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If they do include Bridget, I'd expect him to be a dashing young man similar to Ky in appearance rather than a muscle-bound giant like Potemkin, though.
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Since Guilty Gear Strive is set to release in about a month and will have at least one post-launch season of content set for release with hopefully even more to come, time will tell if Arc System Works feel up for the challenge in tackling the difficult situation of Bridget or not. Bridget remains one of the absolute most popular characters in the series, but also one of its most problematic ones simply because there doesn't seem to be any winning play where you can both show Bridget's character progression and keep the appeal that made him popular to begin with. With Guilty Gear Strive taking place even later than Guilty Gear Xrd, the issue has hardly resolved itself, either. Betraying character motivations or timeline progression in order to preserve the childlike version of Bridget is simply not something we're likely to ever see in this series. Given that we know Bridget was never brought back for Xrd despite this proven intense demand, it seems likely that this was a key concern for Arc System Works, though they've never outright confirmed it as such.Īnyone who's familiar with Arc System Works and the way they approach their fighting games knows that no matter how nonsensical the storylines in them may seem, they are taken very seriously both by developers and a lot of their players.
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While it's never been a secret that Bridget was a male character, the feminine appearance and playful nature of him seems like it would be quite difficult to replicate naturally in an adult character who's entire journey in the series has been about proving his masculinity.Īlthough you could feasibly add Bridget with a somewhat similar moveset but more grown up or manly mannerisms, that'd come at the big risk of losing the very fanbase that so enthusiastically voted for the character in the first place. Guilty Gear Xrd takes place 6 years after Guilty Gear XX, which was Bridget's last appearance, meaning that at this point Bridget would have to be a grown adult man. Anji Mito would eventually be part of the launch roster for the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive.Ī key reason for this, I suspect, is the fact that due to the stated goal of Bridget it's very difficult to bring a character like this back without alienating his existing fans. The character even wears a headband sporting the male symbol ♂.ĭespite his enduring popularity, Bridget never made an appearance in Guilty Gear Xrd even though he beat characters who have since returned or made their playable debuts such as Baiken, Anji Mito and Raven quite handily in the official poll held by Arc System Works (the results of which you can view below).īridget ended up in 2nd place just narrowly losing the top spot to Dizzy, who was later added for Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator with Baiken and Raven later joining her. His backstory goes that he was one of two male twins born in a village where twins born of the same gender was considered an ill omen, and thus his parents decided to raise one of them, Bridget, as a girl instead since the alternative would've been for one of the twins to be sacrificed or exiled.īridget's story in Guilty Gear itself begins when he at a young age (no specific age is ever given, but based on his appearance somewhere between 12 to 14 seems accurate) sets out on a journey to earn money as a bounty hunter and return to the village with great fortune to prove the old superstitions untrue.Ī recurring theme throughout Bridget's interactions with other characters is that he doesn't enjoy being referred to as a girl or assumed to be female, and that his journey is largely about proving his manhood and being accepted as a real man. To anyone with even the briefest passing familiarity with Guilty Gear, it no longer comes as any surprise that despite the name Bridget and a quite feminine demeanor, Bridget is actually a male character.