Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Playthrough with Sol Badguy. Ugh, this game again. I didn’t like it last time I beat it and in the five years that have passed since then I think I hate it even more now. Let me get a couple of shoutouts.
@Raivop -who gave me hints on how to beat this game originally. I probably would have never touched it otherwise.
@MightyKombat -for telling me about a Sol infinite. Which admittedly I didn’t even attempt to do because let’s face it, the CPU isn’t going to let me and someone of my level can’t do this stuff. But he did link to this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=o2zdRhF-AOg
Which informed me about a couple of useful tools Sol has which I’ll get to in a minute.
You might have noticed a complete lack of Guilty Gear on this channel. Back in the day, I had some Guilty Gear game for the original Xbox but could never beat the lady with the guitar, and I ended up getting rid of it. Years and years later I got the PSN version when it was on sale, played it, and concluded it was terrible because it was too hard. I couldn't beat the boss and I hated how the CPU could insta-kill you.
Fast forward to now and when you start the game, try and get insta-kills on the first five opponents. You might have to try repeatedly but eventually they should relent and let you do it. From stage 6 and onwards don’t bother, they wise up and you’ll never be able to insta-kill them. Instead, one of the best ways to get through this with Sol is to spam his super move. Once you get under 50% health you can use his super whenever, and it does good damage if it hits, and good chip damage if it gets blocked, so sitting there doing that non-stop can work well. The last boss can be beaten with Sol by using his bandit revolver move a lot, to try and keep the boss pinned down under pressure as much as possible. Sol's heavy slash attack is also a good move to use.
Sol also has another super move called dragon install. Using this boosts his power, but after a certain amount of time he’ll get instantly dizzied. Given what the CPU is like in this I only used it once in this run. The other thing is that he, and all other characters, can level up certain moves by doing the input but using the respect button instead of the attack button. Once you’ve got charged up, the next time you use the move it’ll do a lot more damage, especially if you’ve got charged to level 3.
I get to fight Baiken as a secret boss. To get her to appear, you just need to beat the game with Sol or Ky without using a continue. If you do that you'll get to fight her after the ending. Thankfully she's not very difficult to defeat.
I guess the main gameplay feature I need to mention are the stupid, stupid insta-kills. In this game, you can do these whenever you want -how this idea got approved is beyond me, but here we are. You can normally take out the first few CPU opponents in seconds, but they quickly start wising up, and then they'll start doing it to you. Getting insta'd doesn't just mean losing a round, it means losing the entire fight, so it can make some of the later opponents really nerve-wracking to go up against. Thankfully later games removed this feature.
This version is also the version released on the European PlayStation Network, which uses the Euro version of the game. The Euro version seems to have a glitch with the frame skip option, causing it to be always on. The win quotes were also removed. See the TCRF for more info:
tcrf.net/Guilty_Gear#Regional_Differences
I can’t believe it has been five years already since I last did this. In total I’ve beaten just four GG games in total… I’ll try to do more sometime, I promise!
Playthrough with Sol Badguy. Ugh, this game again. I didn’t like it last time I beat it and in the five years that have passed since then I think I hate it even more now. Let me get a couple of shoutouts.
@Raivop -who gave me hints on how to beat this game originally. I probably would have never touched it otherwise.
@MightyKombat -for telling me about a Sol infinite. Which admittedly I didn’t even attempt to do because let’s face it, the CPU isn’t going to let me and someone of my level can’t do this stuff. But he did link to this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=o2zdRhF-AOg
Which informed me about a couple of useful tools Sol has which I’ll get to in a minute.
You might have noticed a complete lack of Guilty Gear on this channel. Back in the day, I had some Guilty Gear game for the original Xbox but could never beat the lady with the guitar, and I ended up getting rid of it. Years and years later I got the PSN version when it was on sale, played it, and concluded it was terrible because it was too hard. I couldn't beat the boss and I hated how the CPU could insta-kill you.
Fast forward to now and when you start the game, try and get insta-kills on the first five opponents. You might have to try repeatedly but eventually they should relent and let you do it. From stage 6 and onwards don’t bother, they wise up and you’ll never be able to insta-kill them. Instead, one of the best ways to get through this with Sol is to spam his super move. Once you get under 50% health you can use his super whenever, and it does good damage if it hits, and good chip damage if it gets blocked, so sitting there doing that non-stop can work well. The last boss can be beaten with Sol by using his bandit revolver move a lot, to try and keep the boss pinned down under pressure as much as possible. Sol's heavy slash attack is also a good move to use.
Sol also has another super move called dragon install. Using this boosts his power, but after a certain amount of time he’ll get instantly dizzied. Given what the CPU is like in this I only used it once in this run. The other thing is that he, and all other characters, can level up certain moves by doing the input but using the respect button instead of the attack button. Once you’ve got charged up, the next time you use the move it’ll do a lot more damage, especially if you’ve got charged to level 3.
I get to fight Baiken as a secret boss. To get her to appear, you just need to beat the game with Sol or Ky without using a continue. If you do that you'll get to fight her after the ending. Thankfully she's not very difficult to defeat.
I guess the main gameplay feature I need to mention are the stupid, stupid insta-kills. In this game, you can do these whenever you want -how this idea got approved is beyond me, but here we are. You can normally take out the first few CPU opponents in seconds, but they quickly start wising up, and then they'll start doing it to you. Getting insta'd doesn't just mean losing a round, it means losing the entire fight, so it can make some of the later opponents really nerve-wracking to go up against. Thankfully later games removed this feature.
This version is also the version released on the European PlayStation Network, which uses the Euro version of the game. The Euro version seems to have a glitch with the frame skip option, causing it to be always on. The win quotes were also removed. See the TCRF for more info:
tcrf.net/Guilty_Gear#Regional_Differences
I can’t believe it has been five years already since I last did this. In total I’ve beaten just four GG games in total… I’ll try to do more sometime, I promise!
