Balance History: Guilty Gear Xrd Raven ("Why do people hate Raven so much?")

It is often said that Raven is a cheap, dishonest character for degenerates and reprobates - but why is that? Today we delve into the history of one of Guilty Gear Xrd's most notorious characters.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. After the incredible reception to my Xrd character overview and the Strive video about Millia's Bad Moon, I wasn't sure what to do next. I'm obsessive enough to talk about Raven for 20 minutes, but I wasn't sure if my "audience," such as it is, would want to listen to that. Ultimately I realized that I make these videos because I enjoy making them, and that I should cover whatever topics I want.

As I mention at the start, this video was inspired by Bafael's Bad Balance series, in particular his video on USF4 Elena. I really respect his clean, precise, clinical style of videography and I wanted to emulate it with some of my own touches to discuss a game and character I adore.

The real reason this video took so long is because I experimented with new video editing software: Shotcut, a FOSS editor that uses ffmpeg to encode videos. I normally use Sony Vegas, which is versatile but turns my computer to mush for half an hour whenever I need to render a video. Shotcut certainly renders better, but it lacks MANY QoL features compared to Vegas and I likely won't use it for future projects.

Special thanks to various members of the Xrd Raven Discord server for knowing more about the character than I did and for correcting mistakes during my research for this video.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Raven's Strengths & Weaknesses
04:23 Revelator
07:09 Revelator v1.03 and v1.04
09:23 Rev2.0
14:46 Rev2.1