Sophita's "bad" ending is, in all retrospect, nicer than the good ending. For her at least. Good ending: she gets peeped at while trying to bathe in the river. "Bad" ending: she's walking through a peaceful meadow surrounded by the sweet sound of chirping birds that greet her with their presence ala fairytale princess-style. I guess the devs just couldn't bring themselves to have something actually bad happen to her.
In Sophitia's "good" ending, she breaks the 4th wall by splashing water at the player Throughout the game, you are a demon, you took over the body of the character you played as, forced them to fight and only you could decide their fate with a QTE
Strangely enough this sorta fits with Soul Calibur 2/Weapon Master mode as well. You go through the whole game just to realize you were the bloodthirsty one all along and you killed literally everyone for Soul Edge. Wtf
I’d be fine with the endings as long as they were actually different from bad endings. I don’t wanna desperately see any of them get impaled, but there is little to no difference between Taki’s good and bad.
I love the music that plays in Voldo's "good" ending. This triumphant score blares in the background while Voldo gets on his knees and looks up to the sky. He would probably be screaming if he wasn't mute. It looks like something straight out of a "X happens while I play unfitting music" video.
Korean characters speak Japanese, Japanese characters speak Japanese (score!), British character speaks American English (but he did end up in North America so maybe that one can pass...err not really though), Greek character speaks American English, German character speaks American English, Chinese character speaks Japanese, dead Italian character speaks breathless American English, Spanish character speaks American English/Pseudo-Pirate English... And then there's Maude!
"British English" as we know it is an invention of the XIX century's social elites (good ol chaps and the such). Up until then, it was either Ye Olde Englishe, or a modern english that sounded exactly like American English. TMYK~
***** Yeah, it's quite the same in Tekken, Asian characters speak Japanese and European characters speak English. Howarang, however, possibly speaks Korean because he sounds completely different from the rest.
Jonathan BarSela You have my word that Howarang speaks Japanese :) It's pretty ironic that Korean characters communicate fluently, using their enemy language...
***** More likely than not (just guessing here got no real proof) all of the voices were originally japanese, cause it was out in japan first. When it was released in the western world they probably dubbed over the japanese voices in english, and decided to leave the korean, japanese, and chinese characters in japanese because "they're all asian" so it was thought it was close enough. So its less them choosing only american and japanese voice actors and more laziness/shortcuts in the translation But again just my opinion, no proof of that whatsoever
That English dub is just so stupid I was laughing at Siegfried's desperate cries, especially with that cheerful good ending music. Suddenly he starts becoming Nightmare and the song changes and I'm like "oh".
Hwang is implied being turned into a vampire similar to Raphael in the following Soul series due to Soul Edge's corrupting powers. It would be a different take of the lore if Hwang got the Soul Edge rather than Siegfried.
You know, I find that a lot of fighting game series actually have very rich lore; ironic since the story is usually the last thing most people play fighting games for.
To me it really depends on the game. Some fighting games have a really terrible lore to it (Mortal Kombat and Tekken come to mind when it comes to weak lore), but others I really like to follow the story to (Guilty Gear and the Soul series are my favorite fighting game lores)
Voldo's input ending is considered to be his bad one, I guess because he broke the weapon Vercci asked for only in the good ending Cervantes shows remorse for his actions, aside from that never ever in the entire series
Very nice video. This game is amazing. And Li Long's bad ending is canon too because he really dies and no longer appears in other games. Maxi replaces him as the nunchaku-wielder.
I find it really messed up that in Soul Calibur 4, you can perform Critical-Edges, and its not really said what happens in these brutal-overkill moves, other than the "DEATH ON THE BATTLEFIELD" achievement for performing 100. But, I hate the idea that you could possibly be killing Rock, and he has a child, why would you do this!? Kinda like how you can perform fatalities on Reptile although hes the last of his kind ; - ;
I love this comment because they still come back and the Critical Finishes were just made to introduce something new and look all flashy for the then new gen of consoles.
Additionally, big respect for, in a time of rubber-faced chaps in front of green screens going HEY WHAT'S UP RUclips, sticking to a great gimmick-free text-based style. Very relaxing to watch. Been just trawling through your CBE videos while waiting for (and then drinking) my beer club delivery.
