And what’s Tira’s trademark? She’s got a dual personality! Neat! Harleen Qunizel, and the sadistic and “crazy” Harley Quinn. As an extra bit of ridiculousness, modern DC comics Harley Quinn has been randomly characterized as having a split personality: the intelligent and calculating Dr. And, oh yeah, she’s dressed like a damn harlequin. She’s sadistic, wholly dedicated to her maniacal master, and even has a penchant for influencing the kiddies. Actually, scratch that, she’s clearly modeled after Harley Quinn in every conceivable way. Tira is number one, as, since her introduction, she’s become the Harley Quinn to Nightmare’s Joker. At least one of those new souls was Goku, though.Īnd I’m not even going to acknowledge Soulcalibur Legends.īut Soulcalibur 3 does have its cast of all new duds. Soulcalibur 5 presented a number of new characters, which, despite introducing at least one werewolf, mostly whiffed with insufferable children related to the “real” characters. Soulcalibur 4 only had two new characters, but they were both about as generic as possible: “Queen Boring” Hilde and “King ‘o Swords” Algol. It was Soulcalibur 2 that introduced Raphael (history’s first Vampire LARPer), Talim (let’s make a version of Sophitia that is even more sickeningly saccharine and give her a useless weapon!), and Necrid (who never returns thanks to the dread curse of licensing issues). Soulcalibur 3 might not be as bad as its siblings. This leads to my own personal problem with Soulcalibur: when confronted with every Soulcalibur game that isn’t Soulcalibur (1), I glance at the cover, and groan “Ugh, this is the Soulcalibur game where they introduced that idiot.” And I have that reaction to every single Soulcalibur game!
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There have been female ghostbusters, guys! There was one in Ghostbusters 2! But, no, that’s not what people think about, so who cares? Soulcalibur gets much the same treatment: the cast of Soulcalibur (1) gets recycled and revitalized every chance the series gets, but anyone that premiered later is entirely auxiliary.
This is probably most obviously seen recently with Ghostbusters, which has had a myriad of comics, books, and animated tie-in materials, but when anyone that hasn’t dedicated their lives to memorizing ridiculous trivia about Slimer mentions “Ghostbusters”, they’re talking about the original 80’s movie, and not, say, that time when Egon hired the cute goth chick. When one entry in a series is so iconic, it creates a dissonance with everything that comes after. Maybe it was just because it was yet another amazing Dreamcast fighting game, but I want to say Soulcalibur was somehow both the start and pinnacle of the franchise.īut, if you’re anything like me, that creates a funny problem. This is where the true tale of swords and souls began, and, with its eclectic cast of lizard people and kabuki ninja, this was also the game that wound up sticking in most players’ brains.
Soul Edge/Blade was kind of a weird mix of 2-D and 3-D fighting sensibilities (as an easy example, it was definitely a 3-D fighter, but your character could jump thirty feet in the air), but Soulcalibur (1) was where the series really landed. I can probably draw Sophitia from memory, though… for… some reason… Considering the origin point of the series, Soul Edge, also had the benefit of being released when I was a teenager (and thus rather interested in the… bulging characters), I was hooked right from the first scene of… I want to say there was a dude riding a raft? Huh, you’d think I’d be able to remember memorable scenes. I’ve been a fan of the Soulcalibur series since the beginning, because it combines two things I love: fighting games and hitting people with swords.
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