My Rants: Soul Calibur 5

Boring as fuck and Multiplayer ass munchers is all I got to say for this game. You know, in these times there's a lot of games who goes after the demographics of focusing on Multiplayer like Call of Duty or Mortal Kombat which I can understand because with these two they are fun. It's fun to play with your friends and watch as you either kick your friends asses or watch your own ass get kicked. In my opinion, Soul Caliber was one of those games where it had a decent storyline, some awesome characters with their own backgrounds and plots, and like most fighting games they had a good multiplayer. Out of all of the Soul Calibur games I'd say Soul Calibur 4 was the best of the series but sadly I'm not going to talk about it.

In this, I believe that they focused too much on the Multiplayer and less on the actual game. Though I'd admit it was great that instead of having a main storyline having cinematics and cutscenes in the beginning and the end and not explain how the two characters meet and start fighting other than they want Soul Edge or Soul Calibur or whatever. But even with that improvement, it was boring and the characters especially the main heroes were boring as hell. Even Siegfried, my god man what have they done to you!?

Back then, Siegfried was just the heroic badass of the series. His crystallize paladin armor, his long blond hair, and is known as to be the best wielder of the Soul Calibur which made him even more awesome. In this, he just looks and feels like a broken old man who has nothing better to do and there's the other problem of this game; they killed off Nightmare and replaced him with the sister of the hero of the game. Not Stiegfried mine you, oh no he's not the hero. He's just in the story for one freaking level. No, the main hero this time is a guy named "Patroklos" and how he fights is with a sword and shield as well as his sister...really?

I mean really, because when I hear the two weapons "Soul Calibur" and "Soul Edge" I'd imagine them as large two handed swords that can cleave through a shoulder of an armored soldier like if it was roasted ham. Instead in this I get a metal covering and a toothpick for both weapons, now that just lowers the excitement for the Calibur VS. Edge fight. Because what's more action packed than not just two legendary weapons but two giant blades fighting it out to the death? If only they would've followed that then maybe I would've rate this a bit more higher.

But instead, we get a semi-final boss fight with both brother and sister fighting each other with sword and shield. Wait what's that, why I said "Semi-final boss fight"? Well in this game it doesnt quite end with one of the wielders defeating the other. Nope, instead it's Patroklos vs...Soul Calibur. Now okay I got to admit this was rather interesting. Because as most Soul Calibur players know the Soul Calibur was creates to be the near opposite of Soul Edge but because of its creator's lust for power it held the same tendencies as does Soul Edge has which is to manipulate its wielder and wishes to bring order in a ruthless way or for short "It want to kill all the baddies, even if it means killing innocent lives and you in general."

So for the final battle, we get to fight Soul Calibur in its human form which is depicted as an angel named Elysium. Basically after Patroklos fought his sister, Elysium or Soul Calibur does not only want to destroy Soul Edge but also its wielder as well. However, Patroklos doesn't want her sister to be destroyed and so the two fought and Patroklos claims victory. Now that we got the main story finished lets go with the characters which to be honest most of them are easily forgettable.

There are some characters who made a come back such as Siegfried, Nightmare, Ivy, Tira, Raphael and so on but the new characters...not so much. There's one character named Viola who is a fortune teller who uses a crystal ball to fight and not the whole "shoot magic out of a glass ball" but she literally uses her glass ball to fight meaning she will hit you with that damned thing. Then there's someone named Natsu who is basically the confident child version of Taki, there's a guy code named Z.W.E.I who fights with a three handled sword and some wolf like genie or something.

Then there's Ezio (yay, I guess) which to me I think they were just getting desperate into making this game more better by adding the famous assassin of Assassins Creed because he was like in three or more games of the Assassins Creed series? There's also Devil Jin but who gives a fuck about him. So now we're at the main event of the game; Multiplayer. Now for all those who likes Fighting games I know you guys probably like this but be honest here do you really think this game is better than the last one?

I mean sure we got more stuff in Character Creation as well as more classes and higher graphics and what not and you can make a erection with your character by placing a scroll pointing upwards on his crotch and what not, that's a giving but believe me when I say this just suck and is just a marketing scheme to get dumb fuck fighter players to buy it as well as their DLC to get even more money from dumb fucks like that nine year old kid down the street. Hell, even without the DLC it doesn't have much that it had back in Soul Calibur 4. Why I say that, well lets look at some pictures shall we? Go to Google and search up "Soul Calibur 5 Soul Edge" and click on the picture with the black pits for eyes, that one yellow eye dead center of the hilt with wings on the side and that rather jagged blade outline. Now tell me, do you see that in the game? No, well what about the Soul Calibur 5 Soul Calibur? Still no, well there you go.

It doesn't even have the Soul Calibur 4 blades, the only thing you have with Soul Calibur and Soul Edge about it is the Cleaver, the Veiled, and the splitted Growth version of the sword. Same thing goes with Soul Calibur which the only Soul Calibur in multiplayer is the Hidden version of it which sucks! The other forms of the two blades like the axe and what not are non-canon so I ain't even going to talk about them. Like really, was it really hard to get the versions of SC4 yet alone any of the versions of the Soul Calibur series like I dunno the Soul Calibur 3 version of Soul Calibur, the Chinese Blade version, hell even the Krita-Yuga from the original Soul Calibur?

If they would've I dunno called this a prequel of the whole series then maybe I would get into the story more better more or less but it's just bad. Unless you REALLY want to play multiplayer on this game like it was an addiction then go ahead and buy it. Just be prepared to be rather disappointed in the main story and your creation options. Not like you're going to care yet alone use them.