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I spent a good forty-five minutes thinking about how I’d start this review off. The first idea (which I quickly abandoned) involved me doing some sort of gimmick in the review involving time travel and altering the order of my text <-- this like of kind<-- , but I quickly realised that would be crap and is more suited to a video review anyhow. Then I thought about going on a small rant at frugal gamers who believe…
I remember playing the old SoulCalibur games religiously; I was hooked on the first one (it was one of the only games I had on my Dreamcast at the time) and that led me into buying the second on the day it came out. After that SoulCalibur III was a huge disappointment to me for many reasons, not limited to the game breaking bug that wiped your save progress. It was poorly balanced and had lost nearly everything that…
The game mode was King. I was weaving in between enemies before taking refuge in my safe zone, only to begin blasting away at my attackers from the relative safety of my ring. A fruitless exercise in reality; as soon as I'd offed a few, twice as many appeared. At the very least, I'd cleared myself a path to the next ring as the boundaries of my current one turned red and began closing in on itself. That was my…
