Soul Caliber - and all fighting games - have crap plot and crap characters as a general rule.
Guts is leagues above Nightmare
Soul Cals story works for what it is. Except V. But that game wasn't exactly finished.
When something (Night Terror) is confirmed to be the most powerful being in that universe filled with demons, vampire, genetically engineered weapons, the Greek gods, and beings like Abyss.
You don't take it out in under a minute.
Especially after taking 3 of his beams to the face.
Wanna know how much damage one of those do in Soul Calibur 3?
Around 3/4ths of your life bar.
And he was shot by 3 of them.
Regardless if Fighting games have crap story, you can't ignore it. Nor actual things from gameplay.
Fak. Lotion there are things I like to wake up to.
Someone provoking me into an argument isn't one of them.