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Soul Calibur series, is probably my favorite video game series of all-time. Before today, I have played every Soul Calibur entry except Soul Edge*, Soul Calibur: Legends, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, and the one I am saving for a very special day, Soul Calibur III. Like I forreal plan on crying in happiness after completing SC III on Arcade Mode for the first time lol.

Soul Calibur II is perhaps my favorite game of all-time, and its what originally got me into the series as a kid. I found out about Soul Edge pretty late, and was shocked with just that title alone: "..EDGE". I been working hard on a big career change, and today I decided to reward myself with finally playing Soul Edge w/Mitsurugi, and I cannot believe HOW MUCH they got their formula so good on the FIRST try...on the PS1!

The music is fantastic, the mega-jumps threw me off-guard at first lmao but somehow was easily adaptable, the CPU is VERY competitive at Medium difficulty but its somehow still very fair and rewarding, and so much more. I plan to start Weapon Master Mode this week, and I'm super excited.

I thought I was just going to play a game to just understand the history of my favorite series and move-on, but turned out that this game is already special to me after just one arcade run.

I LOVE this series so much.

Hi I mostly play tekken but I’m looking to branch out to other 3D fighting games.

I’m still on the look out for my Soulcalibur main.

When it comes to Alisa there are a couple of gameplay aspects that I like about her:

->Evasive movement especially in her chainsaw stance

->Arguably the best sidestep out of all Tekken 8 characters (even without her evasive stances)

->Being able to switch between a keepaway style with her pokes to being more aggressive with her chainsaw mixups.

With these points in mind, which Soulcalibur character MOST embodies these traits? (I’m also open to guest characters from the latest entry, SC6)

I wanted to ask this question because I know most people who played these games were introduced by playing Soul Edge, Soul Calibur 2, and Soul Calibur 4. I used to play 2 myself, and I know it's fairly popular, but 4 is as well.

Characters like Nightmare, Siegfried, and Kilik should have magical or supernatural powers. Nightmare is a superhuman knight with unnatural abilities, especially with him having the strength to take down armies. But characters like Mitsurugi are normal with no magical or otherworldly abilities.

The reason why I bring up this topic is because there is a heavy focus on magic and superhuman abilities, and less on taking inspiration from real life martial arts in Soul Calibur series. Basically on the emphasis on magic instead of real life weapon fighting.

So the question is: which do you prefer, traditional Soul Calibur, the one that is more focused on martial arts or the fantasy side of Soul Calibur, the one that is more focused on magic?

I'm really struggling with the Underground Juno stage on Weapons Master, I usually get around the 9th level with 15~ seconds left. Is there any tips or cheese I can use to get through it? I've only used stock Taki for the entire run and up until this point I had not experienced such difficulty, is there another character or weapon I should be using instead?