Both Asuka and Happy chaos are the main villains of the series it was revealed in strive that both of them have the title that man, but the that man that appears in the games before strive was usually Asuka
Welcome back! Glad to see you again. Y'know it never occured to me that Asukas eye thing sort of resembled a biblical angel, that's a good point. On the topic of religion in Guilty Gear yeah it's actually especially common, especially Christianity. It's all over Asuka, many other characters have it too like Leo whose swords are cross shaped or Slayers coat being loaded with crosses lol, Ky is also a devout Christian. Potemkin is also likely Hindu, and Bedman?s theme evokes themes of samsara which is the concept of cycles including the cycle of death and rebirth which is common in many eastern religions. Asuka isn't necessarily religious but religious themes play into his story and the story of much of Guilty Gear. This is definently the densest song in Guilty Gear Strive, which is absolutely fitting for Asuka, and I'm not even completely sure about the meaning of everything yet. His character is one of the main catalysts for the events of the series. He was a disciple of The Original, aka the philosopher who discovered magic (and who went on to become Happy Chaos), Asuka was also the leading scientist on the Gear Project and was good friends with Fredrick (Sol) and Aria (Justice/Jack-O*). Despite his good intentions he betrayed Fredricks trust and later he used Aria as a base to create Justice, who went haywire thanks to outside intervention and waged war on humanity for a century. His relationship to Sol and Aria is core to the story of the series but I just don't know how to sum it all up succinctly lol, it's so complex. But you can imagine that the weight of his sins must be enormous. His alias, That Man, was mentioned all the way back in Missing Link, and made sparing non-playable appearances throughout the X-XX era. In Guilty Gear 2 he was a boss and the end of that game was when his full name "Asuka R Kreutz" was dropped. He was a major character in Xrds story too but still not playable, but the end of that game was when the hood finally came off. Xrd and Strive were where his plot with Sol really started to move and by now his story is mostly resolved, and finally he was made playable, at the very end of the 2nd wave of DLC characters, as pretty much a celebration of GG turning 25, it was a huge deal. He's the most complicated character in the game, and some people have even said in all of fighting games. He casts spells using pages from the Tome of Origin, which in gameplay sort of acts like cards. He has 3 decks he can pull from that have different combinations of spells, he can "bookmark" (draw) them to have them ready for use, and there are all kinds of effects including tons of projectiles as well as placing his staff on the field which can influence the way his projectiles behave. He also has to manage a mana gauge, spending the mana to use the spells and finding spots to refill the gauge manually, some of the spells he can use are also solely used to help manage mana. Mana also gives him a massive defense buff. With mana he has the highest effective health in the game but if he runs out of it he takes double damage, making him by far the lowest effective health character in the game in that state, and he has to wait for his mana to fully charge back up before he goes back to normal. Basically, as a mage he is 2nd only to Chaos but without it he's just a normal guy, in fact he's pretty out of shape too lol. The way he's characterized in gameplay is pretty funny, the mix of omnipotent magic combined with his physical patheticness leads to him reacting to things in funny ways The whole thing with the "That Man" alias is really interesting. Originally it was believed to only apply to him but in reality due to how much history was lost/not recorded during the war, That Man naturally came about as just a person to lay the blame on, but it applied to more than one person, the other one we currently know of being Chaos who wreaked havoc during the war, but it's highly likely there are more individuals whose actions have been put under the name. Either way as silly as it might sound it's such a perfect alias for a character perceived to have caused such immeasurable harm, it's like everyone on Earth has been hurt by them so you don't even need to elaborate on what you mean by "That Man". The Asuka you play as in Strive technically isn't even him. The real Asuka is living isolated on the moon rn but he made a clone of himself off screen named Asuka R# (in German, which Asukas name derives from, you could read the clones name as Asuka R Doppelkreu(t)z, like doppelganger or even double cross) Asuka R# doesn't seem as burdened by the sins of his counterpart, which lets his curious nature shine through. He's apparently on earth collecting data for the real Asuka. You can also choose to play as the real Asuka and he'll have some different dialogue, but the clone is the default. Wishing the best for your mother and other family members. Good on you for doing so much to help, it must be hard but it's the right thing to do especially when family is so important to you.
