The Entire Guilty Gear Story in 14 Minutes

People can spend hours recapping the lore of Guilty Gear...but I say, all you need is a few minutes.

Thanks to everyone who supported me while I worked on this project. It was a lot fun to work on, and I'm very proud of how it turned out.

Music List (in order of appearance):
Death and Republic - Guilty Gear OST
The Man - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Meet Again - Guilty Gear OST
Launch Out - Guilty Gear Accent Core +R OST
Keep Yourself Alive 3 - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Shotgun & Head - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Heavy Day - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Bump - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Diva of Despair - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
File Select - Super Mario 64 OST
Reunion - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Lily - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Smell of the Game - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Main Theme - Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST
Drift - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Trouble - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
First Impact - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Diva - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Mirror of the World - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Conscious - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Necessary Discrepancy - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Friend - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Icarus - Guilty Gear Xrd Sign OST
Dignity - Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST
Requiem - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
The Roar of the Spark - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Find Your One Way - Guilty Gear STRIVE OST
Beyond the Dark Life - Guilty Gear OST

[staiven]

Hey everyone! Thanks for the overwhelmingly positive response to the video! I had a lot of fun working on it and I'm glad to see that everyone is enjoying it!

If this comment seems familiar, yet different, it's because I made a previous pinned comment that ended up getting removed. This video seems to have exploded in popularity, so in light of this, I've been spending some time doing a bit of channel management. I won't get into too many details, but the result of it meant that all of the comments and responses I left here got deleted. I apologize to the kind folks who engaged in a discussion with me, the conversations we had are unfortunately incomplete now. I really wish there was a way I could fix that.

In any case, I felt it's probably a good idea to leave some corrections in this pinned comment since a few folks have pointed out some mistakes that I made.

UPDATE: ...Yes, I am aware that I mispronounced Tír na nÓg...you don't have to keep telling me...

1:13 That Man blew up Japan BEFORE the Crusades began. That Man was running an experiment to test the functionality of Justice, which went very wrong, and the Universal Will attempted to manifest itself within Justice. Worried that this event may cause Earth to no longer be a human world, That Man then overrides Justice's controls and blows up Japan to stop the manifestation from occurring.

2:58 Ky becoming the king of Illyria and falling in love with Dizzy *technically* happens directly AFTER the events Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R. I wrote the video like this because I felt like it would flow better, otherwise I would have basically said that I was skipping over two games in the franchise in a row, which just felt awkward to me. In hindsight, I probably could have written this section to be a little less misleading, my bad.

9:39 This asterisk is very funny, but it's not entirely accurate. Happy Chaos wasn't really "controlling" the Universal Will, he was just absorbed inside of her, so he didn't actually kill Bedman. Delilah wants to kill Happy Chaos because she thinks it would be a roundabout way of avenging her brother since Happy Chaos created the Universal Will. I still think my explanation is more fun though lol.

13:01 Okay so this one is probably the biggest mistake I made, although this whole Scales of Juno thing is so confusing that I don't even blame myself THAT much for it. Ky Kiske DOES NOT have the Scales of Juno within him. Jack-O is the one with the Scales of Juno. No, what Ky has within him is the *BLOOD* of Juno, BIG difference. The blood of Juno essentially refers to the pure Gear cells of Justice, and these pure Gear cells are inside of Ky's eyeball and are what allow Ky to perform Dragon Install. So I believe that the explanation I provided here is pretty much correct, just replace "Scales of Juno" with "blood of Juno" and it'll make sense. Honestly, I feel like instead of calling it the "blood of Juno", they should have actually called it the "blood of JUSTICE" since I feel that better describes what's going on here, ESPECIALLY since I've seen a lot of other people also get this detail wrong, but it's Daisuke's vision so whatever I guess.

I'll update this post with more corrections if I feel they're important enough to mention. I obviously skipped over a lot of details and characters, so I encourage anyone who's actually interested in Guilty Gear lore to take the time and fully look into it. There's plenty of comprehensive videos out there that explain everything that I didn't, and there's the GG World mode in Guilty Gear Strive that's essentially an in-game encyclopedia for the whole series.

Again, thanks for all the support you all have shown the video! It's not perfect, but I hope all of you will stick with me as I continue to work on more videos. Peace!

[cobaltobject]

My favorite part is when Asuka was dramatically revealed to be a catboy then immediately stopped being one in the next game, which takes place like a month later.

[noonedream]

This is shockingly accurate but one correction: Ramlethal didn’t just turn good because she ate a burger. She turned good because she ate a burger and a comatose man killed her dog

[Kloutrous]

The best part is how he transitions to the next game and reveals they take place after like a 5 minute commercial break

[purplemaui]

I love the part when Sol just goes "This gear is becoming guilty" and proceed to guilt all over the place.

[drvonstreusel]

"the fourth game in the series: guilty gear 2"

[lovebus]

Imagine making a pachinko machine holding crucial story elements, just to troll your fan base

[RiskOfBaer]

I like how after watching a 14 minute video trying it's best to explain GG story I I walked away with more questions than answers.

[neptuneplayz]

I love how asuka takes away the flame of corruption from sol to undo his mistake, even though sol having the flame of corruption doesn't hurt him AND AT THE WORST TIME POSSIBLE

[Maxler]

I love how horrifying the lore is and it has names like "the backyard" "that guy" "the junkyard dog" the protag is literally called "badguy" and "THE CUBE"

[rainer]

7:51 this part is great. "In order to counter Sol Badguy, Happy Chaos had a trump card: an ancient samurai Vampire named Nagoriyuki hidden under a residential apartment building" is one of the most exemplary Guilty Gear plot points EVER

[Quilt]

During years of playing Guilty Gear I never wanted to know what the story was, because I knew in my heart it would be painful. This, truly, was painful, and hilarious. Thank-you for summarizing it.

[someguy]

" *You don't deserve to exist in this world, Sol. You're nothing but a Guilty Gear* ."

-Asuka R. Kreuz

[gabrielbean]

Forgot to mention that when asked why he had a super-nuclear weapon in hand even when he had the flame of corruption, sol's answer was "I was bored and needed a hobby"

[saintaziz]

crazy how even when he skipped major worldbuilding elements and pretty much %90 of the cast and the story is still complicated as hell and crazier how you managed to make it very simple in just 15 minutes

[meisunebernadetta]

9:13
*local crazy gun man is magic god himself*

[danieliteza]

2:50 "guilty gear zeks"
"What!?"

[Micha-Hil]

7:19
"Happy Chaos just thinks this would be REALLY funny, so he agrees to work with her."
Best character

[danieloviedo]

Daisuke’s vision is absolute unintentional comedy and a masterpiece at the same time

[Soul-uxib]

You forgot to mention the fact that Happy Chaos literally just appears in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and has an 'I must go, my people need me' moment at the end of all this