i love how you can tell testimate chilled out over the time hes been gone just by looking at his old animations; going from low key monsterous to chill and stylish
Testament was my main in AC+R, and their glow-up in Strive really depicts the evolution in my own tastes : I love feminine-looking and ambiguous characters.
Feels like they nerfed Testament but it’s understandable - the new glamorous Testa just too scared to loose their hat so they don’t fight as brutal as they used to be
true one of my uncles who was a huge metalhead back in the day looked exactly like 98 testament, just replace the outfit with jeans and a acdc shirt and thats him I on the otherhand look like a brown Testament if they gained 150lbs
@@JKorderothe whole point is that they’re supposed to be androgynous and that the reworked testament represents how they let go of their grudge for humanity and became healthier 💀
It's cool they're back. I prefer the old version though, it made them look more recognizable as "that creepy scythe character", like Yami Iori from KOF.
Not super familiar with the lore but I think this design is a little more fitting from what I do know. Both are really cool, they give off entirely different vibes.
I think their new design really does their androgynous look better (daisuke himself wanted Testament to be like that). Switching between the english and japanese dub, I could either see them as either a metal head dude or a goth girl.
@@strotch7753 Why would I be happy about him showing less skin? lol I don't know why you brought that up. As to missing link, that's barely legible pixel art. I just don't want my androgynous husbando to become a full on waifu. He should at least still look a bit menacing and have some muscle. He's 100% fem now.
Well… Now the character looks like a girl. The nicest thing about the andrigynous looking is having doubt, not being able to guess the gender. Now it looks kinda obvious.
At least the eng voice do something for the character. ( At least...). Thanks for this evolution videos, is cool to see directly the comparition from old games. I enjoy it.
@@AzpecTProductionz Actually they are kind of right, Testament was always ambiguously gendered in Japan, they were only referred to explicitly as male in the English translation.
I never seen this guy in my life, but till this year, and when I saw him, I gotta be honest I officially love this guy and he is now my favorite character of guilty gear I love this guy.
While some people may prefer the older design, I feel like the "scythe edgelord" trope is too overdone... Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but the new design has a carefree energy that subverts the trope and makes them stand out. This style of anime fighting game allows characters to be very expressive, it's nice when there's something for everybody in the character selection screen (fun, badass, stylish, absurd, sexy, mysterious...) Design matters more than competitive viability for most people anyway, so why not go all out on making them unique?
Everything in GG Strive looks so fucking polished and well animated, it shows how expressive 2d fighting games can be, I'll take this over bland/muted/badly animated realism any day
Everything else aside, the cool badass femme fatale is just as overdone. Im not weighing in on which is better, but they did just exchange one overused trope character for another overused trope character....
@@abrahamlupis9354 "Agender is the best word. Neither male nor female. Testament is Testament," said Ozawa, later adding, "In English, you would say they and them."
im a fan of the older design, i like they had the whole masc but fem goth baddie vibes…. but the new design literally stripes them of that…. masc they/them erasure damn
Canonically Testament is "they/them" now. Easy mistake to make, it was only mentioned in a few articles when Testament was announced and people saw the androgynous design.
I wonder why they decided to go the whole graceful route with them. Maybe it juxtaposes nicely with all of the hell things and blood. Maybe they felt the old aesthetic was too on-the-nose. Eh idk
ohhh shit i forgot that testiments voice in the first game was distorted I was wondering why their new voice was distorted when the second version wasnt i for got about the first
Hmm i was actually scared of testament from the original gg, due to the voice actually, but he was already beautiful back then... He glowed more after the war😂😂😂
I have so much gender envy for Testament. Didn’t know anything about Guilty Gear until someone showed me a picture of Testament after the new design came out. Now I’m pretty sure I’m going to be consuming all the GG content I can find
"Gender swap" thing aside, I think the character was more interesting in the past; had more charisma and their attack animations/sounds felt less cartoonish and more serious
The new design is kinda cool but it feels soo much off comparing to the old one 💔 they buffed his thighs soo much he looks more like a goth girl 😂💔 imagine if he is still as tall,slim and kinda muscular as before 😭😭😭 People Would have screamed HOLY SHIT TESTAMENT IS BACK but most testament reactions are like WOW WHO IS SHE… WAIT TESTAMENT ?! lol
Agreed. I'm down with androgynous Testament, but they turned Testament into just a flat chested girl. Way too feminine. Also the personality has changed way too much. As much as I want to see him happy, this is too jarring... he's unrecognizable aside from the scythe.
