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SoulCalibur 5 lacked endings outside of its main story mode campaign, so Yoshimitsu was pretty much left to the wayside. Not much became of Yoshimitsu the Second. He survived long enough to find a successor to kill him in battle and take both his sword and name.Д®ven then, the ill-fated Yoshimitsu the First was able to chop off his successorвЂ™s arm before going down for good.

Due to age and lack of character importance in comparison, Yoshimitsu got mortally wounded.

YOSHIMITSU TEKKEN 7 SERIES

SoulCalibur 5 made it apparent that itвЂ™s the former as Yoshimitsu found out about the resurrection of regular series villain Cervantes and decided to nip that problem in the bud. With all these prequel games, it still wasnвЂ™t 100% clear if Yoshimitsu was a legacy concept or an immortal with zany fashion sense. Again, this is in no way reflected in his ending, where he spares the life of the final boss Algol and tells him to get over himself. His SoulCalibur 4 subplot centered around Tira вЂ“ essentially Harley Quinn as Gollum with a hula hoop enthusiasm вЂ“ killing one of YoshimitsuвЂ™s guys. YoshimitsuвЂ™s ending had zero to do with that and instead focused on him stealing more gold. Unfortunately, that mission led to disaster as one of YoshimitsuвЂ™s top soldiers went insane from a shard of the broken sword and betrayed the rest of the clan. Kind of like if Lord of the Rings had a bunch of kooky ninjas and more stuff to destroy than a single ring.

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Fun fact: originally, the PS2 SoulCalibur 2was supposed to have Cloud Strife as the exclusive guest character (going with GameCubeвЂ™s Link and XboxвЂ™s Spawn), but the deal fell through and they plugged Heihachi in there.ДЄs of SoulCalibur 3, his clan had two main focuses: 1) find treasures and spread their wealth to the poor and 2) find and destroy all remaining shards of the Soul Edge. He would return in SoulCalibur 2, alongside another Soul/ Tekkenconnection where Heihachi Mishima would magically travel back in time in the PlayStation 2 version of the game. From there, the Manji Clan was reborn as the Manjitou with Yoshimitsu the First at its helm. He made enough of a name for himself that others sought him out to join his side. From there, he became a heroic bandit who looked out for the poor and the weak. Yoshimitsu decided that he would not allow the katanaвЂ™s evil to overwhelm him and set out to conquer it. Yoshimitsu never did come across the villainous knight, but he got close enough that his own sword became possessed by traces of the Soul EdgeвЂ™s evil, giving it an otherworldly glow. At some point during his adventure, he decided that maybe vengeance wasnвЂ™t the best course of action because he didnвЂ™t want to become a figurative monster like Nobunaga or a literal monster like Nightmare. Since there was news of an azure knight going around killing everything with a bigass eyeball sword, Yoshimitsu followed the bloodshed. It was his bizarre fighting style that felt like a kabuki actor, a samurai, and a disco dancer joined together and got really drunk. It wasnвЂ™t just that he wielded a sword in a hand-to-hand combat tournament. He was to Tekkenwhat Blanka was to Street Fighter, Baraka was to Mortal Kombat, and Gen-An was to Samurai Shodown. Even in a game featuring a robot and a man with a jaguar mask, Yoshimitsu was the token freak. Yoshimitsu was at the ground floor, appearing in 1994вЂ™s Tekken. Arc System Works has a big crossover game that just came out of some of their properties mashed together.ДЇor Bandai-Namco, their staple fighting game series TekkenвЂ“ the modern civil war within the Mishima bloodline вЂ“ and SoulCaliburвЂ“ the ancient war between two mystical swords вЂ“ are bridged together mainly by one name: Yoshimitsu, the Cyborg Robin Hood. NetherRealm canвЂ™t make a game about DC Comics characters without Mortal Kombat dudes showing up. SNKвЂ™s Art of Fighting takes place a few decades before Fatal Fury, several centuries after Last Blade, and about a century before Savage Reign.

CapcomвЂ™s Street Fighter introduces a Japanese schoolgirl and she later shows up when Capcom makes a fighting game about Japanese high schools.

When a video game company makes enough fighting games, usually we start seeing some connections.

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