I’m trying to get into Gunvolt. Rn I’m kinda low on money, so would it be a good idea to start from Luminous Avenger iX since its cheaper or should I wait to buy the trilogy?

Thanks beforehand

So the games are on sale, I’m curious about them. Is there any difference between the versions of 1 and 2 between Striker Pack and Trilogy enhanced?

Sometimes game companies are weird about this so I wanted to see basically which one is considered the de facto one to get

No matter what the world thinks of Gunvolt, only Joule knows the truth. 💜

Clip from “Azure Striker Gunvolt: The Anime” (OVA, 2017). 🦋

I love Gunvolt! Please enjoy!

No, really: Joule literally is like this to Teseo. Basically, in his stage, Teseo makes some fake Lumens and has them flirt with Gunvolt. And she already canonically fears she's a cuckquean, because she has no body while Quinn does, so Teseo trolling like this really got under her non-existent skin. So she tells GV that she's going to kill Teseo and then do it again. Better yet, she even manages to do that, if by proxy through GV.

Came with that because I just got here from playing Mighty Gunvolt Burst... as Joule.

This is tempting me to buy a switch 2 so hard😭. But finally new GV content regarding xiao.

This final boss is a nightmare to me... But today I killed Demerzel!

Okay, so, with Copen sparing Blade in iX1 and all bosses of GV3 being spared, it would bring someone of the other bosses being sparable. However, while I can find it with the bosses of Gunvolt 2 and iX 1 (except Crimm because fuck him), and the choice with the iX 2 bosses is mute, as Autochrome states in his fight (he alludes to how you've fought Vespa beforehand, and mentions that Workers can be repaired even if they're killed, so he has no hard feelings for you killing his sister), for GV1, only Copen and Elise are worth sparing.

So, first, I have to get Copen out of the way. iX proves Copen can learn not to think Adepts are Always Chaotic Evil. In my opinion, he not only can, he has to. Which is why he needs to be spared.

Elise is the main point of this post. The reason she needs to be spared? First off, she's the only Sumeragi Swordsman who can: Stratos is too far gone, Zonda prefers being lumped in with the Gunvolt 2 bosses so she doesn't count as a Sumeragi Swordsman, and everyone else is an asshole; Nova claims you should just submit to Sumeragi and let them abuse Adepts forever, Jota is fanatic in his belief Sumeragi are the good guys, it's all but outright stated Viper wants to rape Joule, Carrera openly states he only cares about greed, and don't get me started on Merak. Meanwhile, Elise is meek and timid; she may have a dark side, but it's nothing that can't be fixed: it was caused by people treating her as a monster because she was an Adept, and even then her timid nature keeps her resentment of normal people, which is the true nature of her dark side, in check. (And then Merak let it loose...) If she is given the chance to have a happy life where she's not persecuted, her dark side would vanish in time.

Also, her Septima is capable of preventing Asimov from killing Joule, which ends up causing everything bad that happens in the rest of the series.

I also looked into the game itself, and I found something interesting when fighting Elise: if you focus to kill only one half, the other won't start using Ressurection right away, only when she's been damaged enough. And even then, the Elises only use Ressurection five times (at least in the initial fight; I didn't get far enough in the game to test if Crazy Elise's Ressurection restores the Ressurection count of the other two, but that doesn't bear much to my point). The point is, they wasted a perfectly good plot: why didn't they make it so killing Dom Elise without laying even a single tag on Sub Elise would allow you to spare Elise, which unlocks a different ending?

A friend of mine would even have iX!Copen accuse GV2!Copen of abandoning his Lola because of the "Mother Computer is GV2!Lola" theory. Though iX has amnesia in GX... but his Lola doesn't.

There is a theory out there that the Mother Computer from Luminous Avenger iX 2 is the same Lola as the one from Gunvolt 2. Now, I don't know what to believe on it, but I did find an interesting thing about it: according to it, Desna is right.