Potemkin is Hindu?! That's awesome! He's one of my faves. As for Asuka...Thanks for breaking all this down. I've re-read it a couple of times. Still very confusing, but I have much more of an appreciation for the character now! It blows my mind that guilty gear has SO MUCH lore, especially compared to other fighting games. Awesome. :D
@@RightManWrongPlace Yeah! Potemkins home nation is Zepp which is actually a country sized airship, that was built using forbidden technology, most of the people that joined Zepp were Indian cuz that country was the most opposed to the switch to magic in the story. It's not *stated* that Potemkin is Indian but I mean looking at him and with the context of Zepp it's the logical conclusion, and one of his supers in Strive has some Hindu imagery in it. And yeah, Asuka, I honestly held back a bit on writing what I did if you can believe that lol. Go figure the guy with an almost 7 minute theme is complicated to talk about. I just realized that in omiting a lot about his story I didn't mention anything about the lyrics even tho I wanted to. I think the line I have the best grasp on is "as the universe turned black, did the sun ever defy fate? Beyond all, do you recognize me?". In Strive, Sol Jack-O and Asuka faced a force threatening all of reality, and the way they each responded to it mirrored how their former selves reacted during the Gear Project when Aria fell terminally ill. Sol utterly refuses to lose the people he loves, like when he insisted Aria be cryo frozen to wait for a cure, or when he stopped Jack-O from taking the easy way out by sacrificing herself to end the threat in Strive. Instead he faced that threat the hard way, knowing that the world could be destroyed, or it wouldn't and he'd still have the love of his life. "The sun" in that lyric would be referring to Sol, and then as for the "beyond all, do you recognize me?", that's likely Asuka trying to reconcile with Sol. Before Asuka was Sols bitter enemy, he was first Fredricks greatest friend. Does he still see his friend after almost 200 years? For reference the Gear Project took place in the mid 2010s, Guilty Gear Strive takes place in December of 2178. The lore and story is my favorite part of Guilty Gear, it's all just the perfect amounts of both anime nonsense and human relatability, I love it. The music is a close second and especially in Strive the two go pretty hand in hand which is just so cool.
As a short summary Asuka has been in the story since the first game (although his face was always covered up by his hood) and was the series' main antagonist, known only as "That Man" Even though he always had the best intentions, his actions often led to disasterous outcomes This includes the creation of the gears, and with that the start of the 100 year war known as the crusades In strive, we learn a lot more about him as a person, and are also able to play as him for the first time It also turns out that a lot of the disasters attributed to Asuka were caused by Happy Chaos (who has a whole other rabbit hole of lore attached to him) In conclusion, Asuka is a good dude who made some BIG mistakes, got framed for other atrocities, blames himself for all of it and now seeks repentance I guess this wan't short after all, guilty gear just has SO MUCH going on😅
Man with godlike knowledge does more harm than good despite good intentions. Meanwhile, Happy Chaos does chaotic stupid shit, blames most of it on Asuka. It's a song of power, reconciliation, and regret. The line "do you recognize me?" is almost certainly directed at Sol who used to be his friend.
Also, one of the most complex characters ever put into a fighting game. He has to draw his special attacks from one of 3 decks, and casts them from a hand of 4 cards. You have to do yugioh speed math with 3 decks while also playing the very fast game that is strive. Potentially the strongest character in the game, but only on paper and with a shitload of practice.
This is one of my favorite theme in this game, if i had to give my top 5 themes they would be 1. The Circle 2. The Gravity 3. Drift 4. Hellfire 5. Symphony
I feel like there's no wrong ways to interpret songs. If you find your own meaning in lyrics, I think that just lends to the personal experience you get from it... other than the rocking sounds!
