Guilty Gear Strive punishes players who look up characters’ skirts

Guilty Gear Strive screenshot of a female character — Don’t even think about it (Arc System Works)

Horny gamers have been dealt a blow in Guilty Gear Strive and Stellar Blade, as new updates block pervy camera angles.

While discussions around sexualised video game characters have been ongoing since Lara Croft’s debut on the original PlayStation, the subject became a hot button issue once again this year with Stellar Blade’s lead protagonist.

Whether you see it as immature, empowering, or harmless, most developers haven’t stopped players from ogling the characters in their games – although outfit changes in Stellar Blade did prompt some questionable complaints of false advertising.

It seems some developers are now, however, trying to protect smutty gamers from themselves, with a wave of new updates designed to stop people from any untoward camera moves.

As part of a new update for Guilty Gear Strive, developer Arc System Works has patched the fighting game’s digital figure mode, where you can view character models and freely rotate the camera around them. The update no makes it impossible to zoom in on anything impolite.

Following the update, the patch notes read: ‘Adjusted the display region of the camera so that when viewing certain areas of the figures via the camera, the display will be toggled off.’

In practice, as demonstrated on X, this means if you try to look up a character’s skirt, the model will disappear entirely. It’s not just that though and if you get too intimate with the camera then men will disappear too.

Guilty Gear Strive showing an invisible character — This is all you see if you try to get pervy (Arc System Works)

While the timing behind this update is unclear, it’s speculated that it might be connected to a change in the game’s rating by Japanese age rating board CERO.

As of November 20, Guilty Gear Strive’s rating changed from CERO B (suitable for ages 12+) to CERO C (15+), so this patch might be in response to bring it back down.

Coincidentally, Stellar Blade’s new NieR Automata DLC also features tricks to eradicate perverts. If you try to look at EVE’s underwear while dressed in the DLC’s new 2B outfit, she’ll kick the camera away – much like how 2B swats the camera away in NieR Automata.

This isn’t the first time players have been called out in this fashion. In the original Resident Evil 4, companion Ashley calls Leon a ‘pervert’ if you tried to aim up her skirt, which was more subtly carried over into last year’s remake.

Elsewhere, the same Guilty Gear Strive update also adds a new 3v3 mode, where players can utilise assist characters, along with various bug fixes.