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r/SoulCalibur•
LeCount

Tira seems to have a real issue.

I suspected this when I saw the trailer, but couldn't confirm until I had some hands-on time with the character - but the whole Jolly and Gloomy stances referring to the other personality as "Jolly" and "Gloomy" is cringey AF.

Fellow Tira players - how do plan on dealing with this issue? Will we go the vanilla Street Fighter 4 soundtrack route and embrace the awfulness to the extent that years later we still pretend its actually good? Or do we do go the old village elder shunning route and just pretend it doesn't exist at all? Is there a viable 3rd option?

Posted Sep 28, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

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I_am_momoTira•

It doesn't feel cringey to me.

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BowtieWilliamsTira•

That’s Tira’s personality. She’s unhinged, it’s the best part about her.

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AzynterrusCassandra•

I'm not a Tira main but I don't like it either, and not just because the names themselves are dopey.

It's debateable whether Tira's two personalities would ever refer to each other as seperate entities before (e.g. she always referred to herself as "I" instead of "we" before afaik), but it's also irrelevant because they didn't exist until the climax of Soulcalibur III. At this point in time she's supposed to be just super bipolar (and I've always preferred her that way but I digress).

It seems they've moved the personality split to when she kills her adoptive family though. I think it's the only hard retcon we've seen this reboot, but I've been avoiding the story mode previews.

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LeCountOPTira•

I think the names are fine. Its the fact that she refers to them directly like she read her own online bio.

The retcon i'm fine with because I am a Tira main, and I love her mood switch mechanic. But I agree its pretty blatant.

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AzynterrusCassandra•

Yeah, I guess I just treated them as descriptors before (jolly side, gloomy side or w/e). I agree that it's only weird that they're saying it out loud like this.

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a-salty-potato-chip•

Is this your first time playing Tira? That's kind of her schtick.

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FiRavenCassandra•

From what I understand from know people with D.I.D. it is actually decently common for the different personalities to each have a name and for them to refer to each other by the names.

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