CelestialZodiac

Part 5... Problem 10: This Game Shouldn't Have Happened Honestly, if this how they were going to do this game then they shouldn't have made it at all. I know a lot of fans petitioned for this game to be made because they love Soul Calibur so much, but fan petitions are denied all the time.  Also, there comes a time when all things need to end. Soul Calibur IV was meant to the final game in the Soul Series and it was meant to end the series with a bang. Say what you will about some of it's oddities, but the team really put a lot of effort into that game, it's mechanics and the stories of the characters involved. Everything had a higher sta

Part 4... Problem 7: Unbalanced Cultural Representation Something else that I noticed about V and I'm not sure if it's intentional... It's too dominated by Western Styles. There are only 6 characters from the East who represent Eastern Culture or have eastern styles. Everyone else is mostly western and this is kind of a step backwards for a series whose core staple is having warriors from AROUND THE WORLD battle each other for Soul Edge. Did they decide to shave Africa, South-East Asia (present-day Phillipines), Korea, and the Americas off of the map? For context, let me explain: When Soul Blade came out, the ratio was relatively balance

Part 3... Problem 4: Time Skips and Denial of Important Need To Know Information Because the developers wanted to do something "different", they threw in a 17 year time skip. Which was pointless. Nothing's really changed over 17 years, most returning characters either haven't aged at all (Ivy, Tira, Kilik, reportedly Taki whose absent from the game, and Raphael) or they look exactly the same as they did years ago (Algol, Hilde, Dampierre and Voldo). Others are supposedly completely different characters but they just took on the same name and style as the character that they're "replacing." (Nightmare, Astaroth and Yoshimitsu) The only ch

Part 2... Intro: Myth Busters Before I fully begin this review, I want to take some time to debunk a few myths on why this game's story is "good" or why the game in general is the best in the series. A) Because it's different from previous games. No. Different isn't always better, the nail that sticks up is the one that's hammered down. Doing things differently only works when the result is as good or better than the previous method. As we can see with SCV, throwing out the traditional character endings backfires because now we have no idea about who we're playing as.  We don't even get to choose who we play in the story mode. B) Those c