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Here's a fun section for anything else in th world I want to put. So, let's get started eh? Daisuke Ishiwatari is a genuine freak. I love the man (not gay love, but genuine man to man love, like I also share for Marty O'Donnel who composed Halo and Halo 2) for his creation, Guilty Gear. In Guilty Gear, he is the voice of Sol, he does all of the artwork we see for the characters, he is the director, one of the producers, he is the music director, story director and writer, he is everything GG, he is everywhere of GG. There is not a single thing he is not involved in when it comes to a Guilty Gear game, and the day he isn't involved ina Guilty Gear game will be a sad day. What is Mortal Kombat without Ed Boon? Guilty Gear is the same way. Ishiwatari is Guilty Gear. (If you don't believe me about him being a freak, just look at this.) If you have an idea who the narrator is in the story, email me and I'll tell you if you're right or not. I have geared it to let it be about anyone you can think it to be, because I've made the narrator very ominous, but I have also dropped numerous hints as to who it may be. It could still be a lot of people, but there is one person who it definitely is, and we meet this person and have a lot of interaction, it's not some side person. And, obviously, it isn't Ky or Quint, since the narrator says he met both of them. So, if you can figure it out, I'll give you an honorary mention on the site under a...special persons list or something, and I won't take "Is it this person? Is it that person? Is it A person> Is it B person?" kind of rhetoric, because that's just naming people to get it right. I want someone who genuinely has one guess to get it right and does so. Guilty Gear is a tribute to all rock bands and metal heads of the 80's, in the music and gameplay, as well as giving a lot of nods to other things. The game has a ton of references to it all over. Ky Kiske is the amalgam of two meber's names of Metallica, and his super move, Ride the Lightning, is the title of their best CD (Sorry to you, Enter The Sandman fans, I love RTL more), not to mention his song, Be Quick or Be Dead is an Iron Maiden song title. Millia's instant kill is called Iron Maiden. Sol loves Queen. Testament was a small 80's heavy metal group. Slayer was another good group. Zato1 is a reference to the blind swordsman Zatoichi of old Japanese samurai flick glory. Zappa is plagued by a little girl who looks a lot like Samara from The Ring, and is named S-Ko, and in Japan, Samara's name is Sadako. Coincidence? I-No is based off of (and voiced by) a famous friend of Ishiwatari's (he's famous too) named Kykou Inoue (I think that's her full name, shoot me if I'm wrong, I don't know how to spell Japanese), and he says that the personallity of I-No is close to the person he based it on, so I bet she and him get real raunchy late night. Axl Low is based off of Axl Rose (obviously). There are so many little references in move names, characters, song names, and all sorts of other details, that you need to be a genius to know them all. But, I think that's a good list of some important ones. Ky looked older in Guilty Gear 1 than in any Guilty Gear since. Weird, huh? The game had a very different art style than the normal of Guilty Gear we now know. But honestly, I like that Ishiwatari has opted to slightly move off from the anime fare into whatever other style he likes more (be it his crazy sketched out, druggy looking people in GGX2), since the anime look is over-rated and draws in too many idiot fan boys and fan girls that I want to choke to death. Also, Baiken was in Guilty Gear 1...if you beat the game as Sol or Ky, and never lost a single match (not even a match in a round) on the hardest difficulty, and after you beat Justice, you'd get a chance to fight Baiken. You lose, and you have to do it all over again, not to mention that the game didn't save unlocked characters, and you had a very fruitless secret to get. Baiken though is closely looking to Kenshin Himura...and for good reason. When Ishiwatari was brainstorming up Guilty Gear, he saw the Kenshin series when it aired in Japan around 1995, and he liked the character of Kenshin a lot. When he found out Kenshin was a boy at the end of the series, he was like "Awesome!" and drew a female version of Kenshin to put in his game, named Baiken. So basically, Baiken is a gender changed Kenshin because of Ishiwatari's love of anime. Kind of odd, eh? But, all of the characters are lovably odd (gender confused pre-teen boys included too, I mean, who doesn't like to kill people with teddi bears?). |
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