Before you jump the gun with "dEsNa Is FrOm EdEn", let me explain. The first time you confront Desna as Copen, she gives him the following warning: "Your life will be forfeit unless you turn back. Your path will lead you to abject misery. And you will take with you all you hold dear." Now, you're probably think this is the lunatic ravings of a genocidal maniac, and to be honest you're not alone, because so does Copen, but when you look at Luminous Avenger iX 2 Desna's claims hold a lot of water.

"Your life will be forfeit unless you turn back." The Mother Computer's Creator is long dead. Now, what matters is that it's all but outright stated that the Mother Computer is the Lola of the world Luminous Avenger iX 2 takes place, which also means that her Creator is that same world's Copen.

"Your path will lead you to abject misery." In the world of Luminous Avenger iX 2, humans are extinct, and as the Mother Computer emphasizes, there's no way to bring them back. Furthermore, the Mother Computer is deep in despair because of The Creator's death. She kept trying to bring him back, Ypsilon being the result of one of these attempts, but all of them failed, which led her to want to destroy the world.

"And you will take with you all you hold dear." Again, because the Mother Computer falls in despair. Her pain forced the Copen of the Luminous Avenger iX world to destroy the Mother Computer.

Now, this doesn't mean Copen and Lola's fate is set in stone. Desna did leave an escape clause: "UNLESS you turn back". And the Copen of Luminous Avenger iX did indeed "turn back" when he spared Blade.

I am here with a theory: namely, that Gunvolt killing Asimov in Gunvolt 1 did not prevent him from becoming Demerzel.

You see, in Gumvolt 2, you can collect Azure Spirits that grant you new powers. However, these powers come at a cost. According to the Dengeki profiles, the Azure Spirits are actually pieces of Asimov's soul, and they destabilize Gunvolt’s Septima.

Since Primal Dragons are said to be Adepts whose Septimas go out of control, it wouldn't be far-fetched for the Azure Spirits to have caused Gunvolt to become a Primal Dragon. In fact, you don't have to take my word for it. Gunvolt himself brings up the possibility that the Azure Spirits caused his issues, and Epilogue ATEMS outright has the ATEMS learn that the Azure Spirits are not just sentient, they are evil and they are the root cause of the Primal Dragon issue. And again, these are supposed to be Asimov's soul. It became a being of pure electricity that made Adepts suffer under his control. Now, where else have we seen this? Ah yeah, in Luminous Avenger iX, and once again WITH ASIMOV, who now is a psychotic being of pure electricity named Demerzel. The Azure Spirits quite literally are Demerzel, which means that Asimov managed to pull a Hijacked By Ganon in both timelines. And in Gunvolt 3, nobody figured it out.

Now, we just have to wait and see if Gunvolt GX would confirm that Asimov really is behind the Primal Dragon issue. While there is hope due to the Copen of the Luminous Avenger iX timeline teaming up with Gunvolt, he has a drama-preserving handicap of amnesia. Lola, however, notably DOESN'T have this handicap, as she tries to jog Copen's memories, so if anyone can feel Demerzel inside the Azure Spirits, it's her.

Days ago I reached bad ending of gv1 And i Don't know why.. Turns out in didn't talk to Joule more and more after killing all bosses before Sumeragi kidnapped her.. And now I talked to her more, i got Joule's homemade pendant, i equipped it, i failed more times on killing asimov, and now i done it!

I had a strange dream, about that Xiao Wu Influenced with Zonda powers is a Main Villain of Gunvolt GX and after defeat him, Copen from "Post GV2" shows up (Who also is trapped in Time Prison) and after seeing Ix and (Especially) Gunvolt, he goes into a rage and he is a Final Boss of GX.

I really want to "Post GV2" Copen (A.ka Adept Slayer) to return after they showing a Time Travel shenanigans in plot already!

Ngl it's honestly kinda surreal being able to fight the hard mode versions of the bosses in the normal game with all your upgrades but fun nonetheless.

Idol duets, anyone?

It's subbed via youtube, so unless you're fluent in Japanese, make sure you have those enabled.

Heh... Copen 2.0 #1 fan.

Shiron is adorable, that’s all