I'm just a casual guilty gear player, I admit I didn't follow the game as much but Testament always been my favorite character. When I saw the new guilty gear, the clueless me really thought that's Testament's sister or something lol His voice obviously female. At least english dub making more sense. But I'm not complaining about them thighs tho😚
They can still be considered goth tbh And don’t even come for me because I’m pretty sure most if not all of the people arguing that they aren’t goth aren’t even goth.
I’m not gonna lie, while I like the New Testament, I’m gonna have to say the Old Testament is the only old design i prefer. They look more distinctly NB in the old design whereas in the current design you could call them a woman with the same design and it would work just as well
I understand this sentiment. I really love the new outfit, it’s super classy and fits them very well, and I think them being curvier works well for the evolution of their character, going from rail thin to more full figured showcases their newfound self love, they literally look like they’re eating better, but I wish they were more muscular, and maybe had a sharper jaw. It wouldn’t make them any less attractive that’s for sure. Their English VA definitely adds to their androgyny, but people playing with the Japanese VA lose that entirely. I will say that nonbinary people don’t have to look a certain way to be nonbinary, you can look super masculine and be nonbinary, and conversely you can look super feminine and be nonbinary, and nonbinary people do not owe anyone androgyny; however, I think a more androgynous design would serve Testament’s character really well, they’re in many ways meant to embody a balance between absolutes (ie life and death).
@@vincentgeiszler3749 I see that completely, and the way their new design reflects their character is something i haven’t really thought of before. That point about the VAs is something i wholeheartedly agree with too and is one of many reasons i run the english dub. That said while I agree with the sentiment that real nb people don’t have to look androgynous to be valid and nb, I think this is an expectation we should put on fictional nb characters. I say this as an NB person myself who fully embraces my amab masculinity too. Until the existence of non binary characters in media is normalised enough that there are nb characters somewhat frequently, i think proving the point to people who would otherwise not believe nb people exist (the point being that people can be of indeterminable gender) is of a greater importance. thanks for the comment by the way
Sorry that I'm replying like, a year later, I just wanted to say that that's why I *live* for Testament's english dub. The way their voice and looks complement and contradict each other at the same time goes so hard, I *cannot* bro oh my god they're so cool 🛐 Goals fr
not a fan of the re-design, they made him look too much like some little whimp, i have nothing against androgynous designs, older Testament design was a bit like that but he still looked manly, while this new design can pass for a little girl, when first saw the thumbnail of the reveal and didnt see exactly who's the new character, i was thinking, oh cool it's a new female character....wait....that's Testament?? what....
I really like the gender ambiguous nature of testament, which is why I don't like the new design. Their current design, with slender limbs, and thin waist to wider hips ratio is just undeniably feminine. They look great, but they look female. I wish they kept the old broad shoulders. Without the masculine elements in the design, they lose a lot of what was so striking about the original conceit of the character.
You can say this is the... New Testament
😭
... *slow clap* *nod*
.... Slow clap and proud nod
That was horrible joke that turned to be good
everyone stop what you're doing LOL!
Eyyyyyy! Nice one!
testament really did just say "Okay that's enough edge its time to be FAB"
I love their style
i love how you can tell testimate chilled out over the time hes been gone just by looking at his old animations; going from low key monsterous to chill and stylish
Wow. I didn’t know that Testament looks more menacing back in the old days.
Pretty much everyone looked cooler and more emo in the old days. GG story then was in a dark war time. I miss the old neoclassical music too.
They’re making love now not war 😂
Oh yes testament was very menacing I remember when I had to face him in GGX and keep the faith suddenly start to play in the background.
