‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Star Lucy Finally Comes to ‘Guilty Gear Strive'
Lucy's appearance here looks to be justified through her mind being hacked and transferred to the Guilty Gear universe. Still dealing with the events of Edgerunners that left her old crew dead, she's determined to figure out why she's here and how to get back home. Until she finds those answers, she's got some tricks to hold her own against Sol Badguy and the rest of the Strive roster. Gameplay-wise, her she's got her wrist whips, and her hacking prowess lets her disable her enemy's powers while boosting her own, which is a neat way to adapt her style for fighting game purposes.
For the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners fans, playing as Lucy in competitive or the story mode looks to feature some callbacks to the show. She's the first guest character to grace Guilty Gear Strive (and the series overall, looks like) and funnily enough, its second consecutive anime addition. Before her, Arc System Works added Unika from the game's anime series Dual Riders to the roster this past May.
Lucy enters Guilty Gear Strive on August 21, and we'll wait to see if she graces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II with her presence when that series hits Netflix in the near future.
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