SOULCALIBUR VI

I bought this cause there was a rumor 2B would be added eventually. It was fun even without her, but she's pretty great. Character customization was really fun.

Always be playing this with my gf, therefore I love this game. It's also cool on the graphics and the competitive energy it brings. 10/10 recommend this game for you to play with your significant other.

Pro tip: Let them knock you off the stage every once in a while. They love that stuff.

Epic Battles and Endless Customization
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

Soul Calibur IV is a fantastic entry in the series, blending fluid weapon-based combat with stunning visuals. The roster offers a great mix of classic characters and fun guest appearances like Darth Vader and Yoda, adding a unique flair. Customization is deep and rewarding, letting you create truly personalized fighters. While the single-player modes are somewhat basic, the core gameplay shines in both casual and competitive matches. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to the series, this game delivers thrilling battles and plenty of replayability. A must-play for fighting game enthusiasts!

I loved the graphics and new modes as well as the old favorites

It's a great game, I would love to see a remaster some day too!

The girls clothes come off
10/10
Best game ever

great game lots of fun . best sc since the 4th one

I totally suck at fighting games tbh, but this one is the best in the genre I've played so far

Fun weapon based fighter. Story is short but sweet and playing through it unlocks stuff for character creator. Combat is tight and fast paced with lots of variety in fighting styles/characters. Overall solid game, wish they could bring Darth Vader and Yoda back though.

If you're really itching to play some Soul Caliber, pick this up on sale. The single player story modes are underdeveloped and underwhelming.

Libra of Souls: repeated quests that go "find acquaintance 100s of miles away, just in time to save them from bandits." You can upgrade and customize weapons, but the random system gives you almost no good weapons. Final act drags on after the main story climax. Battles mostly easy with a few really hard ones at the end.

Tried the other single player mode. Play through the same story with a few battles for all of the characters. Did Nightmare's, just easy slaughter.

Main fighting mechanics are pretty familiar from older games. New mechanic seems unnecessary, just added for the sake of adding something. Too many abbreviations to keep up with in single player weapons upgrade.

Lots of people seem to like the character creator. It's cool, but I didn't feel like messing with it that much. Got a few days of entertainment for $20. Definitely don't pay $60.

it was story rich, has good battle strategy, has interesting lore, interesting characters, and its very engaging.

Positives:
• The aesthetics of Soul Calibur 6 are top notch.
• The gameplay is tight and extremely satisfying.
• The game is balanced well from a competitive standpoint.
• The characters are unique and likeable, adding charm and personality.
• The game performs smoothly with no issues.
• The training mode is great, and the game offers nice in-game resources for information.

Negatives:
• Reversal Edge is a lackluster mechanic, though it's not very good competitively, thankfully.
• Online connections are good, but rollback netcode would be better.

At the time of writing, I have seven hours in SC6 on Steam. I have many more on my old Xbox account. This is the only fighting game I've ever been able to really enjoy and put a lot of time into. It's sad that there hasn't been a peep about any potential Soulcalibur 7, even as the gap between this game's release and the present is now longer than the gap between SC5 and SC6.

Some points about the game:
* If you like/are interested in the main cast of the game, the Soul Chronicle mode tells both a main story and the side stories of what every character is up to during the timeframe covered by the game. To get the whole story you'll have to play every mission. (Note: Two of the three guest characters lack a chronicle. Geralt gets one though, as it should be for a guy who comprises 50% of the cover art.)
* The Create-a-Soul/Creation feature allows you to design a character to call your own, or alter the appearance of most of the official cast. This tool is robust enough that it was a minor internet sensation back in 2018.
* If you want to spend hours playing as your sick OC in a story that brushes up against the main cast, Libra of Soul mode has you covered. Note that you can't transfer this character to your Creation archive directly, you need to remake them from the ground up. This story also fills in a number of gaps Soul Chronicle leaves unfilled.
* Unfortunately, like most fighting games that have been out for a long time, it can be hard to find an online match. However, it is still possible.
* Game contains 2B

goated, namco pls bring back the best 3D fighter franchise I beg of you

Best game in the series by far, combat is fluid, attacks have been streamlined to make them easier to execute, most if not all the fan favorites characters are here, or are part of the DLC.

