Well, it's not 100% certain, but I will say that on more than one occasion I've had exactly the symptoms you describe (some buttons working, some not, sometimes relieved partially by exiting a match or game, sometimes not), and I jiggled every button on the control, to the point where I was satisfied it was not the cause of the input lockdown. I then moved on to trouble-shooting every possible software/hardware issue I could find for that particular console and/or game. And only after eliminating all other possibilities did I come back to the controller to do a deep clean and discover that, yes indeed, something was sticking intermitently (but non-obviously) and this was cancelling some (but not all) other inputs. So I've learned to treat that as the default assumption with that particular issue. It's not the only possible explanation, but in my experience (especially with the most recent generation of hardware) it's the most likely one, even if it doesn't seem to be so at first.
Stab people with arrows when up close, and have several keep away type moves to regain distance.
Could be like Viola from Eternal Sonata, using punches and kicks up close, with knockback, then firing arrows to follow-up.
I think its still a terrible idea. I mean, one has to suspend disbelief for all Soulcalibur movesets, but that would be truly awkward/unbelievable looking. Some guests have featured bows/crossbows mixed into their repertoire and that's all well and good. But a full-on bow-melee fighter? Goofy in the extreme.
No, those are terrible costumes from SoulCalibur: Lost Swords.
Kamikirimusi
Was gonna say Ashlotte, but also a fine choice.
I felt it was more "SoulCalibur was already perfect. How do we make it better?".
There's no reason why Hwang and Li Long shouldn't have made it to SoulCalibur IV, when Amy did. If they had brought all three of them, it would be practically a perfect roster. But SoulCalibur IV has clunky gameplay... that's its biggest flaw. That and the terrible online netcode.
