Combat is simple to learn and execute, but deep enough for those looking to really set themselves apart from their competition. Gladiators, Monks, Barbarians, Knights and Assassins, all find themselves comfortably on the list and each fights in the way you might imagine they would in reality. Unlike in other fighting games, like Street Fighter, which feature characters who differentiate themselves by their martial arts, Soul Calibur’s roster instead hosts fighters with weapon mastery. What more could you ask for? Soul Calibur’s main draw and focus is just as much about the memorable characters as it is their weapons. The gameplay is visually smooth, the controls are responsive and each of the game's 22 characters feels powerful. I’m not a fighting game pro, but I do enjoy them and have some experience with Soul Calibur's past. The paramount question on everyone's mind when analyzing a new fighting game, or even just debating whether or not to play the thing, is “How’s the combat?”. Soul Calibur VI does a lot of things right by dialing everything back to basics and really reinforcing the elements of Soul Calibur that made it both strong and unique. I haven't had this much fun playing Soul Calibur since the heyday of Soul Calibur II and guest character Link of “Legend of Zelda” fame. Of course the bar hasn’t been set overly high in recent years with its most recent predecessors having featured Star Wars characters and terrible pseudo replacements to fan favorite roster members. I’ll just come right out of the gate and say that.
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Soul Calibur VI is the best in it’s series in a long time. What am I saying? In a historical world where Samurai’s fight Pirates and Ninjas fight Knights, all of that is out the window anyways. This has always been a smart move to me because it lets the developers get away with keeping the same roster over and over through the years without having to deviate or worry about timelines too much. While the multiple games over the years have a story to tell, it’s roughly the same story about good versus evil and the mythological swords that embody the struggle.
How many different characters have killed Batman’s parents over the years? Which characters make up the Avengers? For some there is a “right answer” to both of these questions, but the truth is that there are many different answers because each story has been approached so many times. This is something not too different from what I call the “superhero method”. The thing is though, unlike with many genres of games, nobody cares if a fighting game does it. “A tale of souls and swords eternally retold” is its catchphrase after all. It’s okay though, because no matter how many time I’ve told the same story to Billy, I’ll never have told it more times than Namco-Bandai has told the story of Soul Calibur. The next thing you know I’ll have stories about wars I’m too young to have been in, develop “trick joints” for every type of weather, and be wondering why my children named all of their children Billy. Forgetting I've told something to somebody only to tell them the same thing the next day is something I do already and will no doubt get worse with age. Even if I don’t manage to see that through, there is one thing I’m absolutely sure will be part of my “old man kit”, and that's repeating stories ad nauseum. Weird old guys talking to birds waves pretty much every red flag after all. One, pass on some kind of profound wisdom to a stranger that changes their life for the better, and two, don’t get arrested doing so. When I’m an old man sitting on a park bench talking to the pigeons I hope to accomplish two things. These are the stories of our lives and the things that make us, us. Not everything ends up on the highlight reel so to speak. Where does it fit into the grand epic scheme of our lives? Of course not everything we do is of note.
From there it is up to us to decide what that moment meant to us.
Every second of our life becomes the past the instant it is no longer the present. Everything we do in this lifetime is something that happens momentarily and then becomes history. That shook me to say the least because it was ultimately true. He said “Life is simply a collection of stories”. Once, in passing, I overheard an old man say something surprisingly profound.
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