Gamer Rob Of course I knew you were joking, and you never claimed you were against it (apart from "bad English"). Also, it sounds very similiar. It's just missing the u.
my guess for the good ending for voldo was"he brought the weapon back to his masters tomb his master also been odd ordered voldo to feel the blade, and ended up breaking it with the intense rubbing" so more or less a comically good ending.
Funny thing is, out of all the male characters, Voldo has the best outcomes. In either version, he lives with his physical health intact and remains in Vercci's treasure. Even with Soul Edge destroyed in his bad ending, things turn out well for him. Everybody else either goes insane, dies or just lose hope even in good endings (lookin' at you Siegfried).
Cervantes as per his Edge Master Mode ending becomes the owner of Soul Edge rather than following the will of the sword after defeating it in battle (he doesn't have a Cervantes boss fight because well, he's Cervantes and the one he beats at the start is an imposter Cervantes and instead runs a gauntlet against 6 characters prior to facing Soul Edge). So it's technically a good ending for him because he's a pirate. His self-sacrifice is probably more of a redemption ending though part of him regaining himself and realizing what he had become following the will of Soul Edge is integrated into the Edge Master Mode story.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Sadly, it's non-canon. But it did show there is some good in him. And I think he has a potentially good ending in Soulcalibur III. Either way, it's a Pirate's Life for him.
Actually, Soul Blade/Edge's canon ending is somewhat of a combination of Sophitia,Taki and Siegfried's endings. First Sophitia fought Cervantes and broke one of the Soul Edges which caused Cervantes to go berserk and nearly kill her. Then Taki arrives to save Sophitia and fights Cervantes and kills him before rushing to take Sophitia home to get her injuries treated. Siegfried stumbles upon Cervantes' corpse and tries to take the remaining Soul Edge which possesses Cervantes' corpse Siegfried consumed by madness at this point attacks in a frenzy and defeats Inferno in the process breaking his sword. He then claims Soul Edge which speaks to him and ultimately strikes a bargain with him to resurrect his father in exchange for Siegfried feeding it souls. And over the course of the next three years Siegfried slowly becomes Nightmare.
9:4513:4120:5639:05 (Rock, Taki, Mitsurugi, and Cervantes) I love how most that hold Soul Edge end up holding it backwards (the 3 prongs are forward, and to the left and right) 4:2624:3632:39 At least Hwang, Siegfried, and Li-Long care enough to hold the damn thing like you're supposed to (alright I'm done)
I've always loved Cervantes good ending music, I used to play it on my old piano. I too could never get into soul caliber, soul blade is always better than it's counterparts for me.
Thank you for this. All these years, and I always wondered about the endings. I never had the extra quarters to keep trying to figure out where I was going wrong.
WOW. I used to play this game all the time back in the day and must have beaten it over 100 times. Never had any clue there were any "good" endings until today.
21:06 Well, I mean... technically Sophitia did too. Then again, she was tasked to destroy it and Mitsurugi didn't know what she knew, so it's definitely more impressive with him then it is with her.
Do Soul Calibur 3 next, it also has good and bad endings. And some of the bad endings like Hwang's was terrifying. So much for a PS1 game. Anyways, please do Soul Calibur 3.
Hwang doesn't have an ending in SCIII, he's just a bonus character who can't be used in Tales of Souls. But I agree, some endings are terrifying... Tira's good ending is very tragic. But also canon, sadly.
Man I remember playing this as a kid. I would just desperately mash all the buttons during the ending since I didn't know how to get anyones good ending except Mitsurugi. It always worked too. Good times...
What the... I've played this game a million times, beat the arcade a million times, and I had no idea of this. Great video as always. Those graphics and dubs tho. Holy kilobyte. And Edgemaster was a very cool mode. Having different weapons with different effects was very cool. And the music theme fo that mode is epic.
Holy crap this totally happened to me as a kid when I beat it with Siegfried and I had no idea there were good endings in the game till Soul Calibur 3 came out and had these kinds of endings again, then I learned about Soul Edge having alternate endings, but I thought it was only for Mitsurugi. WILD
Oh, how I loved this game when I had my ps1, it was a really difficult game back in the day, at least for me. I remember the edgemaster mode, there were some difficult challenges (for example, killing your opponent just by hitting him in the air), and when I reached a certain point on this mode, the game ALWAYS freezed out, kinda strange. Anyway, really good video dude, as always.
