Talk:Taki (Soulcalibur)/Archive 2

Old bio (that needs to be rewritten)
Taki started as one of the eight original characters from the Arcade game Soul Edge and remained as such in the successive upgrade Soul Edge: Version II and the PlayStation port, gaining slight gameplay upgrades along the way. Her Edge Master Mode in-game story states that, after a hard fight against a demon who haunted a temple, she discovers her beloved weapon, the magical ninjatō she named Rekkimaru, was considerably weakened. Discovering the source to be Soul Edge, Taki decides to travel west to save her treasured sword, and to hunt down Soul Edge as well.

Taki returned as a starter character on Soulcalibur, both on the Arcade and Dreamcast port. Her style went through a substantial change: originally using a single weapon, she is given a second ninjatō to wield, changing her style to dual-wielding. Besides the gameplay upgrades she gained, her story fleshed out considerably as well.

The Prologue of the stage explains how Taki confronted the main villain of Soul Edge, Cervantes, and obtained a fragment of the shattered sword. In the process, she also saved another character, Sophitia, who was the one who shattered the smaller of the Soul Edges. Her in-game profile follows her story as she tries to merge the fragment with her Rekkimaru without success. But when she fused it with her other weapon, Mekkimaru, it shed a powerful evil aura. In order to destroy this new evil weapon, Taki sought to pit it against Soul Edge, hoping both blades would destroy themselves.

However, the official profile released on the official website expanded on the backstory of her new weapon Mekkimaru, and how she obtained it. It starts with the revelation, from her leader Toki, that former Fu-Ma leader Hachibei stole the mysterious sword and escaped. Turned a nukenin (fugitive), she is ordered to kill both him and his daughter Chie, a childhood friend of her, and bring back the blade. With her network intelligence, Taki locates Hachibei quickly, and she is informed about Toki's obsession with the powers of the blade. Hachibei urges her to not let Toki get ahold the Mekkimaru and gives Taki a kodachi (short sword). Taki later gives a false report to Toki, leading his forces in pursuit of Li Long, Chie's lover, under the idea he has Mekkimaru after killing both Hachibei and Chie. However, Taki is eventually found out by Toki's right hand man, a ninja known as Geki. Surviving the encounter, Taki becomes a nukenin herself, being pursued by her former allies as she tries to destroy Mekkimaru.

Taki returns as a starting character in the game's sequel, Soulcalibur II. Mostly unchanged from her last appearance, it marks the first instance in which her primary outfit appears unmasked. Her profile states that, after hearing Soul Edge was destroyed by a group of warriors, she decides to try to tame the evil kodachi instead. Four years after, several Fu-Ma ninja tried to capture her without success. Taki discovers then that they carry Soul Edge fragments, and reaches the realization Toki has many more of them, and was looking for her to gather information. Taki decided to keep both Soul Edge and Mekkimaru from Toki, but became worried of him as well.

Taki appeared in the fourth installment of the saga, Soulcalibur III, with minimal changes in both appearance and playstyle, the most prevalent being her new magic-based attacks. Fittingly, her playstyle becomes available to use in the Create-a-Character feature to characters using the "Ninja" job setting. Her story followed from her last profile, showing Taki decided to travel back to Japan, discovering that the Fu-Ma village was suffering from internal conflicts due to Toki's madness. Taki contacted the rebellious part of the Fu-Ma and discovered Toki's location on the Great Buddha Shrine. Sneaking there, Taki faced her master Toki, who recently absorbed the Oni spirits within the shrine. Taki defeats her master with the techniques he taught her, but then the spirits dwelling within him came out from him and traveled west. Knowing they are going for Soul Edge, and that the sword's presence was weak enough to allow its destruction, Taki starts a new journey to end Soul Edge at once.

--94.246.150.68 (talk) 13:31, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Official bio
--94.246.150.68 (talk) 17:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/tmr/souledge/edgechar.htm
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/tmr/soulcalibur/calichar1.htm
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/tmr/calibur2/ps2/06taki/c06.htm
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/SC3/index.htm (EN)
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/SCL/contents/character/taki.html
 * http://www.soularchive.jp/SC4/character/taki/index.html

Needs another pic
Maybe of the design evolution from before Soul Edge (hosted on Soul Archive, even with a link from here), or from SCII in Waya-hime's outfit. --194.145.185.229 (talk) 17:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Maybe might be fine for the design section ("One rejected early design draft sketch for Taki in Soul Edge")? The source is. --194.145.185.229 (talk) 14:58, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

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I'm removing the following texr because it either doesn't match the sources or doesn't belong in the article per WP:COATRACK, or another reason I will mention as I go. I often find problems in 'Reception' sections, and this seems like no exception.


 * Reception:
 * Doesn't match source(s):

She was also noted to be the favorite Soul series character of GamePro editors McKinley Noble and Billy Berghammer.


 * Doesn't say a great deal about the character, just some random grasping for quotes here, and the 'Street Fighter' comparison is for another character:

In 2011, Cracked.com listed the "sexy ninja" Taki as first among the "important good guys" of Soulcalibur and described her as this series' equivalent of Street Fighter's Chun-Li.


 * The thing is Chun-Li is the "first lady of fighting games" (and SA recently had a fight between her and Mai from KOF for the best female arcade character). It's not random, it's pretty much like if a film director was compared to Spielberg etc. --Niemti (talk) 09:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Very short quotations tell me to check references, and I'm usually correct. Those one- or three-word quotations have been cherry-picked from an article with three minor mentions of Taki. How is "The higher ups want in on some of that awesome Soul Edge power, so they order Mulan, sorry, Chun-li, I mean Xianghua to find it." comparing Taki to Chun-Li? I don't expect to find this kind of mis-quoting in a Good Article. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Trivia/fluff:

Other Game Daily galleries featuring Taki included "Soul Calibur Hotties", "The Next Wave of Video Game Babes", "Babes We're Thankful For", "Brunettes" and "Asian Beauties".


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GamesRadar US chose her to represent the Soul series while discussing the "best in breasts" of video games. In 2007, Joystiq's JC Fletcher called her "everyone's favorite underdressed ninja". In 2011, Ross Lincoln of GameFront included Taki's breasts on his list of "greatest boobs in video game history".

Taki has been also often described as one of the most sexy ninja characters in video games; GameSpy in 2003 described her as "the bounciest ninja this side of Mai Shiranui",  In 2012, FHM included Taki on its list of nine "sexiest ninja babes" in games, comparing her to Solenn Heussaff. In his review of Soulcalibur II, Gaming Target's Ryan Genno wrote, "I love the ninja Taki and her very skin tight red number which I'm surprised got by the censors."
 * Cutting some of the more lightweight reviews (inc sources):

GameDaily featured Taki in its "Babes of the Week" gallery series including the 2007 special "Babe of the Week: Taki", which stated that she is "becoming more agile – and big-breasted – with each new entry. She made such an impact ... that we awarded her a solo gig." In 2008, GameDaily ranked her as 17th "hottest game babe", stating: "Female ninjas will always hold a special place in our hearts, especially Taki, what with her muscular physique and insanely large chest." GameDaily also said, "the only thing better than a regular looking ninja is a big breasted female one." GameDaily praised her "superb fashion sense" and positively contrasted her with Mortal Kombat's Mileena. GameDaily repeatedly contrasted Taki's "inexplicably big" breasts and her "swift ninja moves," and asked, "how does she fight with those big boobs" and said, "she's quite agile too, despite her tremendous breasts."

Complex pitted Taki against Kitana from the Mortal Kombat'' series in its "battle of the beauties" feature, category "female ninjas", and said she was "hot, face mask on or off".