SoulCalibur: Lost Swords is the greatest pile of garbage that we've had the displeasure of playing in quite some time, and we get through some trash here at Push Square Towers. The single player fighter was released as part of Bandai Namco's free-to-play push last year, and epitomised everything that's bad about the model. Good news, then: it's closing down.
Apparently, the title has been downloaded over two million times to date, which means that it's inflicted real misery on a sizeable number of gamers. The game will start to wind down at the end of this month, when AP Potions and Continue Tickets will no longer be sold. Then the release will be fully put out of its misery on 30th November.
"SoulCalibur: Lost Swords is less a case of Vol-do and more a case of Vol-don't," we wrote in our review. "This disastrous free-to-play experiment should have never been pulled from its scabbard, and will leave a scar on this once brilliant series. A drab campaign and awful loading times underline this colossal misstep in the stage of history."
In case you didn't get the memo, we really didn't like this game.
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When was the last legit Soul Caliber game released? I remember being nuts over Soul Caliber 2 on the GameCube. I was a beast at that game, haha. I think they should give us a new-gen Soul Caliber reboot.
This free title had a ton of post-launch support and wasn't that bad, providing you had a little patience.
Soul Calibur 2 on gamecube was the first one I played, and loved it...even buying 3, 4 and 5...but have not had the pleasure in playing this one. Hopefully, they release a new Soul Calibur as a retail release and it can bring the franchise back...or at least do a new Bloody Roar title.
when will a new SoulCalibur FINALLY be announced for PS4/One??
A tale of swords and souls eternally retold.
Except these tales were passed on orally meaning each interpretation got worse and worse. In the end, the story had lost all of it's meaning, a mockery of the original story. They really should write it down if they want to continue the story correctly.
I love soul cailbur but I stayed well away from this, I'll wait for a proper game.
@Azikira @JesWood13 I really enjoyed the Dreamcast version, I'd like to see that remastered
A shame this didn't work out. I thought the free-to-play Tekken was pretty good.
I downloaded this.....and actually stuck with it unt I got a real Soul Calibur game. Last year I got Soul Calibur 4 then I promptly deleted this. It was fine for getting me into the series but even then I knew this was garbage.
@JesWood13 The last real Soul Calibur was released in 2013, so it's been a couple years. Hopefully we'll get a new one in the next few years.
@JesWood13
2 was the best (game cube best version) The parry and block windows were perfect. They had to change the timings due to stale mates in competition, real chess match games that went on for ever - but I loved that element. And with that change it was set on a downward spiral.
In 3 it was ps2 only and the graphics were scaled back and the game came out broken with its empire type mode as the save continually corrupted. It was a well known bug, the controls changed on characters as well. The create a character was a brilliant addition though.
4 was a good fighter - but it may as well be called soul Tekken 4 - the fighting is too fast and the blocking is too hard - parrying is impossible the window is a single frame.
I see Sophitia and feel tempted to play but everything I've hard about the game puts me off from trying it, specially because I hate Free to Play... Didn't care at all about trying SoulCalibur 5 because it didn't have Sophitia or Cassandra, the only two character I care about
I never played it. I kinda forgot all about it. I thought SC5 was a letdown though.
I never tried this but loved soul blade on the ps1, so fingers crossed for a great ps4 version sophita and taki all the way.
Well, I for one had no idea this existed. Which is probably because it sucks and hasn't been mentioned in a while.
@gingerfrog you mean Soul Edge. I had the arcade board for that not too long ago but decided to use the machine to make a Radiant Silvergun.
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