Why Did Natsu Replace Taki In Soulcalibur V?

in 5 cervantes is human now 

Urgh, more sad news u.u

Although they did do a few things with the gameplay, I feel like the series just needs to be overhauled. Not on a cosmetic level, with changes like characters ages; but on a very basic level; with focus on game balance. The cast doesn’t have to receive cuts to make the game different. 

And yeah true Viola does use the claw on her hand, and Zwei uses that bladed tonfa; but the focus is definitely around the orb she manipulates as a projectile in 3D space, and Zwei’s ghost werewolf thing. I mean I don’t think her concept is bad (I feel like Zwei is though o~o’) but I just feel it’s more out of place in a game that focuses on what is essentially sword fights. But then again we are coming off Darth Vader and Yoda as characters *shrugs* so you’re probably right >w<'

I did not care for that one actually as many did not either. SC  & SC II. SC for DC is what put SC on the map with its perfect score.

Being a million times better than IV is not a hard feat. It’s like saying being stabbed in the foot is better than being shot in the stomach. Sure, I guess, if I have to choose between the two, the foot thing won’t particularly kill me. But I’d rather just not be assaulted.

I love Talim and Amy (especially Amy! My main too), so I’ll miss them greatly. I don’t dislike any of the new characters at all though (I’m loving Viola, who will most likely be my main).

So many people play the “at least we got something instead of nothing” card, and I disagree with that notion completely. After the past eight years I’ve seen of how Squeenix has treated their games, I’ve learned one valuable lesson: it’s better for a series to die with dignity than live in disgrace.

When I supported a return of Soul Calibur, including signing Daishi’s petition, I was supporting a return of Soul Calibur, not Daishi using it as a chance to kick out characters he doesn’t like and forcing in his own creations as replacements we’re forced to accept.

But more to the point of this specific game. One, it’s not just “a few,” it’s most of the old roster that got cut out. Having their styles in the game is meaningless, because it’s still not the same character. Natsu is not Taki, but she DOES come off as a frankenstein of ripped off (if slightly tweaked) gameplay style and new, awful personality.

And second, and far more importantly, time skips are an abysmal, completely unnecessary plot device. You want to change the roster? You can do that easy without the time skip. Instead of jumping ahead 17 years as an idiotic excuse to replace a majority of the old roster, gradually replace old characters with new ones. Give the old characters a nice, big send-off in the story that honors and respects their contributions to the series, while simultaneously introducing their replacement in the same game, as a playable.

If this game is the future of Soul Calibur, then Soul Calibur is forever dead to me. It’s been replaced by Mortal Kombat both for gameplay AND story anyway. Great gameplay built by listening to both competitive gamers and series fans, combined with finally making good use of franchise lore, while honoring the series’ past and characters. The latest Mortal Kombat is a shining example of how to do a modern fighting game and a reboot the right way. Soul Calibur V, nope.

She was single in the first game. She met Rothion, her husband, after the first game, I believe. It was about Soul Calibur II that Sophitia took on the mother category and Cassandra replaced her in the role of young Greek maiden. Cassandra also completely replaced Sophitia for the arcade version, before Sophitia was added back in for consoles.

I call it having balls because that’s exactly what it was. The fact brats like you are running around replying to just about every comment defending it is probably proof of that.

Nothing was spit on, and the timeskip was done extremelly well and tastefully. Amount of content in the story mode aside, which is another issue entirely, this was probably the best thing that could have possibly happened to the series. Another repitition of the same story wouldn’t have done anyone any good, and making a game solely to prepare for the one you really want to make just doesn’t make sense when you can go right into the game you want to make and do so just fine.

Taki may return someday, or maybe she won’t. Either way, this is Soul Calibur as it is now, and hopefully for the future, maybe through to VIII, until we get another timeskip or even change out time periods altogether and be given an entirely new roster and story.

That IS evolution, like it or not.

Alright, I really need to ask this, because otherwise it will just bug me and cause me to read the rest of your posts in a rather urked and unfair manner:

If the timeskip had been handled differently, how would you feel about just that- a timeskip?
Rather than the timeskip being Soul Calibur V in itself, what if it had started with the events that took place before those 17 years? The war that seemed to wage, and the destined battle that at long last took place between Siegfried and Nightmare concluded as the premise of the beginning of the story. Not some simple cinematic introduction to SCV’s story mode, but the premise of the first few “missions” of it.
As the feud finishes, and the victor stands tall, the curtain falls, and the next scenario takes place that 17 years in the future.
Taki’s retired, training new ninja. Setsuka’s set down her sword, her master not avenged, but her spirit settled. Zasalamel, killed once more by Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, but once more born into the world, still in youth. ( Though, I don’t know why he wouldn’t be playable; there are other characters younger than 17. ) Yun Seong… gone for whatever reason… Seong-Mina… gone for whatever reason… *wink*
What if all of those characters had received, no matter how “crappy” each cinematic or stilled picture and semi-literate text might be, a reason for disappearing after the skip?

What would you then think?

I’d also like to add that Ivy’s still in the game because she’s immortal. She also has a standing in the story as possibly the most powerful alchemist at the time. Her alchemic ability also plays a role with the two spirit swords.

BlazBlue isn’t over a decade old either, nor does it have as nearly as large a cast of playable characters, not to mention that if it DOESN’T kill off at least one character with how their storyline is developing, they’ll have lost all credibility as writers anyway. Plus, BlazBlue was in the middle of a plot – it had no NEED to evolve. Soul Calibur concludes its story practically with each game. It DID need some kind of evolution, drastic or otherwise, and this was a pretty tasteful, well done one.

Plus, in Nu’s case… Nu and Lambda are kind of the same person, so that didn’t exactly change much. I won’t get into BB talk, but really, that’s just a bad example all around.

Not to mention both that Nu was the boss character for Calamity Trigger, it was the first game in the series, and Continuum Shift highly suggests Nu will return.

Blazblue’s also a very respectable fighting game, though on a personal level I’m miffed that Kokonoe got passed over as playable in favor of Makoto and Platinum. Especially Platinum. Platinum is the first and only character to date I’ve flat out hated because of the character herself. Still, people have different tastes, so meh.

Platinum getting in before Kokonoe is one of those few cases where I feel I overreacted. I’m still willing to get the next main game though even if Kokonoe still isn’t playable. I just wish she was.

IV has mostly everyone, I believe? I can’t think of anyone offhand who got cut out from III to IV except for all of the custom fighting styles that cut out, which was a travesty in and of itself. I’d need to double check, though, it’s been a while.

Half of them weren’t even in the plot. Lizardman, Yoshimitsu, Mitsurugi, Hilde, Cervantes, Ezio, Dampirre, Raphael, Algol and Kilik don’t even appear (Though being secret charcters those last two have an excuse, as does Dampire, being DLC, and Ezio does as well since he’s a guest) while Viola and Edgemaster appear but don’t fight.