Bill Clinton Is Now In Guilty Gear Strive After Condemning The Series
The '90s were a wild time for video games. Graphics processing was increasing exponentially, allowing the player experience to go from watching a few pixels march across a CRT screen to watching people blow apart into bloody pieces. Games like Doom, Quake, and Mortal Kombat led the charge in gaming's gruesome early days, and this led politicians to allege that video games were desensitizing children and turning them into violent monsters.
That turned out not to be true, so later in the decade, the argument against video game violence changed from targeting the games themselves to the advertising that surrounded them, which could also be pretty gruesome. In 1999, then-President Bill Clinton got on stage and remarked about several video game advertisements in magazines. One of them was Guilty Gear, which had the clever slogan of "kill your friends, guilt-free."
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The same speech also mentioned Twisted Metal and Postal, but the Guilty Gear reference made it a favorite among fans. And now, those fans have found Bill Clinton himself added to Guilty Gear Strive in its latest update.
On the new White House Reborn stage, you can find a painting of a white-haired presidential figure that's a little blurry but bears a striking resemblance to President Clinton (with thanks to GameSpot for the spot). You can use the new Digital Figure mode to get the camera to point at Clinton to take a few photos, or you can use it to pose various Guilty Gear characters in far more dramatic poses.
The latest update also brought back Testament, the androgynous reaper that has turned out to be non-binary. The official Guilty Gear website confirms Testament uses they/them pronouns
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