What more could you want?

10/10 Fighting game

if to be honest the game is awesome in local but in online it is difiiculty.

I already own this game on PS4, along with all of the DLC, and have put countless hours into that version. Bought the game a 2nd time, on sale, to play with friends, since it doesn't feature crossplay.

It pains me to say: the multiplayer net code is rough, ranging from tolerable at best to laggy and unplayable.

The core of the game still holds up, if you're just looking to play solo, but for what I bought it for, it misses the mark.

Very difficult to play on the keyboard. Unfortunately I was looking for OG Soul Caliber and this is not the one. Sad times.

actual dogshit in true bamco fashion its just the bones of a once great game boiled down to nothing but cheap garbage disguised by dated little cut scenes soul cal 2 diffs this dont waste your six dollars if you want this to stop dont buy it all they care about is selling you more dlc more garbage if it was released today it would have chipotle and nike ads Namco has lost the plot of what makes each of their ips any good.

lets be real, we all know its been downhill since SC2

It's kind of hard to put a grade to a product I've loved in past iterations-especially when I CANNOT get past a never ending Tutorial...I've gotten stuck more times in the (unskippable) Tutorial of Soul Calibur 6 than every Soul Calibur tutorial set combined.

Toss your coin to your Witcher. With Soul Calibur 5 being the end of the time line, the only option they had left was to go back in time. This prequel explains alot of the characters origins again. With visual novel cut scenes. Its nothing really special. Nothing really screams new or exciting. Geralt of Rivia shows up and is one of the main selling points to this game. A rated T version Haohmaru from Samurai Showdown makes an apparence. However this game just feels like a rehash of Soul Calibur done worse. Alot of based game characters are hidden behind DLC just because they want money. 2B being the only Unique DLC who is broken and the only person to rival who is the broken boss character Inferno. You can't find any matches online because the support for this game is died. All focused on Tekken 7. Its a shame because I remeber when Soul Calibur was a big house hold name that alot of people played. I think the hyped died after the low quality game 5 was. Guest characters are a great addition to games, but can't be the only selling point or you will have a died game fast. If you like this game that is fine , I just think Soul Calibur 4 is better. Also remeber when buying this game, you money is going to your Witcher. 6.5/10

Overall game

Character Creation & Custom Modes

Gameplay

No Season 3/Pipe dream/Wishlist

Conclusion

VODKA VERSE DISCORD

Video Samples of Mods

Online is delay based and there isnt much single player content
Other than that its a good game

I just wish we had SC 5 Cervantes. That's just me, though. Just trying to combo some poor doode into the ground.

While I don't recommend this game, I don't think it's a bad game.

I am choosing to not recommend it more because it is clear that Namco has given up on it, and they really shouldn't have. I think if they actually tried to make this game capture what people liked about Soul Calibur 2 and 3 so much, it would have fared far better.

The guest character stuff has always been kinda screwy to me. I liked Link in Soul Calibur 2, but ever since, their guest choices have been kinda disappointing. Star Wars characters were weird, but Assassin's Creed was appreciated; however, I could think of better choices in this game than Witcher and Neir. Final Fantasy for instance - that would be extremely fitting for this franchise. I don't know. Maybe Square Enix is too difficult to work with. They managed to get Neir, so I don't know.

It is in this respect where I think Soul Calibur 3 got it right. While many bash it for the bugs it had on its release (one of which being a devastating PS2 memory card corrupter), I think at its core, SC3 just went bananas with what this series could do gameplay-wise. Tales of Souls, Chronicles of the Sword, all the weird mini-games, and most notable - no guest characters (at least not from other game franchises). It was focused on just letting Soul Calibur (and Soul Edge) shine. It is remarkable to me that Namco STILL has not rereleased SC3 outside of arcades and the PS2. The game is near 20 years old. Get that game off the PS2!

