Heaven is a recurring location in the Guilty Gear series, appearing as Justice's stage since the original Guilty Gear.
Design[]
Heaven is the final boss stage of Guilty Gear. It features a large stairway leading to a gateway with a broken door. The stairs are draped in red and golden carpet, and heavily engraved pillars and archways sit on both sides. The background is cloudy, with a bright light emanating from above in the center. Large crystals float besides the archways, with creatures seemingly imprisoned inside them; due to the nature of the stage and its respective fighter, these may be powerful inactive Gears, and their crystals may be manifestations of their dimensional prisons. Guilty Gear X features the exact same stage, only with remade graphics.
In Guilty Gear XX, The stage is under despair, with the archways ruined and its broken pieces scattered arround the carpet, which is now dusty. A stone statue of a monstrous creature can be seem standing on the ground, which was previously inside a now missing crystal. The heavenly light and cloudy skies remain, but now have a distinct reddish tint to them.
Trivia[]
- The stage as a whole might be a reference to the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven".
- The sealed creatures in the background of Heaven in the original Guilty Gear give the impression they may have followed the theme of the shitenno, or "elite four" underlings of a major villain, and such Gears were possibly Justice's most powerful subordinates. Later games would represent more sealed Gears within more crystalline prisons, though they likely represent how Justice would probably had more powerful Gears under her command than just four.
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