...A tale of souls and swords, eternally retold! Yo this is D.A.R. Jr./MADDNESS and THIS...IS....SOULCALIBUR V!!!!!! So yeah people I'm actually very glad that this is out because I coulda sworn that it all ended in part 4 but hell I'm not questioning it! Now as most of you may have noticed, alot of things have changed. The game takes place about 17 years after Soulcalibur IV and it brings a whole new list of characters. These characters include Leixia, Natsu, Patroklos, Pyrrha, Viola, Xiba, and I don't know who the hell this is but his name is Z.W.E.I. (shown in pic) and 
he seems badass but I bet most veterans of Soulcalibur would say that he looks alot like an evil MAXI. I mean really, look at his outfit. It's basically an inverted version of MAXI's old outfit. But don't get me wrong though, MAXI does re-appear. Moving on...since this storyline takes place 17 years later, most of these characters are more or less related to the predecessing characters. For example, the blond man on the front cover is SOPHITIA's son. His name is PATROKLOS and he seems to be fighting what looks like a derivative of NIGHTMARE. And UH OH....look who it is in the background!! It's EZIO AUDITORE da FIRENZE from Assassin's Creed!! And as you can see, he will appear as he did in Brotherhood. And plus now he'll look decent in these awesome graphics!! F#$% YEAH!! Ok so the very convenient 8-way-run has been added to with a side step that can be used to dodge your opponents attacks in a single fast movement. The SOUL GAUGE that lies behind your life is now somewhat equivalent to a "Hyper Combo" bar from MVC. Filling it up can let you use moves known as "Edge" moves such as "Critical Edge" and "Brave Edge". Unfortunately the halfway impossible "Critical Finish" found in part IV is no longer there and seems to have been replaced by the "Critical Edge", which can be used when you have at least one soul gauge bar full and is GRATUITOUSLY POWERFUL!!! Online play now seems more sophisticated and will satisfy with player licenses and registering rivals. Before I go any further I just wanna say that the story mode was a bit of a let down. I was hoping to see what I saw in part IV where you can choose a character and play his/her story line. Here the story mode looks like a quest mode and is focused on the children of SOPHITIA ALEXANDRIA, with PATROKOLOS as the main protagonist. You play as him and you basically look for his sister PYRRHA, who also is playable along with Z.W.E.I occasionally. You literally only play as those three and you don't even see all of the characters. CERVANTES, KILIK, RAPHAEL, and more importantly, EZIO, and some other characters were not featured in the story mode. It'd be alot better if NAMCO used the same story mode format from the last game so you can see EVERYBODY, especially EZIO because alot of things have changed and I'd like to know what happened!! But anyway, character creation has also returned and somewhat resembles the the Character Creation mode found in Broken Destiny. You can even take a photo of your customized character with various poses and frames and backgrounds. This seems unnecessary but it's actually PRETTY DAMN COOL!! Other modes, include the classic arcade in which you can choose which route you wanna go, such as the standard, "Asia" and "Europe" routes. There is also "Quick Battle", Which is where you can choose your opponent so you can kick ass and literally take names, which means whatever title your opponent had on their name, you keep it if you win! FUN AS HELL!!! "VS Battle" has also returned along with something called "Legendary Souls", which is a SUPER FREAKIN HARD version of the standard arcade and it can only be unlocked if you beat the story. In my eyes, it's more for HARDCORE veterans of Soulcalibur and gaming in general. AND it also supports the trophy/achievement feature which is great. Oh and I'm aware that both Soulcalibur and Tekken are from the same company, but I'm not really sure how Devil Jin fits in to all of this but he's PRETTY DAMN COOL TOO!!Ok y'all so it's pretty much a good game overall the only disappointing factor was the story mode although it is still worth playing I'm not saying it sucks because it doesn't but it could've been better if they stuck with the format from the last game. That's pretty much it cuz I really want to continue playing so......this is it......for now.....
- D.A.R. Jr./MADDNESS
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