MJN SEIFER
03-23-2010, 04:54 PM
I personally love it when a game has a storyline, and I love it even more when the game actually pays attention to that storyline.
Fighting games took a little while to catch up - Street Fighter did nothing to hint that it had a storyline outside the manual, and Tekken only hinted towards it until around Tekken 4 (before that, you had to go online to see what the hell the endings meant).
The best ones though from what I played where the "Soul" games - they had endings that fitted the character they where scripted and made sense, Bushido Blade also has endings - but I have no idea which is the "true" one, because I haven't played part 2. (and no - they can't all be true, as I'll explain later.)
If a fighting game has endings for its characters, they can't all happen in the storyline if you want to make a sequal - for example say Character A's ending involves him killing Character B, and in Character B's Ending Character A dies. They can't both be true - infact by the the time the sequal comes out it may even turn out that neither of these endings really happened (so both characters can be in the sequal) and one of the other endings was "The" ending - of course the other endings could be slightly true.
In "Soul Edge" (or "Blade" if your from the UK like me) one ending is "The" ending, and that ending is whichever character gets the sword at the end (you'll understand if you play the game) - all of the other characters have an ending that begins with them finding the sword (what they do with it depends on the character), and then have the rest of their ending. However - in the sequal ("Soul Calibur", actually!) we learn that only one character found the sword - the rest didn't, however some parts of their endings still happened - others got a completly different ending.
In "Busido Blade" each ending begins with the death of the final boss. Now, I don't know if he's dead in storyline, because I haven't got Bushido Blade part 2 (I do know that he's not in it, so he probably is dead.), but if he is - then only one of the characters could have killed him, therefore only one ending is the "true" ending - or the canon one.
Did it puzzle you at first when you realized that not all the endings really happen? Sometimes it gets a bit confusing - one ending in Soul Calibur shows a character dying (how exactly?) - but his death never takes place in canon, because he is never at the place where he dies (got that?) so in SCII - he's still alive.
Fighting games took a little while to catch up - Street Fighter did nothing to hint that it had a storyline outside the manual, and Tekken only hinted towards it until around Tekken 4 (before that, you had to go online to see what the hell the endings meant).
The best ones though from what I played where the "Soul" games - they had endings that fitted the character they where scripted and made sense, Bushido Blade also has endings - but I have no idea which is the "true" one, because I haven't played part 2. (and no - they can't all be true, as I'll explain later.)
If a fighting game has endings for its characters, they can't all happen in the storyline if you want to make a sequal - for example say Character A's ending involves him killing Character B, and in Character B's Ending Character A dies. They can't both be true - infact by the the time the sequal comes out it may even turn out that neither of these endings really happened (so both characters can be in the sequal) and one of the other endings was "The" ending - of course the other endings could be slightly true.
In "Soul Edge" (or "Blade" if your from the UK like me) one ending is "The" ending, and that ending is whichever character gets the sword at the end (you'll understand if you play the game) - all of the other characters have an ending that begins with them finding the sword (what they do with it depends on the character), and then have the rest of their ending. However - in the sequal ("Soul Calibur", actually!) we learn that only one character found the sword - the rest didn't, however some parts of their endings still happened - others got a completly different ending.
In "Busido Blade" each ending begins with the death of the final boss. Now, I don't know if he's dead in storyline, because I haven't got Bushido Blade part 2 (I do know that he's not in it, so he probably is dead.), but if he is - then only one of the characters could have killed him, therefore only one ending is the "true" ending - or the canon one.
Did it puzzle you at first when you realized that not all the endings really happen? Sometimes it gets a bit confusing - one ending in Soul Calibur shows a character dying (how exactly?) - but his death never takes place in canon, because he is never at the place where he dies (got that?) so in SCII - he's still alive.