“The long awaited return of Saint Seiya is here with Saint Seiya Soldiers’ Soul! This amazing game will feature characters from the whole series, including the 12 Gold Saints and their God Cloths from the newly released anime “Soul of Gold”. Here’s the blurb from the game’s Steam page:
This time round, players can look forward to a reworked fighting system, new game modes, and, for the first time, can explore the Asgard Arc – a famous series story line. Although not what I was after, I loved it! Why is this self-indulgent rabble important? Saint Seiya is accessible to noobs, like my idiot self a decade ago.
I picked up Saint Seiya: The Sanctuary in a mortifying display of book-cover-judging skulduggery and instead got a cut-scene-heavy larger than life action-cum-fighting game. In mid-2005, I’d not long finished Suikoden IV on the PlayStation 2 and was after another meaty JRPG to sink my teeth into. My introduction to the Saint Seiya series came courtesy of my own ignorance ten years ago.