SC6 is an attempt at bringing the series back to its roots, and I would say, well, it kinda failed. While the character creator is nice and much more fleshed out than where it all started in SC3, there is little reason to actually play this game outside of just making a new character. Hell, really, just looking at other players' creations is more worth it than actually playing it.

And again, it's not a bad game. It works. It can be fun to fight other characters, but it doesn't really offer any gameplay experiences that you haven't already gotten from other SC games (and it doesn't help that they keep changing what inputs are required to do the same moves from game-to-game. Stop that!) I would have loved to see a return of Chronicles of the Sword mode, but made better. Here in SC6, they have this really half-assed RPG mode that is very much a one-and-done kinda mode. Kinda disrespectful to what made Chronicles of the Sword stand out in the first place. It was Fire Emblem meets Soul Calibur. C'mon!

At this point, it's a glorified fighting game character creator more than anything else. I can only recommend it if you are looking to just get reminded of what Soul Calibur use to be like. Other than that, skip it and hope to God that Namco actually reboots this series the right way one day and gets SC3 off the damn PS2!

Oh and don't nickle and dime customers for soundtracks - that's a good idea too. If there is one thing that is underrated about this series, it's the music. The composer has made some real bangers in the past, but Namco thinks it's wise to make you pay extra for them. Discouraging for newcomers to the franchise, and disappointing to veterans. Stop that crap.

so i lost my controller when i was moving out of my old home. i wanted to use this game with keyboard instead...but good luck. the menus does not show keyboard buttons and the layout is confusing.

SoulCalibur I (1998): The Legend Will Never Die (it's about memorable characters)
SoulCalibur VI (2018): The Legend Will Never Buy (it's about buyable characters)

10/10 game very fun to scream at with friends

Best soul calibur

Excellent game. A lot of single-player content, a battle system that's easy to pick up, and plenty of customization options. The 'Libra of Souls' mode is an excellent way to learn a new character, giving the game many hours of content. And the female characters... well, I can say that's another positive point.

good art and fighting style

It's fun. Simple as. The peak of the series was SC1 where there would be the sounds of swords clashing when you blocked a kick, but it's an enjoyable, turn-your-brain-off 3D fighter with a long story mode that you will have zero emotional attachment to. Character creator is always fun, as usual. The only bad things I can really say are 1: nobody plays this game so you're going to have to beg people on Discord or whatever and 2: I have to live with having an achievement that says 'True Edge Master' on my account.....Thanks.

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Too many stupid mechanics really takes away from the fun.

My girlfriend uses this game for emotional abuse and I love it
Look forward to the next one

Good game. Definitely worth it, especially on a sale.
Combat is fun and diverse as it allows 3D movement and both horizontal and vertical attack. This can make for quite interesting and/or frustrating encounters as you could land an insane combo or you could completely whiff it if the opponent counters properly. There are also other mechanics in play so it keeps you on your toes.

Bandai Namco needs to revive this franchise since fighting games such as Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 are getting so much interest from new gamers.

Soul Calibur 6 is so good Namco hasn't seen a need to start on Soul Calibur 7. Graphically, it still holds up to other modern fighters. Lots of fan service in the character creation mode. Wait for a sale, any sale, and add this game to your Steam Library.

Soul Calibur got something for everyone if you fast pace action and love it and want too display it play this game. Show what your soul is.

