Hello, everybody.

Hello, everybody. How's it going? I was having such hard time, Jake, coming up with an intro for this one.

Hello, everybody. How's it going? It's your bagheaded, random as fuck, Fousty and a wizard, Halded McNeely. Does that work? It's great. And it's me, you're super cool, nearly immortal, half dragon, giant zippo carrying, cool ninja headband i'm not a ninja i wear a leather jacket but

half a leather jacket so you can see my cool abs i am tired of this world but i have a heart of

gold i am the ultimate main character of an anime fighter sol jake how you doing i was hoping

from jake bad guy yeah i'm a great guy now. Yeah, Jake, back.

I'm a great person.

Saul Jake. And today we have an awesome guest, and thank you so much for joining us to talk about Guilty Gear, which, by the way, is what we're talking about today if you didn't figure that out from the bizarre as hell intro. So, Woolley, thank you so much for joining us to talk about the history of the incredible franchise

Guilty Gear and, of course, Arc System Works as well.

Pleasure to be here.

I love me some guilty gear.

And I mean, I will say, I think we're naming it Guilty Gear because the new game's

coming out, Guilty Gear, Strive.

I feel like at the time of this recording, it will hopefully already be out,

unless, of course, they postpone it one more time because of the net code. We'll see. Now, I'm pretty sure it's coming out. But I will say you could almost call this an Arc SystemWorks episode in a sense, because I do want to talk a little bit about Blaze Blue. I want to talk about the history of that company.

I want to talk about Dragon Ball Fighters because I think all that DNA kind of

is all in the same sort of pot. I mean, I have three pages of notes about the Battletoads port for the Sega Genesis, so we better get it. But yeah, we always start with the gush. I guess first of all, I want to start with the synopsis. Usually I wait a full 10 minutes before I give a synopsis because A, I forget, and B, I assume everyone knows what we're talking about. But I feel like this one, maybe you may not have heard of it if you're listening to this episode. So I'll just say, Gilty Gear is a series of fighting games from developer Arc System Works, whose founder and CEO is a man named

Minoru Kiduka and was originally created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishwatari.

It also has a spiritual successor with the Blaze Blue series, and Arxas also put out that fantastic

Dragon Ball fighting game as well well that I just mentioned Dragon Ball

Fighters.

And then we usually start Woolley with The Gush.

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