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Soul Edge (1995)

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This is a playthrough using Mabochie in the PS1 version of Soul Edge (Japanese version). Read on below for more information...

Mabochie is an unused gameplay character, which means that she is a non-selectable character in the game.

===== WHO IS MABOCHIE =====

Mabochie is the ghost version of Chie, who is Li Long's partner. Mabochie appears in his good ending. It's the one where she appears in front of Li Long and tells him to go back to her.

===== UNUSED CHARACTER INFO =====

The unused characters are created just to be used in specific character endings; to act in certain ways for the story/scene. They are created as gameplay character models just like the regular characters, likely built on using a regular character as a "template", which explains why they have other character's movesets.

The reason that they are able to appear in gameplay fights is because the ending scenes use the actual gameplay characters/models in a gameplay environment.

In the game's code, Namco has stored these characters along with the regular characters within the same address (via separate slots/data banks), meaning that by using third party methods, you can access them for gameplay.

It is unknown on whether they were originally further planned to become playable hidden characters or not.

===== MABOCHIE TECHNICAL INFORMATION =====

On the character select screen, her large portrait is the generic hidden character '?' image.

Her icon is the generic hidden character '?' image.

In gameplay, she uses Seung Mina's name under her lifebar.

In gameplay, she uses Seung Mina's moveset.

In gameplay, her weapon is invisible which means that you can only see the light trails of it.

She has no voices.

As she has no voices, it works in a way where her sound bank has the ability to "copy" other sounds. For example, she copies/uses Soul Edge's voices when fighting him. It is strange on how she doesn't copy other character's voices here.

There can be some glitched sounds/voices that occur when she performs some moves at certain points during fights, you can hear an example of this at 01:39 in the video.

Regarding her voice, she uses/copies the voices of the previously selected character. So for example, in Arcade Mode if you selected Cervantes, then changed your character to Chie, then Chie will use Cervantes' voices. This seems to carry over to other modes in the game.

She has no announcer name voice. Which means that if you win a round/match with her, there will be no voice after the announcer says "The grueling battle ended with the victory of ......". Or if you lost a round/match with her.

If you beat the game with her, the game does not crash. There is no ending and you go straight to the credits. It seems that they have made her status as a "hidden character" status (Sophitia!!, etc.)

She cannot appear in the name entry screen nor can she appear in any rankings tables.

When viewing her Command List, it is named as "MABOCHIE".

In gameplay, she has no facial expression changes at all.

She only has the one costume we see in the video.

If you select her in Edge Master mode, it will freeze the game, which you see starting around 22:19 in the video.

In Edge Master mode, her weapon list is glitched. You can see this starting around 22:19 in the video.

She can lose her "weapon" and operate as a non-weapon character (this is normal function). You can see this starting at 20:01 in the video.

===== CHAPTERS =====

00:00 - Title, Menu and Character Select
00:40 - Regular fights
13:36 - vs. Cervantes (penultimate boss)
15:02 - vs. Soul Edge (end boss)
17:54 - Congratulations and Credits
20:01 - BONUS 1: Mabochie no-weapon demonstration
21:37 - BONUS 2: Mabochie Command List viewing
22:19 - BONUS 3: Mabochie in Edge Master mode

===== MABOCHIE TRIVIA =====

Her name "Chie" means "thousand" and/or "favour" or "benefit".

In Japanese, the word "Mabo" is derived from the word "Maboroshi", which means "ghost" or "phantasm".

===== OTHER INFORMATION / TRIVIA =====

In the USA and Europe, the game was renamed as Soul Blade due to copyright issues over the use of the word "Edge".

In the USA and European versions of the game, slight parts of the intro was edited/changed slightly.

In the European version of the game, Li Long's weapon was changed.

===== ABOUT PS1 SOUL EDGE/BLADE =====

The PS1 version of the game is one of the all-time greats on the console, and is one of the best 'conversion/port of an arcade game' for it's time. Aside from the loading times (which are very short anyway) it's virtually arcade perfect. It helped that the arcade original ran on hardware that was already based on the PS1 hardware.

The PS1 version has tons of features that are not found in the arcade original. For example, the port has 2 extra remixed soundtracks, new character costumes, new weapons, cinematic endings for the characters, the superb Edge Master Mode and more.

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