Soul Calibur IV

First day after I got back from Japan, the 12th of August, I got it, I played it against my brother. awesome graphics, but I was kinda sad. Nightmare is much much weaker. :(
The story mode is short, I liked that, makes it easier to beat the game with all characters, but it was WAY predictable, few lines about story, usually background, five levels, usually outnumbered but easy, final boss is Nighmare, Sieg or Algol, then a very short cutscene, some of them are really crappy. Story wise, the game does not tell much.
Arcade: your normal 8 level 1 vs 1, weapons effects off.
Tower of lost souls: alternative for weapon master, seems short, but some levels are hard, you need customized characters to fight in here. still stuck at the 59th floor, each floor has a condition, if you fulfill it you get a piece of equipment, or gold if you already bought it. Descending is like survival, HP recovery sucks, I think you need to be hit a 3hit combo if you want HP to recover, wtf. HP drain is better, but even Drain A (the best available) doesn't drain as much as it used to be, I reached b40s or something with good defense, hp drain and Astroth, he does really heavy damage, and the AI doesn't seem to guard most of his slow attacks, dunno why.
Online is fucked up, or at least for me, he swings his sword after a whole second after I input it. I'll try to get the honors, then never play it again, unless it is somehow fixed.
Creation isn't bad, better graphics, but kinda sucky in two parts, if you want powerful character you have to give up the looks, and second is the slots for equipments, there used to be more slots in SC3, like top underwear and bottom underwear, now it is merged to one, so many males end up wearing torsos directly above their skin, which looks kinda gay. And other slots like three levels of armor. You can adjust the build and muscularity, cool, I wish I can adjust the height too. And maybe add some scars, their are 6 voices and a lever of pitch, in SC3 there used to be 4 voices and each had two diffrent personallities (good/bad) now it is less. Male faces looks bad and few (facial hair comes with the face) And you have to choose the weapon when creating the character, can't switch it in the character selection scree, speaking about that, the icons are cool, there is still an empty space, I don't like the little card when choosing the custom, its kinda small.

In the end, I like the game, but I expected more.