{"id":131629,"date":"2025-08-18T00:29:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=131629"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:34:31","slug":"cyberpunk-edgerunners-lucy-features-in-new-guilty-gear-strive-starter-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/08\/18\/cyberpunk-edgerunners-lucy-features-in-new-guilty-gear-strive-starter-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners&#8217; Lucy Features in New GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Starter Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With only a few days to go before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/08\/03\/cyberpunk-edgerunners-lucy-shows-off-her-guilty-gear-strive-moves-in-new-trailer\/\"><em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em>\u2018 Lucy<\/a> joins the fighting game<em> GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-<\/em>on August 21, developer <strong>ARC SYSTEM WORKS<\/strong> has released a Starter Guide video to dive into the character.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;Lucy excels at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Guiltygear\/comments\/qa7o8q\/i_just_dont_understand_neutral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neutral<\/a>, with both high mobility and ranged options at her disposal,&#8221; explains the narrator. &#8220;Unleash a complex offense by applying debuffs with her hacking skills.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If, like me, you don&#8217;t know what terms like Neutral or Roman cancels mean without having to look them up, the six-minute-plus video still offers a nice, flashy look at how Lucy and her arsenal\/skills have been translated into <em>GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-<\/em>, which is an eye-catching game to begin with.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guilty Gear -Strive- Starter Guide - Lucy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UT3Q6cAZgYI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lucy will become available on August 21 as the fourth and last character of <em>GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-<\/em>&#8216;s Season Pass 4.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners <\/em>is a web anime produced by <strong>TRIGGER<\/strong>&nbsp;and directed by <strong>Hiroyuki Imaishi<\/strong>. The series is inspired by <strong>CD Projekt Red<\/strong>\u2018s&nbsp;<em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> open-world RPG, which is set in the world of &nbsp;<strong>Mike Pondsmith<\/strong>\u2018s tabletop RPG&nbsp;<em>Cyberpunk<\/em>, and depicted the rise and fall of David, a street kid who becomes entangled with netrunner Lucy and the group of cyberpunks she\u2019s with.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> The anime was first released on Netflix in 2022 and was recently announced to be getting a sequel helmed by<strong>&nbsp;Kai Ikarashi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Cyberpunk Edgerunners<\/em>&nbsp;Episode 6 storyboard artist et al.,&nbsp;<em>Tengoku Daimakyo<\/em> Episode 10 storyboard artist and director et al.). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, <em>GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- <\/em>is the latest installment of the Guilty Gear series that dates back to 1998. It was first released in 2021 on some platforms and is currently available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One,\u00a0 Xbox Series X\/S, and Steam. Its story component is described as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Head into the final confrontation with That Man, the person responsible for all the destruction and damage to the world and and it\u2019s inhabitants. Join Sol Badguy, his rival Ky Kiske, and a total starting roster of 15 unique characters as they face the astonishing conclusion to a story 20 years in the making!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A Guilty Gear anime, <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/01\/21\/guilty-gear-strive-dual-rulers-animes-main-trailer-reveals-april-debut\/\"><em>GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS<\/em><\/a>, premiered earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;ARC SYSTEM WORKS YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only a few days to go before&nbsp;Cyberpunk: Edgerunners\u2018 Lucy joins the fighting game GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-on August 21, developer ARC SYSTEM WORKS has released a Starter Guide video to dive into the character. &#8220;Lucy excels at Neutral, with both high mobility and ranged options at her disposal,&#8221; explains the narrator. &#8220;Unleash a complex offense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,525,10534,553,11775,302],"class_list":["post-131629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-arc-system-works","tag-cyberpunk-edgerunners-2","tag-games","tag-guilty-gear-strive-2","tag-trigger"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Guilty-Gear-Strive-Lucy-Starter-Guide-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-yf3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131640,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131629\/revisions\/131640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}