Soul Calibur: Souls of Shadows

Soul Calibur: Souls of Shadows (ソウルキャリバー ソウル・オブ・シャドウ) is an adventure game. It is a spin-off of the Soul series created by Bandai Namco, featuring one of it's most popular character, Taki.

Story
The story of Soul Calibur: Souls of Shadows takes places between Soul Calibur III and Soul Calibur IV. As Taki tracks down her former master, Toki, who was driven to insanity by the evil with him being transformed into a demon and absorbing the power of Gel-o-Fury. She eventually tracks him down in the Buddha Sanctum, with the battle ending with Taki defeating him. After his last words, Gel-o-Fury left his vessel's body and fled to the west under the influence of Soul Edge.

Taki heads towards the location of the cursed shards of Soul Edge to destroy them, and put an end to the foul demon, Gel-o-Fury and seal him away for good.

Gameplay
The gameplay is reminisent of that of Soul Calibur: Legends, though this time the controls have been modified to fit with the standard controllers players are familiar with. The Horizontal, Vertical, Kick and Guard buttons are all in the A-D buttons. Throws are also avaliable if the input from the A-D buttons are performed. The game also introduces stealth and acrobatic skills that can be performed with the back buttons. Soul Charge is also an added mechanic to the game. Their is a meter of the gauge you filled as you perform an attack, a full meter will activate a Soul Charge. Similar to Soul Calibur VI, it acts as an amplifier to your techniques.

The game has hack n' slash elements that bear resemblance to other similar games. With the addition of stealth kills and Soul Charge special attacks.

Characters

 * Taki (Playable Character; Protagonist)
 * Mitsurugi
 * Setsuka
 * Yoshimitsu
 * Maki (Boss character)
 * Geki (Boss character)
 * Gaki and Doki (Boss character)
 * Toki (Boss character)
 * Gel-o-Fury (Final Boss character)
 * Hachibel
 * Chie
 * Li Long

Enemies

 * Assassin
 * Fu-Ma Ninja
 * Demon
 * Berserker
 * Samurai
 * KaraKuri Puppet
 * Oni
 * Evil Soul

Locations

 * Hoko Temple
 * Bamboo Shrine of the Ōmi Province
 * Buddha Sanctum