This was on my mind recently and I wonder, regardless of alinement, all characters had a form of soul edge (complete) in thier arsonal (to my memory) which was powerful but took health bit by bit. Did anyone like that? I found it interesting seeing Talim and Link with it. Rather then in the new games random characters got it, which was not very many. I guess it surved as a "What-if" achievement for them all but would that go against the story direction and the importance of those who rightfully have it? Should everyone at least get a lesser form of it at the least if they aren't meant to take it further? Like in SC3 there was (cacoon/Larva) etc.
I think that they should give each character both SE and SC to have a taste of what each side would be like.
I think every character should get both a gain to at least add some sort of subplot to the other characters besides sigfried and patrolklos. I mean most characters had nothing to do with themselves in SC4 and if the Sword was broken into fragments then why does it only affect one person directly? Pyrha got the signature arm mutation but what else? I was actually interested to see Yun-sung turn evil to save his country in SC4 but then again because he isnt sigfried he doesnt deserve it?
Story wise it would make no sense for everybody to have one of both, but from a CAS point of view it would be great. After all, no reason story wise Pat gets to stab people with a fish but he has one.
I wish there were a lot of varied cultural weapons. SE and SC would be nice too. I was a bit annoyed that the Kris Naga, Assassin's Dagger, and Fu-Ma Kugi wasn't included in SCV
The only people that should wield Soul Edge are Cervantes, Nightmare, Raphael, Tira, Pyrrha, and to some extent, Ivy, Zasalamel, and Algol.
Though there are some characters who just wouldn't suit Soul Edge. Viola having a Soul Edge orb would just be messed up, and GenericRoboMoonWolf EIN is already ugly enough - he doesn't need to become malfested.
For the sake of CaS, everyone should have a Soul Edge, Calibur and ALL iterations of their weapons from past games. :p I hate making Nightmares in CaS this time around for this reason...