Ok picked up Soul Calibur V this week.
I have to say I love Pyrrah’s Japanese voice actress, she does such an awesome job of portraying her that you actually want to jump in the game and protect the poor girl yourself lol.
They went the mortal Kombat route for story mode, unlike SCIV where everyone had sort of a story with different endings, in SCV there’s a set story that features Patrokolos. You switch to Pyrrah every so often and you interact / fight with other characters from the 9 parts I’ve done so far.
MIA in this game (unless you can unlock them) are Talim (surprising omission since she wouldn’t be jailbait anymore). Setsuke (disappointing loved her ending in SCIV) with the legacy characters taking the places of the other missing.
Character creation mode is simplified in that you just create a character and pick a style, gone is the strategy of gear choices in IV as all choices are aesthetic in V. There’s still gear to unlock as you play and level though.
Want to finish story mode before I make a judgement on it though. Right now not liking it as much as IV, but I do applaud the development team in moving the story forward.
Just a note: the legacy characters have some similar and some unique moves to differentiate them from their predecessors, so there’s a little bit of relearning to do.