You really should try out the other Soul Calibur games. It's a shame Soul Calibur III hasn't been re-released yet. (I kind of wonder if Li Long's bad ending is canon, since he doesn't appear in any other game besides as a bonus character in III..) Also, Soul Edge/Inferno has an ending too, but it's very short and isn't interactive. All that happens is that after defeating everyone, the swords throw themselves into the ocean for..some reason? and is discovered years later in modern times by a diver. That's it.
To be fair, her voice actress is also known for playing Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) and both Videl and Pan in the Dragon Ball Franchise, so she's mostly used to playing characters that young. Plus Mina does act like a pre-teen girl.
I can imagine being confused not knowing about the endings. I would definitely know something was up with the amount of depressing endings, but I have no idea how people were supposed to figure this shit out. Great video by the way
Damn, I still have the PS1 version of this game somewhere. I remember getting all the good endings back in the day since I had one of those cheat books from a magazine that told you what to do. Though only ending that stuck in my mind was Sophita's good ending. Hey, I was young and it was the days before the internet!
Man I used to play this game for years but it seems that 40 minutes where enough for me to learn stuff my young self playing this game could never even imagine!
I have played the arcade version of this game it was REALLY fun and I don't know if it counts be but I ALWAYS got a good-ish ending like I beat it as rock and it says he retired had a kid and a overall good ending no forbodeing things or whatever just good stuff it's also worth noting you can't make choices in the arcade version but you get a good-ish ending anyways or it was because I keep spamming all the buttons And the music in the arcade version is so goddamn good it's also ALSO worth noting there is no cutscenes at all you get a picture and some text
23:07 Y'know what else is sad for Mitsurugi? His bad ending in Soul Blade is *canon.* (Though he _does_ manage to survive, heal from his bullet-wound, and go on to defeat Tanegashima in a rematch in SC1's events.) And, from what I just read out of curiosity, Li Long canonically *loses* against Cervantes (he was the first to challenge him before Sophitia, Taki, & later Siegfried). He apparently dies from his wounds... :'(
So Sophitia's "good ending" has her bathing and with the fog covering her, it almost seems like she's naked. I guess you could call this "Kinda-nudity".
Wow I had played Soul Edge (Soul Blade) back in the late 90's... with the recent Voldo trailer released for SC 6 I decided to play Soul Blade again but this time I wanted to complete Edge Master Mode and get everyone's weapons... BTW maybe the reason your Edge Master Mode is crashing is you press Start before fighting in the BOOK menu... go to the menu and select BATTLE and it never crashes...(you may already know by know considering this video was uploaded years ago) anyway I started with Hwang and got his weapons and tried his ultimate in arcade mode... I was surprised because the Edge Master Mode had Hwang's good ending but the arcade mode had his bad ending... because Sigfried in both Edge Master and Arcade mode had the same ending (bad) and that's when I found out that the arcade mode had multiple endings... and thank you since I got to see all the endings without the hassle of pressing buttons lol...
EdgeMaster mode actually shows the canonical ending for each character. So depending on which character you pick, you get either the good or the bad ending. Hwang and Mitsurugi, for example get their good endings while Siegfried and Cervantes get the bad ending. =D
Thanks for sharing this. The first game in the Soul series doesn't get much attention, and I like all the funny comments you put in :) I'm sure that rifle guy just had a flesh wound, right?
Sophitia's canon ending is much darker. She only destroyed one of the swords and when it shattered, one of its shards ended up getting stuck in her heart. She later had to pull it out to spare her kids from being subject to Soul Edge's influence, but died as a result.
It´s interesting that any of the woman were manipulated by the weapon SoulEdge. And one curiosity: one day I played this game with Voldo and his life bar has finished at the same time of the oponent. Result: The game says that you win the round!
Good video, although you forgot Soul Edge's ending. Yes, "he" only has one ending and no alternative endings, but "his" ending could qualify as a Bad Ending.
hey git! What about making a creepy bad ending for mortal kombat(any of them)? There are a lot of creepy bad endings the ending of nightwolf on MK9 for a recent example.
