5. Soul calibur's story takes 17 years after events of 4th
game and in that time many things has been changed.
Sophitia Alexandra's kids Patrokolos and pyrrha has
been grewn and took their roles in story i will tell later about, Kilik, Xianghua and Taki got new followers , Astaroth and Yoshimitsu got new followers with exactly same name and Darth Vader lost his place as quest character to new one, ezio Auditore da Firenze.
Gameplay
Gaming is almost same as in other previous games
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| Ezio gives his all to siegfried |
except that fact, that this is easier to play. For example, in previous games you had to do god-knows-what things to make critical finish, but now all you need, is full energy meter and then moving joystick as you would make
shinku hadouken from street fighter and pressing r2 button (that is for Ps3, i don't
know, how it is on xbox360). Arcade mode for difference, has five ways of clearing, but it has no goddamn endings that used to be in previous games.
Characters
One thing that is also different, is characters. Some characters like old-good Maxi, Mitsurugi, Servantes, Ivy, Raphael and old tekken rip-off Yoshimitsu hasn't much. Raphael, Voldo and Servantes are okay with it, they are vampire, puppet and undead, but others have maybe found philosopher's
stone and are immortals? At least Siegfried have aged throughout the game
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| from left to right: z.w.e.i., Natsu, Maxi and Ivy |
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series. As i mentioned earlier, Sophitia, Kilik, Xianghua and Taki have
been replaced with Patrokolos, Pyrrha, Xiba, Leixia and Natsu, but also
there is new ones, such as werewolf/shamanic guy z.w.e.i.,
mystical girl Viola, beard guy
Edge master and angel-like Elysium.
Others
Story mode is kinda lame,where you can barely see quarter of all the charaters and play with even less of them. It tells about kids of Sophitia, Pyrrha and Patrokolos, who got separated in early years and has to have to fight each other, since Patrokolos got holy soul calibur in his posession, while Pyrhha got
on posession of dread soul edge. In story they also try to do not they have faithed. And one thing is still unchanged is character creation! There you can make your own heroes and heralds based on main character styles, like
katana kitty, rip-off of scorpion, Abraham Lincoln or new costumes to main characters, except Ezio, which is pity thing.
Overall 7.5/10
game's not bad, but it lacks much previous games had.
Has nice music, stages and it looks good anyway.