Man, Inferno may be evil personified, but at least it didn’t try to seduce Siegfried by turning into his dad in a speedo. It appeared in the form of a scantily-clad Sophitia in order to manipulate Sophitia’s son, Patroklos. The concept of Inferno did translate well in SoulCalibur V where they showed that the Soul Calibur sword has its own counterpart in Elysium. Then Bandai Namco started having Inferno adopt random movesets, but there are like a dozen characters like that in SoulCalibur. Inferno never really had a personality of its own. The flame body was neat, but he was just Nightmare with a weaker design. The development of Siegfried wielding the Soul Edge and being transformed into Nightmare was a wonderful twist and selling point for the sequel’s storyline, but it made Inferno look a little redundant. So after taking down Cervantes, the swords came to life to fight you as a more powerful version of Cervantes with a flaming skull head. As shown at the end of that fantastic CGI intro that still holds up to this day, the swords were really running the show. Cervantes was an evil dude, but he was still just a pawn. SOUL EDGE/INFERNOĪs far as I’m concerned, the Inferno concept peaked in the first game. As one of the final bosses in Deadly Alliance, it just didn’t feel the same. It’s just too bad that once games were on discs and had loading times, Shang’s tendency to morph mid-match took a powder. While lesser on the totem pole in later games, Shang Tsung regaining his youth made for a good trade.
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Then Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played the HELL out of him in the movie and his legendary status was solidified. Even though he was turning into other playable characters, the insinuation was that you were more or less fighting all the dead warriors from the years that he had absorbed into his being. A shape-shifter was a fantastic gimmick for a final boss, especially since it jibed with his tendency to eat souls. Surely, that at least had to mean that Shang Tsung was a special kind of threat in his own way. Mortal Kombat’s attract mode sold the game by going, “Yo, check out this huge claymation beast with his four arms and topknot! He will break you in half if you even blink!” But this unstoppable monster was actually second to some floating geezer. I do really get a kick out of how one of his King of Fighters intros has him throw a non-descript martial artist to the ground before jumping into the fight, like it’s his regular thing to kick some schmuck’s ass and take their spot in a tournament. Just brutal karate with his flashiest move being a flipping legdrop. No fireballs or energy explosions or anything like that. Silber also appeared as a hidden mid-boss in King of Fighters XI, but his fighting style lacks anything really bombastic. At the end of the game’s big MMA tournament, when the player is ready to face his fellow finalist, your opponents’s busted carcass is instead knocked through the entranceway like a punted football. Coming from the lesser-known fighter Buriki One, Silber is a Victor Creed-looking urban legend who is obsessed with increasing his power and challenging worthy opponents. SNK shamelessly ripped off Akuma, but at least the studio did it with style. It took two more games for him to finally get his head on straight. Jin, suffering from his own possession problems, went and took over the Mishima Zaibatsu and started a world war as part of an elaborate plan to commit suicide by putting a giant target on his back. The tragedy is that, in the end, he was killed by his great-grandson Jin, but Jin came out of it learning the wrong lesson. His ending cutscene even has him cry blood over this because he’s that hardcore. In Tekken 5, he takes over the Mishima Zaibatsu and sets up a new King of the Iron Fist tournament ASAP just so somebody strong might be able to kill him before he completely loses control and wipes out all life on the planet. That doesn’t make for a good boss design. And he’s possessed by a demon because why the hell not.īut really, the reason he’s possessed is because otherwise he’s the one member of the bloodline who isn’t a jerk. Jin, they decided to go further and bring in Heihachi’s dad. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the lore of the series, but after doing a game about Heihachi vs. I think this is the moment when Tekken’s story started going off the rails.
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