Episode 44: ruclips.net/video/VgjkK3GJwcU/видео.html
Hey, if I was a demonic sword being rubbed against some creep's face, I'd self-destruct too.
Why wouldn't I self-destruct?
Meanwhile I would embrace it :>
Sophita's "bad" ending is, in all retrospect, nicer than the good ending. For her at least.
Good ending: she gets peeped at while trying to bathe in the river.
"Bad" ending: she's walking through a peaceful meadow surrounded by the sweet sound of chirping birds that greet her with their presence ala fairytale princess-style.
I guess the devs just couldn't bring themselves to have something actually bad happen to her.
Until the sequels that is.
Sheesh, did they ever put her through the wringer after this one.
The series really did Sophitia dirty. Wonder what SC7 will have in store for her if the dlc in SC6 is anything to go by.
Simps
@@MasterSwo Cutting her a break before shit really hits the fan for her.
In Sophitia's "good" ending, she breaks the 4th wall by splashing water at the player
Throughout the game, you are a demon, you took over the body of the character you played as, forced them to fight and only you could decide their fate with a QTE
Strangely enough this sorta fits with Soul Calibur 2/Weapon Master mode as well. You go through the whole game just to realize you were the bloodthirsty one all along and you killed literally everyone for Soul Edge. Wtf
and then you get the good ending with someone like rock and they just yeet the soul edge like they didnt murder others for it
Poor Soul Edge couldn't handle all of Voldo's LOVE
Timestamps for each character's ending
3:52 Hwang
8:24 Rock
12:16 Taki
16:18 Sophitia
20:12 Mitsurugi
23:25 Siegfried
26:47 Seong Mi-Na
30:48 Li Long
34:17 Voldo
37:38 Cervantes
Button inputs determine an ending. what genius thought of that idea should be slapped.
Me
Soul calibur 3 did it again but at least they told you which buttons to press.
I have to admit, the females got off easier than the males.
I’d be fine with the endings as long as they were actually different from bad endings. I don’t wanna desperately see any of them get impaled, but there is little to no difference between Taki’s good and bad.
Sounds like America.
I love the music that plays in Voldo's "good" ending. This triumphant score blares in the background while Voldo gets on his knees and looks up to the sky. He would probably be screaming if he wasn't mute. It looks like something straight out of a "X happens while I play unfitting music" video.
Korean characters speak Japanese, Japanese characters speak Japanese (score!), British character speaks American English (but he did end up in North America so maybe that one can pass...err not really though), Greek character speaks American English, German character speaks American English, Chinese character speaks Japanese, dead Italian character speaks breathless American English, Spanish character speaks American English/Pseudo-Pirate English...
And then there's Maude!
"British English" as we know it is an invention of the XIX century's social elites (good ol chaps and the such). Up until then, it was either Ye Olde Englishe, or a modern english that sounded exactly like American English.
TMYK~
***** Yeah, it's quite the same in Tekken, Asian characters speak Japanese and European characters speak English. Howarang, however, possibly speaks Korean because he sounds completely different from the rest.
Jonathan BarSela You have my word that Howarang speaks Japanese :) It's pretty ironic that Korean characters communicate fluently, using their enemy language...
***** More likely than not (just guessing here got no real proof) all of the voices were originally japanese, cause it was out in japan first. When it was released in the western world they probably dubbed over the japanese voices in english, and decided to leave the korean, japanese, and chinese characters in japanese because "they're all asian" so it was thought it was close enough. So its less them choosing only american and japanese voice actors and more laziness/shortcuts in the translation
But again just my opinion, no proof of that whatsoever
saintsinna By the time SC3 came out, they were all speaking English.
Looks like Sophitia prefers being stalked by a pervert guy instead being surrounded by cute birds.
tiniracoon apparently that was cassandra at the end at least according to wiki
that's even more fanservice XD
The good ending was more for the fans than her I'm guessing, haha! 😆
The good ending was more for the fans than her I'm guessing, haha! 😆
tiniracoon The bad ending for Sophita should've been good ending.
Imagine if Namco had gone with Hwang's bad ending instead of Siegfried's - then he could have been the villain for the next few games.
