Soul Calibur 6 Wacky Custom Characters are Breaking the Internet
Soul Calibur 6 released last week to a flurry of news support that hasn’t died yet thanks to phenomenal reviews and news of a myriad of trolls creating custom characters. In short, the custom character creation feature, dubbed Create-A-Soul, has something for everyone. Whether you’re big on obscure looking characters with apples for heads or lizardmen with gargantuan dicks, Soul Calibur 6 has you covered. Let’s see why this decision to keep these custom characters rolling in the game could spell disaster if not corrected soon.
WTF is Create-A-Soul
The Create-A-Soul feature in Soul Calibur 6 is pretty genius and makes for great viral marketing mayhem, but there is one big, glaring flaw. When the developers created the feature, they allowed these crazy, custom characters to rock out in ranked online mode. This wouldn’t seem like a big deal if it weren’t for the fact that some custom creations skew the character’s hit box, giving them an unfair advantage which isn’t the best thing to have in a competitive gaming session.
Top-tier competitive Soul Calibur gamers have been taking to social media lately to express their concern for this feature to the Soul Calibur 6 developer, Bandai Namco. They claim (correctly) that these character inconsistencies are a disruption on competitive play and tarnish the spirit of ranked mode in the game itself. Sure, some of these characters are absolutely hilarious and could be memes for years to come, but at what cost to the franchise?
Although this increase in media visibility might allow Soul Calibur 6 to sell a few more copies, it might be a death sentence for the franchise. Albeit, it would have taken a miracle for Bandai Namco to greenlight Soul Calibur 7 given that they weren’t even convinced that #6 would sell, but hey, anything can happen, right?
