For example, to equip a character with the skill 'HP Boost' (Recover HP by pressing A + B + K simultaneosly during battle), he needs 130 Gauge points and a Style level of 6.
And there's incentive to do this, too customizing a character's armor will give you more available skill points, which give more flexibility and options when equipping skills. But the new addition is the ability to completely redesign one of the game's playable characters, a feature that was hinted around in SC3. You can, of course, create a brand new custom character from scratch. The style level helps determine what kind of skills (another new feature) can be chosen during character creation. The more you use a certain character, that character's style level will increase, all the way to level 9. A lot like Mortal Kombat, but with less button imput.Īnother new feature is character style levels. By pressing all four ofth faces buttons (or the shortcut key) at that time, your character will be perform the Soul Crush, automatically ending the round with a 'Critical Finish'.
The best part of this new feature is the Soul Crush, a move that can be executed when your opponent is flashing red and recoils from an attack. In the meantime parts of your opponent's armor that you focus on- whether it be helm, body, or leggings- will actually break off. The gem starts off green, or blue when using skills, and will slowly begin to shift colors until it reaches a flashing red state. To prevent one of the more annoying tactics, which was constant and often hard to break guarding, Bandai-Namco introduced the Soul Gauge. However, as the match went on they began to shift from green to yellow and sometimes red. For one, a colored gem placed beside the character health bar that I has simply assumed was part of the bar's decoration. But it didn't take long before I noticed some new features. The play style isn't anything new upper, mid, and low attacks, grapples, guard, and throws. And, of course, the on-stage character intro that allows for some trash talking and taunts still exists, and even seems to posses a higher CG quality than the actual gameplay, similar to a cut scene. The screen that reveals which two characters will be matched up has been upgraded a black background with the character striking some battle poses now introduces each side. So I chose one at random and began my first match. While in the previous SC games one could select from several costumes and weapons, the only customization available was between two appearances. Since I had the 360 version, my special character was Yoda, a fighter whose height often gives him an advantage parallel to that of Oddjob. Like everyone who bought SC4, Star Wars fan or not, I was curious to see how the new guest characters performed. Anxious to see how the new installment ran, I jumped straight into the classic Arcade mode. The main menu screen presented several familiar options- single player, versus, character creator, and the museum. When I first started playing Soul Calibur 4, I was convinced it was going to be simply an upgraded version of the previous titles.
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