That English dub is just so stupid I was laughing at Siegfried's desperate cries, especially with that cheerful good ending music. Suddenly he starts becoming Nightmare and the song changes and I'm like "oh".
***** This game's dub is so bad that it's good.
Indeed, man.
When it comes to Eric Kelso, video games become the cheese.
i can kinda believe sigfried
rock on the other hand
Cervantes' good/input ending is pretty much the only time in the entire series where he isn't evil, power hungry or selfish.
As a kid, I got super hype thinking that i unlocked a new character called Tanegashima
Taki's good end: Basically forges the Soulcalibur from Cervantes' blade
Siegfried's bad end: Becomes Nightmare
And it's Taki's ultimate weapon from Edge Master Mode the Spirit Blade.
Both Hwang's bad ending and Siegfried's bad ending are freakin' scary, man!
Yeah, Siegfried bad ending is part of lore on soul calibur. He did become nightmare, you can see nightmare returns rest of soul calibur
Hwang is implied being turned into a vampire similar to Raphael in the following Soul series due to Soul Edge's corrupting powers. It would be a different take of the lore if Hwang got the Soul Edge rather than Siegfried.
+takarifan I like to believe that it just turned out as a hwang.exe.
@@Profile_Snail He looks more like a Dollar Store version of Erazor Djinn that way.
@@oculttheexegaming2509 Bit late to the party there, but yeah, I guess you could say that.
The girls of Soul Edge have not been skipping leg day.
For voldos first ending you showed, Soul edge just wanted to get away from the darn guy so it exploded itself.
"I never had such an easy victory!"
*collapses*
LOL I saw Siegfried's ending and went "Okay, so he became...A Darknut."
To me, Siegfried turned into a bootleg Void Termina in his ending.
Guess he went on to trade Link in TP
Either Voldo wanted power, or he was trying to scratch an itch under his mask.
No lie. If I grew up with Soul Edge, I would have never know that the game had multiple endings.
How the hell would anyone know without the cheat book
You know, I find that a lot of fighting game series actually have very rich lore; ironic since the story is usually the last thing most people play fighting games for.
To me it really depends on the game. Some fighting games have a really terrible lore to it (Mortal Kombat and Tekken come to mind when it comes to weak lore), but others I really like to follow the story to (Guilty Gear and the Soul series are my favorite fighting game lores)
Darkstalkers lore is awesome.
Voldo's input ending is considered to be his bad one, I guess because he broke the weapon Vercci asked for
only in the good ending Cervantes shows remorse for his actions, aside from that never ever in the entire series
Partly since Taki killed him in this game, he's an undead pirate due to Soul Edge from Soulcalibur onwards. He's... not exactly himself at that point.
Sophitia: OH! SOMEONE'S STALKING ME! .......That's good.
Sophitia: OH NO! BIRDS ARE SURROUNDING ME AND TWEETING AT ME AND I LOVE IT! THIS IS BAD!
But it comes with a free frogurt!
... the whole asia speaks japanese and the rest english ... good to know ._.
That's the only time this series does something like this btw
Very nice video. This game is amazing. And Li Long's bad ending is canon too because he really dies and no longer appears in other games. Maxi replaces him as the nunchaku-wielder.
I find it really messed up that in Soul Calibur 4, you can perform Critical-Edges, and its not really said what happens in these brutal-overkill moves, other than the "DEATH ON THE BATTLEFIELD" achievement for performing 100. But, I hate the idea that you could possibly be killing Rock, and he has a child, why would you do this!?
Kinda like how you can perform fatalities on Reptile although hes the last of his kind ; - ;
Ryoma Hoshi dat moment when u realize u made a species go extinct
Thug life.
I love this comment because they still come back and the Critical Finishes were just made to introduce something new and look all flashy for the then new gen of consoles.
Additionally, big respect for, in a time of rubber-faced chaps in front of green screens going HEY WHAT'S UP RUclips, sticking to a great gimmick-free text-based style. Very relaxing to watch. Been just trawling through your CBE videos while waiting for (and then drinking) my beer club delivery.
Voldo's good ending: Soul Edge gives him a pearl necklace
Son of Tiamat I haven't seen it yet and I'm not sure I do at this point lol.
