Guilty Gear Strive's story style has been shown off in new trailers, simply after our interview with the Guilty Gear team at Arc Arrangement Works, we can confirm that the story mode lasts roughly iv to five hours in length, and contains no battles.

This is fairly traditional for Guilty Gear games, and Guilty Gear Xrd infamously featured a like story mode, which was hours of dialogue and intricately posed 3D models, but no bodily "gameplay" as far traditional fighting games are concerned. Information technology's an interesting strategy, and one that Arc System Works appears to be fond of.

While talking to the developers at Arc System Works we asked what we could look from the story manner of Guilty Gear Strive, and producer Takeshi Yamanaka answered me.

[Takeshi Yamanaka] "The main character Sol'south story reaches a conclusion. We hope anybody looks forward to the Story Mode, as it has evolved since the previous game, Rev2. There aren't any battles you need to fight during the Story Mode, so you can relax and watch. It should take from four to five hours."

Different most fighting games that use cutscenes as justification for the battles, Arc System Works uses the story mode to set up and build the globe of Guilty Gear that surrounds the characters. Information technology's a good way to avert contrived writing explaining why everyone is fighting one another, but it'south too hardly the near engaging manner to experience a story.

Elsewhere in our interview, development manager Katano Akira tells united states of america the easiest way to grab upward with the Guilty Gear storyline and lore:

[Katano Akira] "As for the story, we hope players volition read the digest comics summarizing the story up until now, which tin can be constitute on the official site. Y'all tin besides sentry the Xrd serial' Story Modes on YouTube, so delight check those out!"

You can view the Guilty Gear Xrd cutscenes on YouTube, and the Guilty Gear comic series can be found on the official site here. Make sure to read our full interview with the Arc Arrangement Works development team for more information on the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive, releasing June 11 on PS4, PS5, and Steam.

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