moves ... without doubt make him the single best fighting character in any video game." Elton Jones of Complex ranked Faust ("a beast on the battlefield") 42nd in his 2012 selection of "The 50 Most Dominant Fighting Game Characters", and in pitching a fantasy crossover fighting game between the Guilty Gear characters and the cast of Darkstalkers, he wrote, "All the horror movie archetypes and whatever the hell Faust is would look sweet doing battle against each other with heavy metal playing in the background." UGO Networks ranked his "Instant Kill" finisher ("which involves medical experiments, a trap door, and a nuclear bomb") as the 36th-most gruesome finishing move in gaming history, while Complex elected it the third-coolest fighting game combo. On the other hand, he was mentioned with I-No and Millia among the series' "goofy characters" by 1UP.com. Faust's third Guilty Gear X2 ending was ranked 133rd by 4thletter.net in their 2013 selection of the top 200 fighting game endings. "It’s the closest the games have come to outright saying that [Faust and Dr. Baldhead are] the same character, as if being a 9-foot-tall doctor with a giant scalpel wasn’t enough." See also List of Guilty Gear characters References Fictional serial killers Fictional surgeons Guilty Gear characters Male characters in video games Video game characters introduced in 1998