Testament was a demon in the first game. Pure evil.
@@rawkitlawnchair They were under the control of justice in the first game
Testament was my main in AC+R, and their glow-up in Strive really depicts the evolution in my own tastes : I love feminine-looking and ambiguous characters.
it doesn't look ambiguous is just a girl now, with a girl's voice and curvy
@@Eruasemo Yeah they looked ambiguous before, now they just look like a girl.
@@Eruasemo well; that's the japanese VA. in the English; it's very much male. Making Testament somewhat of a "duel personality"
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 japanese voce in the old one is masculine too
@@Eruasemo lol explain that to the non-binary bimbos out there. New world order contaminated peoples minds
The thumbnail makes me think "Ah yes, they hold the scythe at a higher angle every iteration"
Feels like they nerfed Testament but it’s understandable - the new glamorous Testa just too scared to loose their hat so they don’t fight as brutal as they used to be
They went from “THIS IS NOT A PHASE MOM” to “It was never a phase, mother”
@@SoutaCherryThey did have an edgy phase though, but they stayed goth all throughout it.
@@Gadgetmcflyv2 true true
Metalheads in 1998
Metalheads in 2022
I mean ,am I complaining though ?
true
one of my uncles who was a huge metalhead back in the day looked exactly like 98 testament, just replace the outfit with jeans and a acdc shirt and thats him
I on the otherhand look like a brown Testament if they gained 150lbs
0:10 This is my childhood. So nostalogic :3
My favorite version. Manly and cool... not this girly foxy version
Same
I still have it on my laptop lol
@@JKorderothe whole point is that they’re supposed to be androgynous and that the reworked testament represents how they let go of their grudge for humanity and became healthier 💀
i remember Testament looked and sounded like this. Which is cooler!
I MISS THEIR OLD DESIGN SO MUCH, XX/X2 WAS PEAK TESTAMENT IMO
It's cool they're back. I prefer the old version though, it made them look more recognizable as "that creepy scythe character", like Yami Iori from KOF.
Ikr. Kinda lose the ominous creep dark character
Not super familiar with the lore but I think this design is a little more fitting from what I do know. Both are really cool, they give off entirely different vibes.
@Zetsubo it's they dawg
@Zetsubo wow ur so edgi bro
@@aly3a869 who gives a fuck
Testament literally out here showing way too much leg for anyone's health or well being.
Unless you believe thicc thighs save lives.
Yeah it’s how Testa thinks is normal clothing looks like and this is how they raised Dizzy 😅
not men's thighs, no
I mean, knowing that thicc thighs saves lives is good for anyone's health or well being.
Absolute drumsticks
@@ainzooalgown9952 L
1998 testament is pretty feminine
2022 testament went fucking hard on it
😅😂
I think their new design really does their androgynous look better (daisuke himself wanted Testament to be like that). Switching between the english and japanese dub, I could either see them as either a metal head dude or a goth girl.
But androgeny means a mix of masculine and feminine, which he was before. Now he's 100% feminine.
Just coomer bait.
@@ANPC-pi9vu true
@@ANPC-pi9vu testament is actually showing *less* skin than they use to and is no more feminine than how they looked in missing link.
@@strotch7753 Why would I be happy about him showing less skin? lol I don't know why you brought that up. As to missing link, that's barely legible pixel art.
I just don't want my androgynous husbando to become a full on waifu. He should at least still look a bit menacing and have some muscle. He's 100% fem now.
Well… Now the character looks like a girl. The nicest thing about the andrigynous looking is having doubt, not being able to guess the gender. Now it looks kinda obvious.
I used to annoy my friends with Testament. I love their new voice actor too!
0:10
"konnichiwa-"
[VIOLENT PUKING SOUNDS]
I prefer the old design of testament.
The old design is so hot tho. Shame they didn't keep the design elements in Strive
I gotta catch on their story yet adore the fighting style combos and the designs
At least the eng voice do something for the character. ( At least...).
