Saturday, December 9, 2017

Soul Calibur VI: Barefoot Sophitia is BACK!


Sophitia jumps back into the fight feet first...

Soul Calibur VI just got revealed recently, and this early we got nice foot-age of the lovely Sophitia Alexandra fighting bare-legged and barefooted in-game. Armor breaks are back, and thankfully its Sophie who demonstrates this feature, getting her armored leggings shattered off to reveal her silky long legs and feet (as opposed to us seeing Mitsurugi's silky legs and feet...). There's quite a bit of barefoot Sophie in the 10-minute or so clip, so enjoy it, even if the subtitles do get in the way occasionally.

My only gripes of course is that, well, SC's character models have never had good, detailed foot models. The shape is off, sometimes a bit to narrow or small, the toes are edged and polygonal, and there are no skin textures to speak of. With Tekken 7 having the best-looking bare feet, toes and soles I've seen in gaming yet, hopefully Soul Calibur will follow suit. They are using Unreal Engine 4 as well after all.

No word either on if Character Creation will return, but I'm sure that the devs would be insane to take off such a mega-popular feature. It is awesome at least we get to see barefoot babes in this just-announced game so early. AND its coming to PC as well.

The game is set for release sometime in 2018. Here's to it coming sooner, rather than later. For now, enjoy the video!