In bad English, Soul Edge apparently is pronounced "Sollidge."
Gamer Rob Note that this is a PS1 game (not the most perfect time for voice acting) and it takes place in the 1600's. English was much different then.
Klaty Note that I was joking, and am actually quite interested in playing this because my brother is a huge Soul Caliber fan.
Gamer Rob Of course I knew you were joking, and you never claimed you were against it (apart from "bad English").
Also, it sounds very similiar. It's just missing the u.
my guess for the good ending for voldo was"he brought the weapon back to his masters tomb his master also been odd ordered voldo to feel the blade, and ended up breaking it with the intense rubbing" so more or less a comically good ending.
I never knew Voldo could break the Soul Edge. I just thought he could just rub it on his face forever.
I never knew there was an alternate ending to all these characters.....
Funny thing is, out of all the male characters, Voldo has the best outcomes. In either version, he lives with his physical health intact and remains in Vercci's treasure. Even with Soul Edge destroyed in his bad ending, things turn out well for him. Everybody else either goes insane, dies or just lose hope even in good endings (lookin' at you Siegfried).
Cervantes as per his Edge Master Mode ending becomes the owner of Soul Edge rather than following the will of the sword after defeating it in battle (he doesn't have a Cervantes boss fight because well, he's Cervantes and the one he beats at the start is an imposter Cervantes and instead runs a gauntlet against 6 characters prior to facing Soul Edge). So it's technically a good ending for him because he's a pirate. His self-sacrifice is probably more of a redemption ending though part of him regaining himself and realizing what he had become following the will of Soul Edge is integrated into the Edge Master Mode story.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Sadly, it's non-canon. But it did show there is some good in him. And I think he has a potentially good ending in Soulcalibur III. Either way, it's a Pirate's Life for him.
Git, I just want to say that i love your videos
I have been watching your videos for years and i'll always respect you man :)
I had hard day... I'm tired and not too happy...
"Whoisthisgit uploaded new video"
You made my day!
Actually, Soul Blade/Edge's canon ending is somewhat of a combination of Sophitia,Taki and Siegfried's endings.
First Sophitia fought Cervantes and broke one of the Soul Edges which caused Cervantes to go berserk and nearly kill her.
Then Taki arrives to save Sophitia and fights Cervantes and kills him before rushing to take Sophitia home to get her injuries treated.
Siegfried stumbles upon Cervantes' corpse and tries to take the remaining Soul Edge which possesses Cervantes' corpse Siegfried consumed by madness at this point attacks in a frenzy and defeats Inferno in the process breaking his sword.
He then claims Soul Edge which speaks to him and ultimately strikes a bargain with him to resurrect his father in exchange for Siegfried feeding it souls.
And over the course of the next three years Siegfried slowly becomes Nightmare.
lmao, all this time I believed I was able to get all the endings and now I realized the only good ending I got was Mitsurugi's XD
Forgot Soul Edge(the character)'s ending where a scuba diver finds Soul Edge underwater.
waywtc123 I only vaguely remember it now, but never mind, the ending can't be changed like the others can.
whoisthisgit Well that makes sense. Thanks for replying to my comment by the way.
It's still a creepy ending.
whoisthisgit, It doesn't matter tho
9:45 13:41 20:56 39:05 (Rock, Taki, Mitsurugi, and Cervantes)
I love how most that hold Soul Edge end up holding it backwards (the 3 prongs are forward, and to the left and right)
4:26 24:36 32:39 At least Hwang, Siegfried, and Li-Long care enough to hold the damn thing like you're supposed to (alright I'm done)
Soul edge in Voldos good ending: "I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!" -self destructs-
TOO MUCH LOVE
I've always loved Cervantes good ending music, I used to play it on my old piano. I too could never get into soul caliber, soul blade is always better than it's counterparts for me.
Thank you for this. All these years, and I always wondered about the endings. I never had the extra quarters to keep trying to figure out where I was going wrong.
My mans (20:41) wants to find the most evil weapon in history to block a glock.
The english VActing threw me off compleyely...
WOW. I used to play this game all the time back in the day and must have beaten it over 100 times. Never had any clue there were any "good" endings until today.