Thanks for this evolution videos, is cool to see directly the comparition from old games.
I enjoy it.
Idk man imo the new designs Scythe animation goes hard, the creature turning into a weapon idea never gets old
the yassification of Testament
Awwww I had such a huge crush on him in my teens... Now I'm questioning my sexuality. Thanks guys. 😒
I mean it's them now so I think everyone can be into them.
Testament has been referred to as a they/them since the beginning
@@月天使9033 FALSE
Dont feel the need to define your sexuality. If you have a crush on them, then just vibe with it.
@@AzpecTProductionz Actually they are kind of right, Testament was always ambiguously gendered in Japan, they were only referred to explicitly as male in the English translation.
I never seen this guy in my life, but till this year, and when I saw him, I gotta be honest I officially love this guy and he is now my favorite character of guilty gear I love this guy.
He might not be a guy anymore
@@AirKangLocker yeah.
the character is actually non binary and has no gender, still pretty cool character and design tho (also great representation)
@@evanellis9178 yeah bullshit he was a guy in every iteration until this now they just literally made him look like a girl just because
@@evanellis9178 you fell for the bait.
I played Testament so much in my teenage days, literally 24/7, I didn't care about the rest of the characters🤟💯🙏
Looking at 1998 they just gave them their vibes back
The scythe just rotates counter-clockwise from idle animation to idle animation
The scythe is held even further back every iteration
While some people may prefer the older design, I feel like the "scythe edgelord" trope is too overdone... Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but the new design has a carefree energy that subverts the trope and makes them stand out. This style of anime fighting game allows characters to be very expressive, it's nice when there's something for everybody in the character selection screen (fun, badass, stylish, absurd, sexy, mysterious...) Design matters more than competitive viability for most people anyway, so why not go all out on making them unique?
Everything in GG Strive looks so fucking polished and well animated, it shows how expressive 2d fighting games can be, I'll take this over bland/muted/badly animated realism any day
He was already unique old version is better tho
but all the characters are edgelords
Everything else aside, the cool badass femme fatale is just as overdone. Im not weighing in on which is better, but they did just exchange one overused trope character for another overused trope character....
@@icedragonair i for one think Cool Badass femme fatales are not overdone and in fact should be done more
he was "scythe dude" and now is "the one with thick thighs"
😂😂😂
Yea but they are still coll
lowkey wished that the 2000's body type was kept for their new design. i liked testament's masc frame.
The Original Testament is boss!
Literally one of the bosses in the beginning
The evolution and then involution in Strive
Who put soy pills in Testament's tea?
Sooooo freaking coollll the new version rocks!
I Love The Way You Lie
@@michaelmyers5102 No one asked you, Michael
I have only know about this game for like two days, but dang.
His new version is so elegant...i love it!
The Nonbinary Femme Androgynous Goth Icon we all needed and deserve
only that Testament isn't nonbinary, only asexual
@@abrahamlupis9354 "Agender is the best word. Neither male nor female. Testament is Testament," said Ozawa, later adding, "In English, you would say they and them."
@@Fyrebrand18 or Kliff's stepson
im a fan of the older design, i like they had the whole masc but fem goth baddie vibes…. but the new design literally stripes them of that…. masc they/them erasure damn
GOD forreal. new design is way too fem. I LIKE AMBIGUITY, THANKS!
every time anything chanhes it's erasure
Testament got that massive glow-up, proud of them.
Grew out of their edgy phase lol
Ghey
him*
@@ainzooalgown9952 You are incorrect
@@kirabad-artist6532 have you even played the games?
What did they do to my main?!
Made better
@@jess4you13 specifically made thiccer and prettier
made into more of a freak, Fits his character
@@jess4you13 relatable, youre guarenteed to like the new one if you are into anime girls thats for sure
Bimbofication
He's so freaking pretty
And for what?!
For us to be thirsty fuckers obviously
Love this new version, as well.
Glad to see Testament back, they look happy being themself.
no matter what version he's in
his crow still hits hard
Canonically Testament is "they/them" now. Easy mistake to make, it was only mentioned in a few articles when Testament was announced and people saw the androgynous design.
