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Story mode is a boring romp through bad voice acting and dull fights, and that is all that I feel is worth saying. Arcade is six fights that end in a boss fight (usually against Nightmare) and is just your standard arcade ladder mode that is found in other fighting games.

This time around we have arcade mode, story mode, Legendary Souls, quick battle, online, training, and creation. While SoulCalibur V may not be as devoid of singleplayer game modes as Capcom fighters, it still has less than many other games in the genre if you exclude the character creation system. What about the meat of this game? Anyone who likes their fighting games to have a wealth of side content will undoubtedly be very let down here. Suffice to say, he fits the theme of the game a lot better than Darth Vader and Yoda, and he’s also a heck of a lot of fun to play as.Įnough about characters. There’s also one guest character this time around in the form of Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed. The fact that she is even voiced by the same actress doesn’t help deter conspiracy theorists such as myself from believing quite firmly that Viola is simply a slightly older Amy (she looks mid-twenties rather than thirty or older since Amy was malfested and had her aging process slowed down). Other new characters may seem similar for different reasons, such as the energy ball wielding Viola who bears a frighteningly striking resemblance to Amy, albeit a little older. For instance, Natsu happens to be Taki’s ninja apprentice, Pyrrha fights a lot like a cross between Cassandra and Sophitia, and Xiba is pretty much just Kilik with a new face and voice. To make up for the lack of some characters being cut from the roster, they have essentially been replaced with newer and younger characters who have similar fighting styles. A few returning characters such as Aeon (Lizardman) and Kilik have also been severely altered for better or for worse. I’m sure that creates quite a lot of sadness since there are some definite favourites in there, but we still have other fan favourites still kicking around such as Ivy, Maxi, Nightmare, Siegfried, Tira, and several others. Amy, Cassandra, Rock, Seong Mi-na, Setsuka, Sophitia, Taki, Talim, Zasalamel, Xianghua, and Yun-Seong have not returned from SoulCalibur IV. I’ll just throw some names out right now just to get the depressing part out of the way. Unfortunately this means that a few fan favourites are absent from SoulCalibur V.

as well as several others help pad out the roster. Patroklos and Pyrrha obviously take center stage in this installment while a handful of other new characters such as Leixia, Natsu, and Z.W.E.I. No longer does the game focus on the exploits of Siegfried’s eternal battle with Nightmare and Soul Edge, but rather it is centered on Patroklos’ efforts to rescue his sister Pyrrha from the malfested as well as Soul Edge’s influence. It’s pretty much the same thing Namco did with Tekken 3, and we know how great that game turned out to be! Just like in Tekken 3, we have a brand new protagonist in the form of Patroklos Alexander, son of Sophitia.

#SOULCALIBUR 5 NATSU SERIES#

SoulCalibur V is essentially a reboot of sorts to the series in the sense that it has advanced time by several years in the game world so that many new characters can join the fray. Well, the fans won… But was it all worth it? They had no intention of reviving the series until fans annoyed the heck out of Tekken’s lead producer Katsuhiro Harada on Facebook and Twitter, begging him to convince Namco to get Project Soul back together again for another stab at glory. Now here we have SoulCalibur V, a game that in all honesty shouldn’t even exist! After the previous title failed to sell well, Namco disbanded Project Soul (their internal dev team that makes the Soul games). Long time fans bemoaned SoulCalibur IV, but I loved it to pieces. Granted most of my time was spent creating characters, but in total I clocked over a hundred hours with the fighter. Prior to SoulCalibur IV, I only played SoulCalibur II in a noisy Las Vegas arcade.Īs someone who was late to getting into the series, I made up for it by playing the heck out of SoulCalibur IV.

Between Soul Blade and today, my exposure has been pretty limited with the series. Do I remember much about it? Not really, except ring outs and Voldo. I still vividly remember playing the original Soul Blade in arcades back in 1997. It’s hard to believe just how old the Soul series is now.

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