WTF, both Li Long and Taki have pro wrestling moves for throws?
at 22:10 "tis just a flesh wound
21:06
Well, I mean... technically Sophitia did too. Then again, she was tasked to destroy it and Mitsurugi didn't know what she knew, so it's definitely more impressive with him then it is with her.
Well, Voldo might just have some kind of crazy fetish towards blades and weapons. *Maybe*.
Thank God they wised up and told you what buttons to press when they brought back the multiple endings for soulcalibur 3
Do Soul Calibur 3 next, it also has good and bad endings. And some of the bad endings like Hwang's was terrifying. So much for a PS1 game. Anyways, please do Soul Calibur 3.
Hwang doesn't have an ending in SCIII, he's just a bonus character who can't be used in Tales of Souls. But I agree, some endings are terrifying... Tira's good ending is very tragic. But also canon, sadly.
holly shit soul edge. this thing is old, and also bring back memories
Man I remember playing this as a kid. I would just desperately mash all the buttons during the ending since I didn't know how to get anyones good ending except Mitsurugi. It always worked too. Good times...
I like the effort they put into these endings. Some pretty great graphics for a PS1 game also!
What the... I've played this game a million times, beat the arcade a million times, and I had no idea of this.
Great video as always.
Those graphics and dubs tho. Holy kilobyte.
And Edgemaster was a very cool mode. Having different weapons with different effects was very cool. And the music theme fo that mode is epic.
Holy crap this totally happened to me as a kid when I beat it with Siegfried and I had no idea there were good endings in the game till Soul Calibur 3 came out and had these kinds of endings again, then I learned about Soul Edge having alternate endings, but I thought it was only for Mitsurugi. WILD
Oh, how I loved this game when I had my ps1, it was a really difficult game back in the day, at least for me. I remember the edgemaster mode, there were some difficult challenges (for example, killing your opponent just by hitting him in the air), and when I reached a certain point on this mode, the game ALWAYS freezed out, kinda strange. Anyway, really good video dude, as always.
You really should try out the other Soul Calibur games. It's a shame Soul Calibur III hasn't been re-released yet. (I kind of wonder if Li Long's bad ending is canon, since he doesn't appear in any other game besides as a bonus character in III..) Also, Soul Edge/Inferno has an ending too, but it's very short and isn't interactive. All that happens is that after defeating everyone, the swords throw themselves into the ocean for..some reason? and is discovered years later in modern times by a diver. That's it.
those are some dumb looking ghosts
Mitsurugi's outfit and blue hair in this game make him look like Takamaru.
He reminds me more of Haohmaru from Samurai Showdown.
Mina sounda about 10 years younger than she looks.
shaun03a Try telling that to the weaboos.
She was 16 years old in this game.
She was 16 but she sounds like 12.
Do you even anime my dude
To be fair, her voice actress is also known for playing Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) and both Videl and Pan in the Dragon Ball Franchise, so she's mostly used to playing characters that young. Plus Mina does act like a pre-teen girl.
I can imagine being confused not knowing about the endings. I would definitely know something was up with the amount of depressing endings, but I have no idea how people were supposed to figure this shit out.
Great video by the way
Damn, I still have the PS1 version of this game somewhere. I remember getting all the good endings back in the day since I had one of those cheat books from a magazine that told you what to do. Though only ending that stuck in my mind was Sophita's good ending. Hey, I was young and it was the days before the internet!
Ten videos away from 1,000! Pretty impressive, I must say.
Man I used to play this game for years but it seems that 40 minutes where enough for me to learn stuff my young self playing this game could never even imagine!
I have played the arcade version of this game it was REALLY fun and I don't know if it counts be but I ALWAYS got a good-ish ending like I beat it as rock and it says he retired had a kid and a overall good ending no forbodeing things or whatever just good stuff
it's also worth noting you can't make choices in the arcade version
but you get a good-ish ending anyways
or it was because I keep spamming all the buttons
And the music in the arcade version is so goddamn good
it's also ALSO worth noting there is no cutscenes at all you get a picture and some text
Sophitia’s endings are not good and bad endings, but nice and naughty endings.....for the player.
Wait...so that god in the sky in Sophitia's ending, doesn't that sound a lot like Alucard from Symphony of the Night?
