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Animated Blood: GamerDad says that if there is any blood in this game, it was very hard to notice. Mild Language: Very light cursing, maybe a damn or hell or two, is used sparingly in the text.. Suggestive Themes: The female characters in this game wear revealing clothes and/or have ridiculous proportions. Violence: Players slash up enemies with blades and swords, but there are no grisly deaths or bloody gore. Namco's popular weapons-based one-on-one 3-D fighter, Soul Calibur, is now an action-adventure game on the Wii. Play as some of your favorite fighters like Siegfried, Taki, Ivy, and others as you travel harsh wildernesses and ancient temples to collect shards from the evil blade Soul Edge, battling droves of enemies along the way. Think of Soul Calibur Legends as a classic sidescrolling beat 'em up, all done in 3-D. But instead of pushing buttons to swing your sword, players literally get into the action by swinging around the Wii remote and nunchuck to defeat bad guys. Swing the Wii remote horizontally or vertically to perform slashes, or thrust the remote towards the screen for quick stabs. Move around your fighter with the control stick on the nunchuck controller, and do quick dashes by quickly moving the whole nunchuck in the direction you want to go. Play control in this fashion is mostly responsive, but quicker characters like Taki or Sophitia are better at mimicking your slashing movements as opposed to slower fighters like Siegfried or Asteroth. Also, sometimes your character won't dash in the same direction as your nunchuck movements, but this doesn't affect the gameplay quite as much. Solo players can quest through the game's Story Mode, or another player with a separate nunchuck and remote and join in for two player action in Legend's Party Mode. This mode has a few select stages from the Story Mode that you can play together with a split screen co-operatively or competitively. Or you can battle each other one-on-one in a VERY simplified version of the main Soul Calibur games. Audio and visuals aren't quite up to snuff to past games in the main Soul Calibur series, and the same could be said about the general production values of Legends as well. Plus the game can get a little repetitive at times. But fans of the Soul Calibur series should still like the Wii Legends game, as long as they realize that it's not going to be as mind blowing as the main titles.  
While Soul Calibur Legends is all about fighting and there is violence, there are no grisly death scenes, no limbs being chopped off, and no endless sprays of blood. Defeated enemies just go "argh" and fall to the ground and disappear. Some of the female characters are ridiculously proportioned and/or wear skimpy outfits, too. Because of the violence and suggestive themes, Soul Calibur Legends is best for teen gamers, or at the earliest, mature preteens.
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