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The Soul still burns. It’s a known fact now — with the recent announcement of Soul Calibur VI, heralded by series’ mainstays, Sophitia and Mitsurugi. Since the SoulCalibur games traditionally featured quite a bit of lore and single-player content, why not stay a while and listen?

Mitsurugi desires to honor his family name by becoming the most famous swordsman, and shortly after his own personal tragedy he begins practicing the art, showing a great aptitude for it. Soon enough, he makes it his goal to search for the strongest, most worthy opponents on the planet in order to measure his worth against them. Rifles came around, and Mitsurugi also wanted to prove his sword would defeat them — but he failed. Leaving Japan, he began pursuing Nightmare, hearing about a legendary sword of immense power.

Check out the footage below, and share your impressions in the comments; is Mitsurugi one of your favorite (or most hated!) characters in the series? The channel also recently posted about SoulCalibur’s Nightmare.

Source: History Behind The Warrior

Pokkén Tournament DX has a number of status effects that players can apply to themselves or their opponent, true to the RPG roots of the Pokémon series. While many of these simply alter damage totals or meter gain, the speed buff’s changes are a lot more consequential to Pokkén’s neutral.

Most commonly applied by using the Togekiss support, Pokkén’s speed buff not only increases movement speed, but forward dash length. Because of this, characters with dash cancels can get new conversions in places they couldn’t without the speed buff. Coincidentally, this also means that speed debuffs will potentially hurt their dash-cancel combos.

Source: 21 Hits

While Avoiding the Puddle’s Aris Bakhtanians is now known for playing Tekken, he’s also a big fan of the Soulcalibur series, being a major tournament threat during the days of SoulCalibur II. As such, with the announcement of SoulCalibur 6, he’s taken the time to go over the footage of the game that we’ve seen from the PlayStation Experience.

In the video below, Aris goes over said footage from PSX, doing his best to break down what we’re seeing. The breakdown is pretty comprehensive, and Aris also throws in some historical context, bringing ups concepts and issues from games past. Along the way, he points out both areas where we can be hopeful, as well as some things that may cause some concern.

Source: Avoiding the Puddle

Square Enix has just dropped a bunch of new character trailers for Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. These videos focus on the heroes from some of the earlier installments of the storied franchise.

Below, you’ll find character trailers for Final Fantasy‘s Warrior of Light, Final Fantasy II‘s Firion (Frioniel in Japan), Final Fantasy III‘s Onion Knight, and Final Fantasy IV‘s Cecil Harvey. Each trailer shows a short glimpse from their story modes, as before showing off some of each characters’ gameplay.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT hits PlayStation 4 in Japan on January 11, followed by North American and Europe on January 30.

Source: Square Enix

If there’s any group of players who’re very familiar with Omen of Sorrow, it has to be the Elite Tournament Chile players. These players have had multiple chances to try out the game thanks to AOne Games giving them some hands-on time with it.

One of their players, McFly, has taken the demo build of the game that was playable last weekend to show off some of the combos that were possible in it. Most of the combos in the video below were performed during a recent stream by McFly and include some commentary (for those who can understand Spanish). For the rest of us, well, the combos themselves are already impressive on their own.

Source: ETC

“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2017” is  the regularly occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade, featuring a revolving selection of arcade titles for its patrons to compete in. A number of games have already been played for this tournament season, which you can check out here.

Today’s entry is the Technōs Japan-developed Double Dragon fighting game from 1995, whose rights are now owned by none other then Arc System Works.

This isn’t the first time Double Dragon — the surprisingly competent 2D fighter based off of the classic 87′ beat-em-up — has been featured at Mikado Arcade this season, though it is the first time it has shown up in this 2v2 team format. This double-jump and air-block heavy Technos fighter has a lot of interesting ideas, such as the instant-stun command grab from drunken master Cheng Fu, and its hybrid “Life Bar-Super Meter” system.

You can preview this seasons’ games and player scores with Mikado’s public Drive document. You can also follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel, or try to catch the action in real time when they livestream.

Source: Mikado

In Tekken 7, if you get stuck in a back-turned state, it’s not the easiest task to safely turn around. Using a directional input to turn-then-block puts you in a turn-around animation that leaves you briefly vulnerable, and attacking from back-turned could open you up to counter hit. Because of this mechanic, it’s possibile to end up in situations where you get comboed by strings that normally wouldn’t.

But back-turned throws, which are universally available to the cast, do not count as counter-hit states if you use them to turn around. You might take another hit as you turn around, but as demonstrated by Aris at Avoiding the Puddle, it may save you a good chunk of your life bar.

Source: Avoiding the Puddle

The Atom has arrived in Injustice 2, and it looks like players have already made breakthroughs in the lab with this size-shifting superhero. Let’s check out the sub-atomic technology NRS players have come up with!

Let’s get things started with some combos (as we often do with new characters). Zynarium, BxA Jackal, KELSOKELSO25, and ahmz1404 all have great beginner and advanced combos, many leading into the important BF2 ender or Trait setups.

MK_REO already has some disgusting mix-ups for us in the form of a great Trait and chemical breakdown, and restand 50/50s.

Lastly, Propz101 has a disgusting corner setup for the Atom’s health-draining chemicals.

Sources: Zynarium; BxA Jackal; KELSOKELSO25; ahmz1404; MK_REO; Propz101