23:07 Y'know what else is sad for Mitsurugi? His bad ending in Soul Blade is *canon.* (Though he _does_ manage to survive, heal from his bullet-wound, and go on to defeat Tanegashima in a rematch in SC1's events.)
And, from what I just read out of curiosity, Li Long canonically *loses* against Cervantes (he was the first to challenge him before Sophitia, Taki, & later Siegfried). He apparently dies from his wounds... :'(
Li Long actually was just severely wounded. SC3 confirms he's still alive.
So Sophitia's "good ending" has her bathing and with the fog covering her, it almost seems like she's naked.
I guess you could call this "Kinda-nudity".
The Holy Roman Empire later became Germany, so the Germans won't praise Siegfried for fighting against them.
Awesome another CBE video. I do not care if it is long or short.
SOUL EDGE IS LUB LUB
I love the bad ending for Siegfried, you get to see what would become Nightmare.
Wow I had played Soul Edge (Soul Blade) back in the late 90's... with the recent Voldo trailer released for SC 6 I decided to play Soul Blade again but this time I wanted to complete Edge Master Mode and get everyone's weapons...
BTW maybe the reason your Edge Master Mode is crashing is you press Start before fighting in the BOOK menu... go to the menu and select BATTLE and it never crashes...(you may already know by know considering this video was uploaded years ago)
anyway I started with Hwang and got his weapons and tried his ultimate in arcade mode... I was surprised because the Edge Master Mode had Hwang's good ending but the arcade mode had his bad ending...
because Sigfried in both Edge Master and Arcade mode had the same ending (bad) and that's when I found out that the arcade mode had multiple endings... and thank you since I got to see all the endings without the hassle of pressing buttons lol...
Honestly, if I'd see lightning strike into a corpse, making it alive again I would destroy the sword it used against me
Siegfried was totally insane
Heh, who'd knew a sword with evil power would explode because of someone's incessant rubbing.
It looks like Rock throws himself into the sea to "see his parents again."
Oh the nostalgia. Loved this game. Saw all.these endings. Happy times😀
I notice your 1000th video is coming up. You should do something really special to celebrate this!
EdgeMaster mode actually shows the canonical ending for each character. So depending on which character you pick, you get either the good or the bad ending. Hwang and Mitsurugi, for example get their good endings while Siegfried and Cervantes get the bad ending. =D
if i didn't already say it, thanks for the uploads and yes edge master mode is so difficult.
Thanks for sharing this. The first game in the Soul series doesn't get much attention, and I like all the funny comments you put in :) I'm sure that rifle guy just had a flesh wound, right?
Actually this game used to give me nightmares when i was little. Even though I was obsessed with it...
I tried to cheer myself up with the cardboard cutout dojo, but the scenes are still pretty sad.
Father: I don't know where you have been but now recognized the skill you have learned.
Seung Misa: What?
Father: You are now an adult.
Sophitia's canon ending is much darker. She only destroyed one of the swords and when it shattered, one of its shards ended up getting stuck in her heart. She later had to pull it out to spare her kids from being subject to Soul Edge's influence, but died as a result.
It´s interesting that any of the woman were manipulated by the weapon SoulEdge. And one curiosity: one day I played this game with Voldo and his life bar has finished at the same time of the oponent. Result: The game says that you win the round!
Good video, although you forgot Soul Edge's ending.
Yes, "he" only has one ending and no alternative endings, but "his" ending could qualify as a Bad Ending.
Yeah. For the diver.
5 minutes ago, I wondered why you haven't posted, an now a new CBE!
Explaining Voldo's ending....Even evil swords don't want to be sexually molested like that, that it chose to explode instead.
You know who Mitsurugi reminds me of? Mitsunari Ishida from Samurai Warriors.
Even the music with his ending sounds like Samurai Warriors music.
16:44 Most riveting voice acting EVER.
hey git! What about making a creepy bad ending for mortal kombat(any of them)? There are a lot of creepy bad endings the ending of nightwolf on MK9 for a recent example.
That theme is insanely good.
Never apologise for long videos, I love 'em. My fave vid/s of yours are the Breath of Fire II ones.
The fact that i have been playing this for years, and i knew nothing about multiple endings for Soul Blade...