Saint Seiya Soldier's Soul is a quaint fighting game that has its small playability value robbed by a unique fatal flaw in the restart option that drags the action and frustrates the player. While the game has some interesting features, it mostly just drags through monotonous gameplay and a confusing story. Too many features are hard to understand,...
Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul2015
Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul
2015 Bandai Namco Entertainment69Worthwhile
Playtime
ModerateTypically 20 hours
Playable on
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- September 25, 2015
- Developer
- Dimps
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
The 12 Gold Saints are coming back to burn their cosmos with outstanding graphics, solid gameplay, characters from the whole series… and so much more to discover!
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Reception
Press58
Players90
MediocreExcellent- Metacritic59from 30 reviews
- OpenCritic57from 16 reviews
Fans of the series will probably get a kick out of the use of the source material but it's hard to recommend this game to anyone but said fans of the source material. For everyone else, it's repetitive and probably isn't at the level of depth that most fighting games offer these days.
Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul is a title that fans of the franchise will enjoy a lot, but unless this is a series you know, or one that you have have been thinking of checking out, you may just be better reading the serializations instead.
In the end, Saint Seiya: Soldier's Soul is really for the fans of the series. Fighting game players may get some out of it, but only if these arena-based games are your forte. I know a lot of people love them, and I have seen many great fights that take a lot of skill to pull off. There is some strategy involved. There are tons to unlock and a decent...
Saint Seiya: Soldier's Soul would perhaps call out more to existing fans of the Seiya anime, but as a newcomer, I was less than impressed.