Developer : Namco Bandai Games
Release date : February 3, 2012
Synopsis :
Soulcalibur V (ソウルキャリバーV, Sōrukyaribā Faibu) is a fighting video game developed and released by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.
The sixth main installment in Namco’s Soulcalibur series of fighting games, Soulcalibur V is the follow-up to Soulcalibur IV and retains the weapon-based combat that characterizes the series but follows a new character, Patroklos, who aims to rid his sister of a curse brought upon her by an ancient weapon. It is the last original Soul series timeline game.
The game received positive reviews, in which it was praised for its gameplay, atmosphere and character creation, but was criticized for the removal of fan favorite characters and for its story mode.
The game takes place in 1607, 17 years after the events of Soulcalibur IV, and centers around the children of Soul series veteran Sophitia. Her son, Patrokolos, is working as a soldier for Graf Dumas, the Roman Empire’s appointed ruler of Hungary, and is tasked with eliminating the “malfested”, a curse that is bestowed upon whoever comes into contact with the evil weapon Soul Edge, in exchange for his help in locating his sister Pyrrha, who has been missing since he was a kid. Searching a town in order to root out malfested, he is attacked and defeated by half-werewolf Z.W.E.I, who tells him that Dumas is not who he seems. Confronting him about this, Patrokolos learns that Dumas is actually aligned with Soul Edge and the ‘malfested’ he had been order to kill were actually innocent people he needed to die so he can restore the blade.
Escaping Dumas’ control, Patrokolos tracks down Z.W.E.I., who is a member of Siegfried’s revived Schwarzwind. Siegfried indoctrinates him into the group and informs him that Pyrrha is being held captive by Soul Edge devotee Tira and assigns Z.W.E.I. and Schwarzwind mystic Viola to accompany him. After a brief skirmish, Tira seemingly releases Pyrrha to her brother, who abandons Z.W.E.I. and Viola in order to bring her sister home. However, upon arriving in Greece, they are confronted by Dumas, who was actually the vessel of Soul Edge’s physical form, Nightmare. Complicating matters is that, upon Patrokolos’ swift defeat, Pyrrha is a malfested, having been slowly corrupted by Tira in the 17 years since she captures her. Unable to process what he’s seeing, Patrokos runs away in horror upon Nightmare’s defeat, causing a distraught Pyrrha to wholeheartedly side with Tira.
Returning to the Schwarzwind base, Siegfried entrusts Patrokolos with Soul Calibur, the only weapon with the power to save his sister and stop Nightmare. However, it has changed forms and had become severely weakened in the years since its last battle with Soul Edge. Looking to strengthen the blade, Patrokolos tracks down Nightmare’s former pawn Ivy, who informs him that she knows a ritual to strengthen the blade but that it requires it’s other two counterparts, Krita-Yuga and Dvapara-Yuga, which are in the possession of a young staff fighter named Xiba and Xinaghua’s daughter Leixia. During the ritual, Patrokolos has a vision of his mother Sophitia, who tells him that the only way to save Pyrrha is to kill her. During this time, Nightmare wages ware on Europe in order to strengthen Soul Edge, with Schwarzwind fighting to stop him. Z.W.E.I. manages to get ahead and kill the still weakened Nightmare, but is quickly disposed of by Tira and Pyrrha, who proceed with Tira’s true goal: though still loyal to Soul Edge, Tira found that Nightmare no longer fit the mold and had been grooming Pyrrha to take his place. However, as soon as Pyrrha picks up the demonic blade, Patrokolos arrives and kills her with Soul Calibur.
Shell shocked by what he did, Patrokolos’ mind winds up in Astral Chaos, where an encounter with Edge Master convinces him to travel back and save Pyrrha by removing Soul Edge, thereby severing its control over her. However, ‘Sophitia’ is less than pleased that Patrokolos deviated from the plan and encases him in glass, intending to take over his body to do the job he couldn’t. When Pyrrha comes to her senses, her desperate attempt to have Soul Edge save her brother frees his mind enough to allow him to confront his ‘mother’ who reveals herself to be Elysium, the spirit of Soul Calibur. After a long battle, Patrokolos is freed from Elysium’s control, and together, he and Pyrrha seal away both swords.
After Patroklos and Pyrrha sealed the two swords into the Astral Chaos, Cassandra, who had been missing for years, appears in the new timeline where she tells her younger self about the grim future of the Alexandra family.
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