@@kqost maybe nonbinary people? Or people who are LBGT supporters? I mean it isn't hard to grasp or even do.
@@Jedda678 Who really knows?
S/he is death avatar, sex is options :))
@@kqost you. you care
1 of the best Guilty Gear character designs, how a scythe wielder should look like.
Good on Testament for their transition
from male to male? lol
I loved the 1998, first time i saw him, that demonic voice, skull face daaaaaamn
Testament before and after transition
I wonder why they decided to go the whole graceful route with them. Maybe it juxtaposes nicely with all of the hell things and blood. Maybe they felt the old aesthetic was too on-the-nose. Eh idk
Testament in GG xx : a menacing wide shouldered Man
Testament in Strive: switch teams
How do we make something so menacing looking, into the most friendly stranger danger bystander? How did you mess it up?
It's a special technique called Character Development.
@@runefaustblack I would say messing up with the character.
@@runefaustblack Development would imply that it was made better. This ruination.
"Look how they massacred my boy..."
Bro is so fabulous I can't even call him gay
great vid
ohhh shit i forgot that testiments voice in the first game was distorted I was wondering why their new voice was distorted when the second version wasnt i for got about the first
性別：テスタメント
"I used to carry myself like some sort of demon as well"
a testament to gaming tech
Hmm i was actually scared of testament from the original gg, due to the voice actually, but he was already beautiful back then... He glowed more after the war😂😂😂
This new design is boring. It’s just not androgynous anymore for a fact.
Sol gets it, everyone's thoughts on Strive testament.
Testaments fighting stance changes every game. They wont force themselves into any specific role.
I personally prefer the new english VA they have in GGST
testament, the type of guy who will say she is emo and truly is eno
I have so much gender envy for Testament. Didn’t know anything about Guilty Gear until someone showed me a picture of Testament after the new design came out.
Now I’m pretty sure I’m going to be consuming all the GG content I can find
I like old testament better but the new one is still cool :)
Involution of Testament
Thumbnail looks like an attack wind-up
Reminded me of Snorlax taking 5 gens to stand up
XD
Testament is my FAVORITE gear. Gwen Stefani (no doubt)
Majestic as fk
"Gender swap" thing aside, I think the character was more interesting in the past; had more charisma and their attack animations/sounds felt less cartoonish and more serious
Not really a gender swap when Ark System considers them to be agender/non-binary
I mean. They probably have a dong under there.
Besides. There's a lore reason why the new design exists.
@@mineflameblade8788 Honestly, the don't always make wise decisions for their new games.
definitely prefer their newer design, looks more classy to me - just my opinion though cus both rock. Yay for testament!!!!!
He had such an evil expression in the old games.
Guess he chilled out on the edge over the years and just wants to chill
@@Vintasticvin that is prettymuch their story
@@chakradarrat8832 Agreed. Testa too peaceful and easily annoyed these days LOL
The new design is kinda cool but it feels soo much off comparing to the old one 💔 they buffed his thighs soo much he looks more like a goth girl 😂💔 imagine if he is still as tall,slim and kinda muscular as before 😭😭😭 People Would have screamed HOLY SHIT TESTAMENT IS BACK but most testament reactions are like WOW WHO IS SHE… WAIT TESTAMENT ?! lol
in short: they went too far from the original testament it dosent feel like testament anymore… still a cool design for a charecter tho
Agreed. I'm down with androgynous Testament, but they turned Testament into just a flat chested girl. Way too feminine. Also the personality has changed way too much. As much as I want to see him happy, this is too jarring... he's unrecognizable aside from the scythe.
Yeah, he used to be so cool.
And I say "He" because the manual I own also calls him that. Can't change it. He's Kliffs son.
Me and My big bro played guilty gear 2000 arcade mode in the fisher mall philippines
He looked better in old version
Testament woke up one day and just said
"You know what im a girl now"
I'm just a casual guilty gear player, I admit I didn't follow the game as much but Testament always been my favorite character. When I saw the new guilty gear, the clueless me really thought that's Testament's sister or something lol His voice obviously female. At least english dub making more sense. But I'm not complaining about them thighs tho😚
the feminization of guilty gear...so fucking based...
