Current Events > All it would take for Soul Calibur 7 to sell is BotW Link and FE Lucina

(+) Yeah! (+)

... Or whatever FE character is popular these days

Imagine Soul Calibur 2/3 level content ala Weapon Master and Chronicles of the Sword with a Hyrule and FE Planet crossover

Imagine putting Taki in Sheikah Ninja Garb

Imagine Create a Soul with all your favorite FE character armor

Imagine your weapon breaking mid fight on the final round

Easy Millions Namco

Put in Tom Nook

The problem is, Nintendo would never let that stuff from their IP be included in the non-Nintendo versions of the game. Either Bandai Namco would need to find decent exclusive content for the other versions of Soul Calibur 7 to make up for the lack of the Nintendo stuff (like they did with Spawn and Heihachi in Soul Calibur 2) or they would have to make the game exclusive to Nintendo's system, which I doubt they would do.

A better idea would be to not even bother with the Soul Calibur name and just make a full-on Nintendo x Bandai Namco crossover game, featuring weapon-based fighters from a bunch of franchises on both sides. The Nintendo side could have characters from Zelda, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Kid Icarus, even some oddball picks like Meta Knight from Kirby and a few Pokemon like Scyther and Sirfetch'd. The Namco side could have characters from Soul Calibur, the Tales series, the Souls franchise, Elden Ring, Baten Kaitos, Scarlet Nexus, even some anime characters whose tie-in games Bandai Namco develops or publishes like Trunks from DBZ and Kirito from SAO.

That game would sell like hotcakes despite being Nintendo-exclusive, and then they could use that money to make Soul Calibur 7 better later on.

I want to see Cloud be a guest character for SoulCalibur VII. He was supposed to be the guest for the PS2 version of SC2, but the deal fell through at the last minute and, since that time, there has not been a FF guest character. He'd fit the universe really well and be a lot of fun to play as. Noctis would have been my ideal FF pick for a SC slot, but his game is yesterday's news and not relevant anymore, so Cloud makes more sense.

Clive would fit in well enough as well I suppose. I just hope we get Soul cal 7 period since I heard the guy in charge of it left Namco...but, hopefully another one will come out, one that hopefully will be mod friendly.

Necronmon posted...

I just hope we get Soul cal 7 period

Same. I tried out a few other fighting games in the gap between when SC5 bombed and when SC6 finally got announced (because I was scared the franchise was dead) and none of them were as enjoyable for me as SC was. I really don't want the franchise to just die out.

Paul Atreides with Arrakis level

Fighting games take too long to release nowadays. They used to be annual or biannual releases.

Tc said Lucina lol

All I want is Lizard Man back and the story mode and labyrinth from 2 and 3.

Calwings posted...

The problem is, Nintendo would never let that stuff from their IP be included in the non-Nintendo versions of the game.

You DO know Link was in SC2, right?

I assume TC is talking if they did console-exclusive guest characters like they did for SC2.

SC7 looks very unlikely to happen, especially when the main director left Bandai Namco (Okubo was the primary reason SC6 was even made) and support for SC6 fell really short because its playerbase fell dramatically (bad netcode played a really big role in this, especially during COVID). If they do resurrect the series, they might have to pull a "Soul Edge" type of revival.