YMMV / Guilty Gear XX

• Common Knowledge: It's often asserted by older Guilty Gear players (especially those disgruntled by the Rocket-Tag Gameplay of -STRIVE-) that modern Guilty Gear games allow players to do incredibly high damage with little to no effort while in XX they actually have to work for high damage by doing impressive combos. This viewpoint is purely Nostalgia Filter, as playing any version of XX for even a short amount of time will show the player that they are able to do relatively high damage off of a single well-placed Counter Hit, Force Break or two-hit combo just as easily as in Xrd or -STRIVE-. Not to mention that readily-available and easy to use Instant Kills mean that it is literally possible to win an entire round and deal an entire health bar of damage to your opponent by landing a single attack, which -STRIVE- doesn't even have.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • If you're unfamiliar with the series, you'd be forgiven for thinking Bridget was a significant character to Guilty Gear's lore just based on how many times she's mentioned on this page. In actuality, not only is she a minor character at best, she is canonically considered by the character biographies to be the weakest and most insignificant member of the entire cast. And yet ever since her debut, she's maintained her status as one of the most popular characters in the entire series, even ranking number one on several anniversary polls.
  • Robo-Ky, despite being an Evil Knockoff Collective Identity for all of the robot simulacra of Ky that the PWAB built (and which are considered nothing more than Mooks by the games' stories), is beloved by the fandom for having a genuinely unique and expressive personality even though he's just a robot imitation. This sentiment only got stronger after the Robo-Ky in Guilty Gear Xrd performed a Heroic Sacrifice to defeat Bedman, and even though that was supposed to be the very last Robo-Ky a great deal of fans still want to see him return as DLC for Guilty Gear -STRIVE- some which way.
• Good Bad Bugs: Jumping immediately after FRCing Ky's Charged Stun Edge will cause it to follow you into the air and start moving from there.
• Harsher in Hindsight: All of the Unsettling Gender-Reveal jokes about Bridget from the XX era, both in-universe and in the fandom, were squashed when she came out as a trans woman in -STRIVE-.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Male fans of Bridget, once collectively referred to as "gay for Bridget", can now be considered "straight for Bridget" as a result of her Character Development having her transition to being a woman, and female fans now being the ones to be gay for her.
• Memetic Mutation: "Everyone's gay for Bridget."^ExplanationA Stupid Sexy Flanders-tinged catchphrase among fans in reference to Bridget's initial Wholesome Crossdresser depiction. After Bridget came out as a trans girl during her storyline in Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, the meme saw a resurgence in popularity, this time either joking about people being "straight for Bridget" or repurposing the original catchphrase for female fans of the game (especially those that came out as trans women themselves during the interim).
• Newer Than They Think:
  • A designated button for Dust attacks first became a thing in this game. Previously, Dust attacks (as well as Sweeps, which first appeared in X) were performed by pressing both Slash and Heavy Slash at the same time.
  • A lot of moves that are considered staples of their character's kits, such as Testament's traps and Potemkin's flick, didn't make their debut until this game.
• Rainbow Lens: Although Bridget was originally portrayed as a cis man in XX, fans noted that Bridget's character could be read as a metaphor for a trans man: Bridget was raised as a girl since birth, has a feminine name and appearance, and is misgendered as a girl by others, but goes on a quest to prove to the world that she's really a man at heart. This was made ironic by the release of -STRIVE-, which actually did make Bridget canonically transgender... but as a trans woman instead.
• Retroactive Recognition: The singer for the N.Y/L.A vocal albums? None other than the English voice actor for Guy of Final Fight fame as he appears in Street Fighter IV and V. For a musical example, there's RULES OF NATURE.
• So Bad, It's Good: The N.Y/L.A vocal albums. The singing isn't inherently terrible, but the lyrics for most of the cast's theme songs are either incredibly unfitting, so full of Obligatory Swearing that they're impossible to take seriously, or a combination of the two.
• That One Attack: Plenty of 'em. Enough for its own page, even!
• That One Boss: Any Story Mode character who has Regeneration. It's really fast regeneration too, so your only options are to play the most sweaty, aggressive Guilty Gear of your life to stop them from out-regenerating your attacks or try to land an Instant Kill, which is oftentimes harder than doing the former.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: One of Robo-Ky's Accent Core endings features the last K-series PWAB robot getting decommissioned and Crow starting a new P-series line of robots, this time based off of Potemkin's battle data rather than Ky's. Given that later games show that all the Robo-Kys did canonically get decommissioned, it's rather disappointing that we never got to see these "Robo-temkin'' units in any form again.

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