Underworld
Underworld, also called the other world,[1] is a minor location in the Guilty Gear series, appearing in Guilty Gear Judgment as the fifth and penultimate area in the story mode of the game. It is a world existing parallel to the human world, inhabited by monsters, and home to the godlike creature Inus.[2] Whether it is another interpretation of the Backyard or a separate concept is unknown.
Design
Underworld is a grim, lightless area. The floor has a red, meat-like appearance, with wisps of fog curling past, and the sky is an endless pitch black. A number of chains and bladed saws hang down from somewhere far above, and in the background a number of monsters can be seen caged or hung by the arms from chains.
Uniquely for the game, Underworld has only a single stage. In it, the player character fights past several waves of enemies before battling Inus.
Story
After confronting Raymond atop the Tower of Wind, the player character chases him through the gate into Underworld.[1] Within the other world, the player finds Raymond next to a massive sleeping monster, which Raymond introduces as Inus, the king of the other world. Raymond tells the player character he intends to achieve godhood by using Inus, but Inus, when awoken, devours Raymond and then attacks the player character.
The player character is able to defeat and kill Inus, and prepares to leave the other world; however, Raymond resurrects from Inus's corpse, having absorbed the his power. Now in the form of a gray-skinned humanoid monster and calling himself Judgment, he tells the player character that this was his plan all along: he lured them to the island and tested them by having them fight his experiments before allowing himself to be devoured by Inus, in the hopes the player character would be able to kill the monster and, in doing so, allow Raymond to absorb the Inus's powers from within without risking his consciousness being overwhelmed by the monster's more powerful soul.[2]
Judgment mockingly invites the player to follow him before departing for his new base of operations, a castle deep within the other world.[3]