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Happy 30th anniversary to Street Fighter II. 30 years of a game that changed a genre!

EDIT: Ky Kiske has a Dragon Install in Guilty Gear STRIVE!! I'm not kidding!


Now, this looks like it came out of nowhere. But the truth is that this has an origin. I'm gonna quote a comment from EventHubs user SolxBaiken.

First off, Ky was shot near the climax of Xrd -SIGN-, HOWEVER GG2 (aka Overture) does explain that scene and this new technique.

More specifically, the Overture Material Collections (essentially an art, data, and development book) does as each character received a short story with pretty critical plot details that is of course accessible nowhere else (Japan loves convoluted mixed media narratives!)

Anyways, in Ky's MC short story he goes over the day he handed Sin to Sol and curiously he is sporting a slightly different look than the one in-game. An illustration shows Ky with an eye-patch on the same side of his face as Sin's and it is heavily implied that their eyes were transplanted in one another in order to limit the power of Sin's Gear cells.

Sadly this didn't go anywhere in the actual game because this (and pretty much all the short stories' events) are never referenced again. Then the scene in SIGN happened, resurfacing the relevance of the event...until REVELATOR once again all but ignores it...but it seems like StrIVe will finally address it...and in a BIG way.

Also, while not "technically canon" Ky has had an Install move before: "Kakusei" (or "Awakened") Ky and Sol were secret boss versions of the characters on steroids in Isuka, and this version of Ky sported an Install Super of his own.

And keeping it in the family, EX Dizzy in the XX games has a "Necro Install" which operates in a very similar manner.

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https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2021/feb/.../#c1630773