-. That said, not only did you get an option to bypass it in the open beta (it puts your avatar out there while you play training mode), they delayed the game for a couple months
to fix up the lobby system, and the stability of the already incredible netcode. - Blooper:
- During the opening cutscene as Giovanna evades the Paparazzi following the presidential car, a quick shot of her stepping on the gas shows her foot not only not contacting with the pedal asset of the car model, but slightly clipping through it.
- A later shot in the same scene has a child bystander running by while playing freezing in place for a few frames before cutting away.
- Breakthrough Hit: Thanks to a combination between, among other things, Dragon Ball Fighter Z bringing new fans to the company, great marketing, and some other fighters being a bit on the disappointing side, Strive is the best selling Guilty Gear to date, selling six times more in its first few months than Xrd did in its lifetime. It eventually became the first Arc System Works-original game to sell a million copies.
- Content Leak:
- I-No got leaked mere hours before her reveal trailer was released online.
- Elphelt's presence as a DLC character was leaked several days prior to her official reveal. The ArcSys website went ahead and posted her bio before her trailer debuted at the 2023 Game Awards.
- Dummied Out: Jam Kuradoberi has a brand new model that can be found in the game's data, along with being listed alongside DLC characters like Goldlewis Dickinson, Happy Chaos, and Jack-O', implying either Jam could be a DLC character in the future or she was cut from the game.
- God Never Said That: Following a transphobic backlash to Bridget's Coming-Out Story, a fake email claiming to be Arc System Works's Japanese customer support began circulating through Twitter, claiming that Bridget is still canonically a man. This forced Arc System Works to post a warning about the fake email. This would eventually prompt both Daisuke Ishiwatari and director Akira Katano to reaffirm in a developer blog that Bridget is indeed transfeminine, Bridget's pronouns are she/her, and that she's come to terms with her femininity and accepted herself. Ishiwatari and Katano also confirmed that all of Bridget's possible story-mode endings are canon and do not contradict each other, effectively saying that Bridget is trans regardless of which ending the player gets. Daisuke would later add that Bridget's coming-out had already been planned since as far back as her very debut in XX.
- Newbie Boom: -STRIVE- proved to be a huge one for the series in general, no doubt in part due to Arc System Works' newfound spotlight after the success of FighterZ, and aided further by a change in direction to make the game more welcoming to new players while still keeping with the spirit of Guilty Gear. When it was released on Steam, it quickly jumped to the 3rd highest peak player count of any fighting game on the platform, only beaten out by Mortal Kombat 11 and the aforementioned FighterZ.
- The Other Darrin:
- Japanese Dub:
- Anji is voiced by Nobutoshi Canna instead of Tohru Igarashi.
- Testament is voiced by Yuu Kobayashi instead of Akira Kobayashi.
- Bridget is voiced by Manaka Iwami instead of Yukiko Kato.
- A.B.A is voiced by Riho Sugiyama instead of Mika Takimoto.
- English Dub:
- Ky is voiced by Sean Chiplock instead of Sam Riegel.
- Axl is voiced by Alexander Gross instead of Liam O'Brien.
- Potemkin is voiced by Armen Taylor instead of Kirk Thornton.
- Ramlethal is voiced by Laura Stahl instead of Erin Fitzgerald.
- I-No is voiced by Amber Lee Connors instead of Tara Platt.
- Colin Vernon is voiced by Anthony Alabi instead of Kirk Thornton.
- Aria is voiced by Nicole Tompkins instead of Ashly Burch.
- Japanese Dub:
- Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Bridget's confirmation of her gender has been the subject of much misinformation since her appearance in Strive.
- While her gender preference is only explicitly said in her second-hardest ending, she never contradicts her stance nor refers to herself with male pronouns in any version after she makes her decision. There were also suggestions that the ending with her coming out as a girl is a "bad, non-canon" ending, a suggestion which had never been levied on any character's arcade endings prior, where the multiple endings were all considered canon and formed a complete story together. Daisuke and producer Akira Katano even went so far as to confirm in a developer blog that the "all endings are canon" fact applies to Bridget in this game as well, meaning she's transfemme in canon.
- While there have been accusations of a Translation with an Agenda being involved, all translations and localizations are done in-house, and the translation of the line "I'm a girl" is completely faithful to the Japanese versionExplanation. The "I'm a boy..." line from stage 1 is often taken out of context to imply her gender preference as a statement of fact, despite her audible hesitance.
- On the subject of pronouns, many sources reporting that Bridget still uses ambiguous language in Japanese are blatantly incorrect. From her debut in XX, she almost invariably uses "uchi", a very feminine form of address that goes beyond even Camp Gay characters in Japanese media, and uses it exclusively in -STRIVE-. She has only ever used a masculine pronoun once — "boku", typically referring to young boys (and even then that is far from its only use, women even use it to refer to themselves in the presence of other women quite frequently, for example) — and that was in a family context.
- While her gender preference is only explicitly said in her second-hardest ending, she never contradicts her stance nor refers to herself with male pronouns in any version after she makes her decision. There were also suggestions that the ending with her coming out as a girl is a "bad, non-canon" ending, a suggestion which had never been levied on any character's arcade endings prior, where the multiple endings were all considered canon and formed a complete story together. Daisuke and producer Akira Katano even went so far as to confirm in a developer blog
- Promoted Fanboy:
- Alexander Gross, better known as Octopimp, has been a longtime fan of the series and plays Potemkin at a competitive level. As of Strive he is now the English voice of Axl, and burst into Tears of Joy upon seeing his name in the credits.
- Amber Lee Connors has been a fan of the series since XX. Fittingly, she is now the English voice of I-No, who debuted in and played a major role in the story of that game and its updated versions.
- Alexander Gross, better known as Octopimp, has been a longtime fan of the series and plays Potemkin at a competitive level. As of Strive he is now the English voice of Axl, and burst into Tears of Joy upon seeing his name in the credits
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: The agender Testament is portrayed in English by the transfeminine voice actress Kayleigh McKee.
- Role Reprise: Many of the English voice actors from the dub of Xrd -SIGN- returned for this game.
- David Forseth reprises Sol.
- Eden Riegel reprises May.
- Edward Bosco reprises Chipp.
- Kaiji Tang reprises Faust.
- Tara Platt reprises Millia.
- Matthew Mercer reprises Zato-1.
- Jamieson Price reprises Leo.
- Lucien Dodge reprises Sin.
- Derek Stephen Prince reprises Asuka/That Man.
- Though Liam O'Brien did not reprise Axl, he does reprise Johnny despite him only being a story mode NPC in -SIGN-.
- Cassandra Lee Morris reprises Elphelt.
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