Guilty Gear was created by a metalhead guitarists who made most of the animations, programming, and the music (wrote/performed) for his first game. His favorite bands/songs served as the creative DNA for the entire series. The main character's true name is Fredrich Bulsara (Freddy Mercury); his main theme for decades was "Keep Yourself Alive", another Queen reference. The secondary lead, Ky Kiske, namesake refers to Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske from Helloween. Ky's super is also literally called "Ride the Lightning", the references don't stop there. Song recommendations: (I'll pay when I'm not struggling for rent lol) "A.S.H - Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead) (Live Audio)" - From the original 1998 game. It's not the series' best but it sets the tone for future titles. Do not listen to the arranged version. "Original Bet (Johnny's Theme)" - A song about a Johnny Bravo-esque, katana wielding cowboy, who formed a women's only pirate crew; traveling the world, becoming local legends. "Symphony (ABA's Theme) - CloudDrop Lyric Video" - Vocal OST from the latest game; this track is one of a handful that balances the game's prog-metal, Daniel Townsend-esque, structure. Do not read this if you don't care, this covers the evolution of the game's music throughout the series (2000-2024): GG:X & GG:XX (2000-2012): Instrumentals tracks covering heavy metal, thrash metal, speed metal, and neo-classical among other subgenres indicative of the 70's-90's rock scenes. GG:Xrd (2014-2017): Introduced some vocals tracks and uses more late 90's-2000's rock/metal but retains much of its classic metal/rock roots. GG:Strive (2021-2024): Mostly vocal tracks and introduces prog metal structuring inspired by Queen. Expect changing time signatures and compilatory/opposing tonal shifts. [Strive is the most polarizing experience with the Japanese vocalist being an acquired taste. Songs will fall flat but many excel beyond the series because of the genre exploration]
Welcome to Guilty Gear, my favourite albu- I mean fighting game! Heavy Day is a fun dad-rock sure, but the newer songs from 'Guilty Gear: Strive' are VERY experimental and musically complex. What I've noticed from other reactions is the vocalist, Naoki Hashimoto, can be a bit grating for people when they start listening but after hearing him across dozens of tracks I think he's an extremely talented vocalist with crazy range, Heavy Day doesn't really show that off! Hope you do more Guilty Gear in the future, especially Strive. :D
You've gotta check out Smell of the Game. Heavy Day is the main theme of Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN, Smell of the Game is the main theme of Guilty Gear Strive. Huge queen vibes in that one (the creator of Guilty Gear is a huge Freddie Mercury fan) and it's just generally the perfect distillation of what Guilty Gear is like imo
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Guilty Gear was created by a metalhead guitarists who made most of the animations, programming, and the music (wrote/performed) for his first game. His favorite bands/songs served as the creative DNA for the entire series. The main character's true name is Fredrich Bulsara (Freddy Mercury); his main theme for decades was "Keep Yourself Alive", another Queen reference. The secondary lead, Ky Kiske, namesake refers to Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske from Helloween. Ky's super is also literally called "Ride the Lightning", the references don't stop there.
Song recommendations: (I'll pay when I'm not struggling for rent lol)
"A.S.H - Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead) (Live Audio)" - From the original 1998 game. It's not the series' best but it sets the tone for future titles. Do not listen to the arranged version.
"Original Bet (Johnny's Theme)" - A song about a Johnny Bravo-esque, katana wielding cowboy, who formed a women's only pirate crew; traveling the world, becoming local legends.
"Symphony (ABA's Theme) - CloudDrop Lyric Video" - Vocal OST from the latest game; this track is one of a handful that balances the game's prog-metal, Daniel Townsend-esque, structure.
Do not read this if you don't care, this covers the evolution of the game's music throughout the series (2000-2024):
GG:X & GG:XX (2000-2012): Instrumentals tracks covering heavy metal, thrash metal, speed metal, and neo-classical among other subgenres indicative of the 70's-90's rock scenes.
GG:Xrd (2014-2017): Introduced some vocals tracks and uses more late 90's-2000's rock/metal but retains much of its classic metal/rock roots.
GG:Strive (2021-2024): Mostly vocal tracks and introduces prog metal structuring inspired by Queen. Expect changing time signatures and compilatory/opposing tonal shifts.
[Strive is the most polarizing experience with the Japanese vocalist being an acquired taste. Songs will fall flat but many excel beyond the series because of the genre exploration]
Welcome to Guilty Gear, my favourite albu- I mean fighting game! Heavy Day is a fun dad-rock sure, but the newer songs from 'Guilty Gear: Strive' are VERY experimental and musically complex. What I've noticed from other reactions is the vocalist, Naoki Hashimoto, can be a bit grating for people when they start listening but after hearing him across dozens of tracks I think he's an extremely talented vocalist with crazy range, Heavy Day doesn't really show that off! Hope you do more Guilty Gear in the future, especially Strive. :D
You've gotta check out Smell of the Game. Heavy Day is the main theme of Guilty Gear Xrd SIGN, Smell of the Game is the main theme of Guilty Gear Strive. Huge queen vibes in that one (the creator of Guilty Gear is a huge Freddie Mercury fan) and it's just generally the perfect distillation of what Guilty Gear is like imo
do more guilty gear thanks