Jack-O’ Valentine’s adorable mayhem returns in Guilty Gear Strive this month

Trick and Treat

Guilty Gear Strive fans found reason to celebrate this weekend, with the long-awaited confirmation that the adorable Jack-O’ Valentine will indeed to the GG franchise as Strive‘s newest DLC character, the troublesome temptress and her army of minions will hit the GG Strive roster August 30, with season ♑pass holders having access to her a few days earlier on August 27.

Jack-O’ made her initial franchise debut in the story cinematics of 2001’s Guilty Gear X Plus, opting in as an alternate unit for That Man. Jack-O’ would truly make her presence felt come 2015’s Guilty Gear Xrd – Revelator– where she prematurely awakened from her status slumber to break free and wreak cutesy chaos on the world. Originally designed for nefarious and apocalyptic deeds, Jack-O’s infectious (and “incomplete”) personality has afforded her a far more charming and fun-loving nature, making her more a happy-go-lucky agent of chaos, rather than a bringer of doom. We like her this way.

Jack O’ is a highly complex setup-based chaos, planting “Pumpkin Houses” around the battlefield that spawn her delightful minions, the Dorpos. By combining different forms of Dorpos with her highly versatile pumpkin flail, Jack-O effectively creates confusion and controls space, often leaving her opponents feeling smothered in threat and shut down in the midst of battle. Jack-O’ could be seen as the archetypal Guilty Gear char🏅acter, combining wild fashions and sharp visual design with a complicated playstyle the requires a wealth of micro-management.♑ As such, she is deadly in the right hands.

Jack-O’ Valentine is the second DLC character to join the GG Strive roster, following the arrival of Goldlewis Dickinson last month. We can expect a Starter Guide for the pumpkin princess very soon. In semi-related news, Arc System Works announced that it will also reveal the GG veteran set to make an appearance in SNK’s Samurai Shodown very soon.