“Our lead artist, Hidehiko Sakamura, is an enormous fan of the Witcher collection. We initially wished to attain out to CD Projekt to see if we had been in a position to usher in both Geralt or Ciri from The Witcher 3,” Miyauchi-san reveals. “At the moment, CD Projekt was truly engaged on The Witcher 4. They had been telling us that lots of adjustments had been occurring round Ciri. To be sure that they might preserve the collection’ branding constant, they didn’t need to put the IP out to completely different IPs at that second.”
This early effort to add Ciri or Geralt in Guilty Gear Strive led to continued discussions between Arc System Works and CD Projekt Pink, with Miyauchi-san talking instantly with CD Projekt’s Japan nation supervisor Honma Satoru. With Satoru-san additionally a producer on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, he really helpful the Strive growth crew additionally contemplate crossing over with CD Projekt’s bold sci-fi franchise. Trying to introduce a singular character in contrast to every other beforehand established fighter in the Guilty Gear franchise, Arc System Works contemplated the inclusion of different Cyberpunk characters in Strive earlier than deciding Lucy Kushinada was the finest match.
“We had been excited about possibly bringing in Johnny Silverhand or V from the recreation. After all, in the recreation itself, the foremost character is the participant so it’s laborious to characterize that right into a combating recreation,” recollects Miyauchi-san. “We ended up selecting a personality from Edgerunners, wanting into the characters, and we finally determined to choose Lucy.”
With a fifth season of DLC confirmed at Evo 2025 and Guilty Gear Strive ported to the Nintendo Swap at the starting of the 12 months, Arc System Works remains to be laborious at work constructing out the fashionable title’s ongoing development and powerful place inside the combating recreation group. Whereas there have been no formally confirmed plans for a sequel or standalone follow-up, Miyauchi-san has been speaking about his observations of Strive intently with its director Akira Katano. These conversations have naturally included what the two would do if given the alternative to work on a possible new Guilty Gear title.
“There have been lots of experimental issues that we tried to do, seeing what may work higher. We’re doing lots of autopsy proper now, seeing what labored, what was actually obtained nicely, what wasn’t obtained nicely, going over what was mentioned inside the group,” Miyauchi-san observes. “If we’ve one other probability to make a brand new Guilty Gear recreation, what might be accomplished higher is one thing that we’ve mentioned internally loads.”
Guilty Gear Strive is on the market now for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Swap, and PC. Lucy Kushinada, the last character in Season 4 will probably be launched August 21. A fifth season of DLC is presently in growth.
