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Malystrasza's Soul Caliber III (PS2)
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| [January 19, 2007 03:36:40 AM]
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I tried out the single player mode for Soul Calibur III. I noticed several new modes, but I decided to try out Tales of Souls first. I chose to play as Siegfried first. This mode plays similarly to the story mode of the previous game. Your character travels across the map fighting various opponents along the way until your character reaches his goal, or final opponent.
I noticed that this mode felt shorter than Soul Calibur II's single player story mode. Also, the opponents were much more challenging in SCIII, which is a good thing. I remember having no trouble with the final opponent in SCII, but when I fought Abyss, I found myself getting beat. I was actually amazed by this Abyss character. Once he grabbed me with his scythe, he threw me around. Abyss also threw some fireball thing at me when I moved away too much, but I threw him off the stage afterwards. After defeating, Abyss, there was little cut scene, which was pretty neat.
I enjoyed playing Tales of Souls mode the first time through. As you travel along the map, you are given choices on what action to take next, and depending on what action you take, you fight different opponents. Which is nice, since you can take a different path, if you play through with the same character again. Also, along the way, theres little events which a found very amusing. I guess I'm easily amused. In my fight with Zasalamel at the Clocktower, there is a big gear that is heading your way and you're supposed to move out of the way by pressing the directional pad, but the I didn't know so I got knocked out. I found that so amusing. There was another similar event where Abyss is going to hit you, and you're supposed to block I think, but I let myself get hit for fun.
I tried Tales of Souls a second time with Nightmare. The opponents were mostly the same, Zasalamel, Tira, and Taki again. Though I gave up when I fought Taki. I didn't feel like fighting her at the moment.
The last thing I tried was the custom character creation, which is a new feature. You can pick your character's gender, job (thief, dancer, and I don't remember the rest), and you can further customize your character's looks by choosing different hairstyles, faces and clothes. With your custom character you can play this other mode in the game called Chronicles of the Sword. I also forgot to mention that in Tales of Souls, in addition to the Soul Calibur characters, you fight these custom characters along the way. I thought that was pretty neat.
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Jan 19th, 2007 at 03:37:35.
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| [January 17, 2007 02:29:03 AM]
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I played some Soul Calibur III with my friend earlier. It was my second time playing this game. I use to play a lot of Soul Calibur II on my Gamecube years back, so playing SCIII on the PS2 wasn't terribly different.
I noticed there were some new characters, but I didn't get to try them out today. Instead, I played with characters that I was familiar with from the previous game. I tried out Siegfried first, since I was told he plays like Soul Calibur II's Nightmare. I played a few matches with my friend Anthony, and Siegfried's moves were indeed similar to that of the old Nightmare. It felt like I had to relearn all the moves again and get use to the PS2 controller. But overall, the game seems to be easy to pick up for new and old players alike. After a few matches, I got use to the controls, and our matches became more even. Against Mitsurugi, our matches were pretty close. I'd win some, lose some. With Maxi...Maxi is annoying so I made sure to give him a good beating. In our last matches, my friend switched to Zasalamel and got revenge for poor old Maxi.
Even though I probably recieved a beating most of the time, I had fun. I usually have fun with friends when I play Soul Calibur. Whether I win or lose, I'm satisfied that I have at least annoyed someone with Siegfried/Nightmare. Next time I play, I want to try out the story mode and see if its similar to Soul Calibur II's story mode.
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Malystrasza's Soul Caliber III (PS2)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 16 January, 2007
GameLog closed on: Thursday 1 February, 2007 |
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