That along with gutting the entire pacing of the game is why I don't even consider Strive to be a Guilty Gear game lol
If anything it plays more like Street Fighter but more kusoge
I don't consider it a Guilty Gear game either. It really felt like that Daisuke lost the plot AND his balls and it reverberates in how many retcons, changes and otherwise he did Strive itself despite Xrd Sign and Revelator leading towards Strive.
>We will finally get a climatic showdown between Sol and Asuka after DECADES of buildup
Asuka just destroys Sol... but not really because his plan was to straight up remove the Flames entirely(Why didn't he do this sooner?) to make Sol be truly human(Except not as Sol is still somewhat strong so Daisuke can back off from Sol's "happy end" whenever he wants)
>Last game has Aria finally come back after all of this time and her and Sol can rebuild their relationship
SIKE! Bitch is dead and dead for good and Jack-O been fucking lying about that part(Which makes the entire subplot in both games fucking pointless... again. Atleast Sol got someone with him now, I suppose)
>Everyone in Ky's Kingdom actually loves Dizzy due to saving their asses in Revelator but it's obvious that Ky and Dizzy will still need to stay under wraps for very obvious reasons
NOPE! Ky literally abdicates his throne, Dizzy gets it for free and further work between mending the fences between Humans and Gears is complete... SOME-FUCKING-HOW(I mean what happened in Revelator was BS as is but I can understand atleast people having no issues with Dizzy's existence after saving them)
And much, much more(Like Testament who I'm not even sure is in hiding anymore despite very, VERY MUCH should still be and suddenly got a whole ass personality transplant despite never leaving the forest he was in).