Both Asuka and Happy chaos are the main villains of the series it was revealed in strive that both of them have the title that man, but the that man that appears in the games before strive was usually Asuka
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Welcome back! Glad to see you again.
Y'know it never occured to me that Asukas eye thing sort of resembled a biblical angel, that's a good point. On the topic of religion in Guilty Gear yeah it's actually especially common, especially Christianity. It's all over Asuka, many other characters have it too like Leo whose swords are cross shaped or Slayers coat being loaded with crosses lol, Ky is also a devout Christian. Potemkin is also likely Hindu, and Bedman?s theme evokes themes of samsara which is the concept of cycles including the cycle of death and rebirth which is common in many eastern religions. Asuka isn't necessarily religious but religious themes play into his story and the story of much of Guilty Gear.
This is definently the densest song in Guilty Gear Strive, which is absolutely fitting for Asuka, and I'm not even completely sure about the meaning of everything yet. His character is one of the main catalysts for the events of the series. He was a disciple of The Original, aka the philosopher who discovered magic (and who went on to become Happy Chaos), Asuka was also the leading scientist on the Gear Project and was good friends with Fredrick (Sol) and Aria (Justice/Jack-O*). Despite his good intentions he betrayed Fredricks trust and later he used Aria as a base to create Justice, who went haywire thanks to outside intervention and waged war on humanity for a century. His relationship to Sol and Aria is core to the story of the series but I just don't know how to sum it all up succinctly lol, it's so complex. But you can imagine that the weight of his sins must be enormous.
His alias, That Man, was mentioned all the way back in Missing Link, and made sparing non-playable appearances throughout the X-XX era. In Guilty Gear 2 he was a boss and the end of that game was when his full name "Asuka R Kreutz" was dropped. He was a major character in Xrds story too but still not playable, but the end of that game was when the hood finally came off. Xrd and Strive were where his plot with Sol really started to move and by now his story is mostly resolved, and finally he was made playable, at the very end of the 2nd wave of DLC characters, as pretty much a celebration of GG turning 25, it was a huge deal. He's the most complicated character in the game, and some people have even said in all of fighting games. He casts spells using pages from the Tome of Origin, which in gameplay sort of acts like cards. He has 3 decks he can pull from that have different combinations of spells, he can "bookmark" (draw) them to have them ready for use, and there are all kinds of effects including tons of projectiles as well as placing his staff on the field which can influence the way his projectiles behave. He also has to manage a mana gauge, spending the mana to use the spells and finding spots to refill the gauge manually, some of the spells he can use are also solely used to help manage mana. Mana also gives him a massive defense buff. With mana he has the highest effective health in the game but if he runs out of it he takes double damage, making him by far the lowest effective health character in the game in that state, and he has to wait for his mana to fully charge back up before he goes back to normal. Basically, as a mage he is 2nd only to Chaos but without it he's just a normal guy, in fact he's pretty out of shape too lol. The way he's characterized in gameplay is pretty funny, the mix of omnipotent magic combined with his physical patheticness leads to him reacting to things in funny ways
The whole thing with the "That Man" alias is really interesting. Originally it was believed to only apply to him but in reality due to how much history was lost/not recorded during the war, That Man naturally came about as just a person to lay the blame on, but it applied to more than one person, the other one we currently know of being Chaos who wreaked havoc during the war, but it's highly likely there are more individuals whose actions have been put under the name. Either way as silly as it might sound it's such a perfect alias for a character perceived to have caused such immeasurable harm, it's like everyone on Earth has been hurt by them so you don't even need to elaborate on what you mean by "That Man".
The Asuka you play as in Strive technically isn't even him. The real Asuka is living isolated on the moon rn but he made a clone of himself off screen named Asuka R# (in German, which Asukas name derives from, you could read the clones name as Asuka R Doppelkreu(t)z, like doppelganger or even double cross) Asuka R# doesn't seem as burdened by the sins of his counterpart, which lets his curious nature shine through. He's apparently on earth collecting data for the real Asuka. You can also choose to play as the real Asuka and he'll have some different dialogue, but the clone is the default.