本家 NieR より大きく表示される DLC追加キャラの 2B がナイス。

しかしすでに過疎だしキャラ間のバランス悪いし、あえてプレイする必要性は感じない。
バランス調整前にバンナム内で開発体制が崩壊されられたから可愛そうな作品になってしまった。

I love the custom character creation, the battle dynamics, the quality graphics, the quality characters... It's just a very well put together game with good mechanics and plenty to do.
If I could choose one thing in the game to change it would just be to try to improve many of the clothes, armor, accessories, etc in the character creation section to look less bulky and over sized on the characters, or add customizing abilities to them making the adjustable, that would be pretty awesome. I'm aware that it's much easier said than done, and honestly a bit knit picky considering all the game offers already, it's just something that comes to mind often when dressing up a sexy woman and seeing what looks to be a snug, form fitting dress, or cute little mini skirt or whatever, and have it look 3 to 5 times bigger than expected once it's on the character. On the plus side however, all the undergarments type stuff seems to have all been fine tuned nicely, so thanks for that!

ive played them all and will continue to

That character creator alone is worth hours of fun.

This is a fun game but I feel like the character creation is lacking, I remember so much more customization in previous games and it sad that wasn't brought into this one, other then that things run smoothly and I've enjoyed what I've played so far

Im greatly enjoy SoulCalibur III, all of the gameplay nothing is boring. The thing I enjoy in this game is just the additional cool features of the combat and Geralt of Rivia!!

I am total noob in this game. But the reason I downvoted this is a different one.
When the loading screen appeared, I was somehow surprised how "lame" it looks like.
I played Soulcalibur IV on XBox and I remember this game to be way more intuitive and good looking.

I also was disappointed by the story telling. It is just a bad drawn comic with some text.
No cutscenes or something. It really looked old. I though I would play a game from 1984 or something.

But all this was not even that bad. It just gave me a first negative expression.
So I tried strory mode and versus mode. The character selection disappointed me.
You select the character from this "matrix" with 2D images on it. But then it takes like ages to load the actual 3D model for the selected character. And somehow ... the faces of the 3D models looked cringe.
In comparison: Dead or Alive feels way more natural (but there I also hated the latest one with these annoying conversions).

So after some disappointment I tried to use "Training". This also was kind of a bad experience for me (as a noob/newcomer to this genre). I expected the combos to be shown at the bottom of the screen to practice them. Like in Dead or Alive or in other games. But this was not the case. I had to look up the combos in a list with small text which was really hard to read on the TV. The controls were all described for usage on a PC with keyboard. But I used a controller on SteamDeck so I never really figured out which button it was. Example: I pressed A on the XBox One controller ... but on screen it showed me "K" or some of the keyboard keys. Why? Wasn't that game originally made for consoles?
And there was also a section describing how to use the characters ... oh boy ... it is a huge text without any linebreaks. White font on brown background with lime green icons inbetween. This really gave me eye cancer. So I just uninstalled the game. I maybe will watch some videos on YT on how to play/use it. But I remember Soulcalibur V way better on console. The fights started fast and you could replay fast. The loading screens were barely there. But in the new one ... you are always disrupted with lagging moments. 3... 2... 1... ... ... fight ... sometimes it felt like the counting was longer than the fight.

To be fair, I think some issues might come from SteamDeck (like the keyboard keys showing instead controller buttons). But the usability is just not good. I guess I will wait for some other fighting game.

No. Not worth it. Most stuff isn't even voiced so a lot of reading for a game you are probably paying at least 60 dollars for.
As a player of the previous games I was surprised to find that even after grinding and practicing I couldn't progress the main story to unlock new characters.
If you like Mortal Combat you might enjoy this but I do not. To be fair I didn't like Mortal Combat much either for similar reasons.

As someone with over 100 hours on this game, and had made countless custom characters, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. There is a bug that can happen to you seemingly out of nowhere where your save data will be corrupted, causing you to lose all your game progress, stats, and custom characters. I have lost all of those hours of my life. Hopefully this will keep you from losing hours of your life as well.

I would recommend. It's definitely a fun game and certainly different from other fighters in that it's a weapon fighter if that makes sense. I got the game and dlc on sale its worth it for me. Graphics are nice, 2 different story modes along with the usual arcade mode. Some quality and iconic characters, plus some cool dlc characters. There is a quality character customization system in terms of costumes as well as weapons. You can also create your own character.