Old >>>>> new
It has been quite a... Wait for it... Transition :D
Que le hicieron a mi muchacho? 😲
I liked the second design the most. Newest one is lacking it’s previous charisma. English dub does him more justice tho imo.
They can still be considered goth tbh
And don’t even come for me because I’m pretty sure most if not all of the people arguing that they aren’t goth aren’t even goth.
I’m not gonna lie, while I like the New Testament, I’m gonna have to say the Old Testament is the only old design i prefer. They look more distinctly NB in the old design whereas in the current design you could call them a woman with the same design and it would work just as well
I understand this sentiment. I really love the new outfit, it’s super classy and fits them very well, and I think them being curvier works well for the evolution of their character, going from rail thin to more full figured showcases their newfound self love, they literally look like they’re eating better, but I wish they were more muscular, and maybe had a sharper jaw. It wouldn’t make them any less attractive that’s for sure. Their English VA definitely adds to their androgyny, but people playing with the Japanese VA lose that entirely.
I will say that nonbinary people don’t have to look a certain way to be nonbinary, you can look super masculine and be nonbinary, and conversely you can look super feminine and be nonbinary, and nonbinary people do not owe anyone androgyny; however, I think a more androgynous design would serve Testament’s character really well, they’re in many ways meant to embody a balance between absolutes (ie life and death).
@@vincentgeiszler3749 I see that completely, and the way their new design reflects their character is something i haven’t really thought of before. That point about the VAs is something i wholeheartedly agree with too and is one of many reasons i run the english dub.
That said while I agree with the sentiment that real nb people don’t have to look androgynous to be valid and nb, I think this is an expectation we should put on fictional nb characters. I say this as an NB person myself who fully embraces my amab masculinity too. Until the existence of non binary characters in media is normalised enough that there are nb characters somewhat frequently, i think proving the point to people who would otherwise not believe nb people exist (the point being that people can be of indeterminable gender) is of a greater importance.
thanks for the comment by the way
@@Lylybeebee only that Testament is flamboyant and androgynous, nothing to do with nonbinarism
@@abrahamlupis9354 do you know what being non binary actually means?
I never liked legs on a man until I saw Asagi from D and Testament has a lot in common with him.
Damn so many old characters, i like his new design overall especially the scythe
the xx designs were the best..
Still far more interesting visually and gameplay back then.
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I miss times when he was an edgy man
When i was playing this as a 8 year old i always thought testament was a man
Gears: i am biologically gender fluid
Ok
I think they pushed Testament too hard into femme. The poses, the voice, and face design just look like a woman now.
Sorry that I'm replying like, a year later, I just wanted to say that that's why I *live* for Testament's english dub.
The way their voice and looks complement and contradict each other at the same time goes so hard, I *cannot* bro oh my god they're so cool 🛐
Goals fr
not a fan of the re-design, they made him look too much like some little whimp, i have nothing against androgynous designs, older Testament design was a bit like that but he still looked manly, while this new design can pass for a little girl, when first saw the thumbnail of the reveal and didnt see exactly who's the new character, i was thinking, oh cool it's a new female character....wait....that's Testament?? what....
They just got 💄👑🗡🪓💋💋💅🏻🥵💦💀
Same. Like damn... I HAVE waifus... but I don't like my husbando being arbitrarily turned into a shallow waifu fap bait type.
@@ANPC-pi9vu eww
I just love him so much!!! 😭😭😭
*them
I really like the gender ambiguous nature of testament, which is why I don't like the new design. Their current design, with slender limbs, and thin waist to wider hips ratio is just undeniably feminine. They look great, but they look female. I wish they kept the old broad shoulders. Without the masculine elements in the design, they lose a lot of what was so striking about the original conceit of the character.
I prefer the 2000's look, but he was most powerful in the original.
They gain more cake