Soul Calibur 5 came out last week and never have i seen a more gorgeous fighting game. Nor one with such a dearth of content or balance.
The singleplayer story is complete crap featuring the most annoying voice acting i have EVER (and this is no exaggeration) known. I refuse to play against Pyrrah for that reason. The Japs need to learn how to write stories and characters, but she is by far and away the worst I have ever seen (and i played ff13 - until i got sick of how bad the story was).
Beyond that it's just arcade mode with a few variances and a difficulty that quickly reaches psychotic. To call Legendary Souls mode (arcade mode but made far too difficult) hard is to say the sun's a bit warm.
Online is surprisingly smooth. For once a game developer seems to have cracked the netcode. It's just a shame the roster is a) full of filler (3 characters that mimic others and others notable by their inexplicable absence) and b) honkingly unbalanced. Not that balance has ever been SC's strong point.
Some gameplay controls have been inspired by Crapcom, for reasons unknown. There is now a universal (and entirely cheesy) super move for all characters. Some are way more powerful than others. Guard Impact has been changed to the same control instead of the guard button and the timing windows for such effects including the pointlessly precise Just Guard (timing is right down to the frame) are way too narrow.
A mixed bag really. But after a week of playing my beloved Raphael only to find he is a turkey with no power, no range, and not much speed nor priority and he's so linear he's predictable I feel rather bummed out. Why Namco why?
Rushed, 6/10.
I haven't played the last couple Soul Calibur games, GW, but I have to ask - is there a video game you actually like? Might serve as a point of reference so I know where you're coming from with these kinds of threads.
Quote from: VectorSigma;514051I haven't played the last couple Soul Calibur games, GW, but I have to ask - is there a video game you actually like? Might serve as a point of reference so I know where you're coming from with these kinds of threads.
I didn't say that SC5 was a bad game. It's a lacklustre game. Given the franchise's rich history it's disappointing to leave so much out. On top of that, some of the character controls are not remotely optimised for a console controller which IMO is unacceptable.
SC2 is the best fighting game ever made, and it didn't have online.
exactly, this is the best fight what I see on this platform
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