Wishing the best for your mother and other family members. Good on you for doing so much to help, it must be hard but it's the right thing to do especially when family is so important to you.
Potemkin is Hindu?! That's awesome! He's one of my faves.
As for Asuka...Thanks for breaking all this down. I've re-read it a couple of times. Still very confusing, but I have much more of an appreciation for the character now! It blows my mind that guilty gear has SO MUCH lore, especially compared to other fighting games. Awesome. :D
@@RightManWrongPlace Yeah! Potemkins home nation is Zepp which is actually a country sized airship, that was built using forbidden technology, most of the people that joined Zepp were Indian cuz that country was the most opposed to the switch to magic in the story. It's not *stated* that Potemkin is Indian but I mean looking at him and with the context of Zepp it's the logical conclusion, and one of his supers in Strive has some Hindu imagery in it.
And yeah, Asuka, I honestly held back a bit on writing what I did if you can believe that lol. Go figure the guy with an almost 7 minute theme is complicated to talk about. I just realized that in omiting a lot about his story I didn't mention anything about the lyrics even tho I wanted to. I think the line I have the best grasp on is "as the universe turned black, did the sun ever defy fate? Beyond all, do you recognize me?". In Strive, Sol Jack-O and Asuka faced a force threatening all of reality, and the way they each responded to it mirrored how their former selves reacted during the Gear Project when Aria fell terminally ill. Sol utterly refuses to lose the people he loves, like when he insisted Aria be cryo frozen to wait for a cure, or when he stopped Jack-O from taking the easy way out by sacrificing herself to end the threat in Strive. Instead he faced that threat the hard way, knowing that the world could be destroyed, or it wouldn't and he'd still have the love of his life. "The sun" in that lyric would be referring to Sol, and then as for the "beyond all, do you recognize me?", that's likely Asuka trying to reconcile with Sol. Before Asuka was Sols bitter enemy, he was first Fredricks greatest friend. Does he still see his friend after almost 200 years? For reference the Gear Project took place in the mid 2010s, Guilty Gear Strive takes place in December of 2178.
The lore and story is my favorite part of Guilty Gear, it's all just the perfect amounts of both anime nonsense and human relatability, I love it. The music is a close second and especially in Strive the two go pretty hand in hand which is just so cool.
As a short summary
Asuka has been in the story since the first game (although his face was always covered up by his hood) and was the series' main antagonist, known only as "That Man"
Even though he always had the best intentions, his actions often led to disasterous outcomes
This includes the creation of the gears, and with that the start of the 100 year war known as the crusades
In strive, we learn a lot more about him as a person, and are also able to play as him for the first time
It also turns out that a lot of the disasters attributed to Asuka were caused by Happy Chaos (who has a whole other rabbit hole of lore attached to him)
In conclusion, Asuka is a good dude who made some BIG mistakes, got framed for other atrocities, blames himself for all of it and now seeks repentance
I guess this wan't short after all, guilty gear just has SO MUCH going on😅
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Man with godlike knowledge does more harm than good despite good intentions. Meanwhile, Happy Chaos does chaotic stupid shit, blames most of it on Asuka. It's a song of power, reconciliation, and regret. The line "do you recognize me?" is almost certainly directed at Sol who used to be his friend.
Also, one of the most complex characters ever put into a fighting game. He has to draw his special attacks from one of 3 decks, and casts them from a hand of 4 cards. You have to do yugioh speed math with 3 decks while also playing the very fast game that is strive. Potentially the strongest character in the game, but only on paper and with a shitload of practice.
This is one of my favorite theme in this game, if i had to give my top 5 themes they would be
1. The Circle
2. The Gravity
3. Drift
4. Hellfire
5. Symphony
I'll get to them all. Soooooooon...
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I feel like there's no wrong ways to interpret songs. If you find your own meaning in lyrics, I think that just lends to the personal experience you get from it... other than the rocking sounds!
Thank you! Occasionally it seems like I'm going to get roasted for not "getting" stuff.