Soul Calibur VI

Link appearing as the guest on the GC version of SCII was the entire reason I got into Soul Calibur in the first place. Though the cast of SC contained many characters who would go on to become favorites of mine. (Nightmare and Sophitia in particular.)

If we got a Switch SCVI with Link as a guest character, then I'm getting the Switch version, no questions asked. Though the rumor people keep talking about is a Fire Emblem character (probably Chrom or Lucina) being the Switch guest character. If that happens, the Switch version won't have the pull on me that it could have had.

The game is still only known to be 70% complete, so I'm going to assume that the number of slots we see on the roster screen (20) isn't final. If it's just 20 characters after all, the roster would fit all of the unique characters from Soul Edge & the first Soulcalibur, but not all of the SCII characters; having to sacrifice slots for the New Dualblade-wielder & a Guest or two.

Maybe they could go the route of hiding other selectable characters within these slots? (For example; What if you could play as Cassandra complete with different movelist, despite not seeing her in character-select right away... but you need to select Sophitia's slot & then switch "costumes"/entire characters?)


So maybe the roster could look something like this, despite having just 20 slots: Siegfried/Nightmare, Taki, Maxi, Rock/Astaroth, Seong Mi-Na, Sophitia/Cassandra, Voldo, Yun-Seong, Cervantes, Ivy, Kilik, Lizardman (Aeon Calcos), Mitsurugi/*Arthur, Xianghua, Yoshimitsu, Raphael/Amy/**Viola, Talim, Edge Master/Charade, New Dual-Blade Character, & Guest Character.

(* = Complete with his own movelist, Arthur might return as an in-joke about certain localized versions of past games replacing Mitsurugi with him. / ** = May or may not just serve as an alternate costume for Amy.)


...Neither "Edge Master" nor "Charade" are truly unique characters, as they randomly select between weapons of all other characters.  I included Edge Master simply because he's part of the the 2nd game's (Soulcalibur) roster.

I liked all the Soul Caliber series even part 5 but only because of the great character customization in that game... sadly the game's story sucked there.

I hope Soul Caliber VI will have robust character customization in it and I hope Dampierre comes back or at least his move set... he made a great "Joker" in character customization.

It's almost impossible for Ivy not to be in the game. Pretty much as much of a given as the characters in it already.

That's a really good Joker, wow. As much as I don't like Dampierre, gotta say he was useful for something then lol.

Yes as a character I hate Dampierre.... but I love his move set for character creator...  I hope we get different and new characters for new move sets too. I really wish we get a normal "claw" wielder instead of just the freaky Voldo...

(Oh and sorry for the late response lol I am not great at these things... being my first forum and all haha)

EventHub Poll Results

While there hasn't been more official news lately, I might as well post this poll.

Looks like "DasVergeben" is sharing some supposed leaked information about Soul Calibur VI on Reddit.

You probably don't need me to tell you to take this recent "news" with a grain of salt. Also be warned that the poster himself, despite linking to the 8WayRun official forums, admits being skeptical about his own sources. Nothing else about the roster of SCVI beyond two characters (Mitsurugi & Sophitia), development on Unreal Engine, and the "Reversal Edge" mechanic has been officially confirmed yet.
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All things considered, one of the new rumors suggests that another new character will be the "Dual-Blade Guy's" father.

So at the very least, if that last piece is true... Tira's getting yet another ally from her "Birds of Passage" group.