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SCV has great customization thanks to the stickers system, extra parts and extended color options, but it streamlined the fuck out of each of the character's styles. Ivy doesn't have stances, Mitsurugi lost Relic stance and most of his tools got killed off, Siegfried's basic five hit combo (Vertical slash x 2 Vert hold into ready stance launch, horizontal) got kablammed, loads of choices like that, might be wrong about Siegfried's combo though?
Point is a lot of characters got simplified to their detriment, some characters got replaced by their kids (Kilik got replaced by his anime cliche big eater dumbass protagonist son, Xianghua got replaced by a really high pitched version of Xianghua)
Soul Calibur 5 wasn't fluid compared to SC4 since in SC4 pretty much every combo had guard pushback that allowed you to continue into other combos if you knew the character which forced the other player to either dodge or wait for an opening and strike.
So in SC4 with a slower character you'd use the heavier guard pushback to create distance to make up for the fact that most of your attacks were unsafe, and in SC5 the guard pushback was heavily decreased, so characters like Nightmare that had their moveset practically ported with a few changes suffered because all of their moves were designed to be bad on block but created distance to make up for it, so without that heavy pushback one fuck up could cost you the match.
So that meant that half the cast was unplayable if you were semi-good at the game, because while they had gimmicks the sheer slowness of these attacks would fuck you, which meant that you had to rely on weak attacks to win, which fucks your range, and other characters like Rapheal beat you out entirely because they had better range, speed and safety on each attack despite having their movesets fucking nerfed.
SC6 pretty much fixed all that from what I can see since the pushback and the speed were redone and better since they were actually given time and money for this one.
SC5 got
FUCKED
on budget and time, and was rushed out the door with pretty much no story mode, and this is notable because Soulcalibur is heavily into lore and story and it's usually one of the best parts of the game too.
Point is, wait for SC6, it has even better customization because of the races and the extra additions to it, since they're also letting you customize voice quotes as well on top of the great character customization they had going in SCV.
SCV was a fucking beta, it's disgraceful what they did to it. God fucking damn do I have a hateboner for whoever fucked up SCV