High Voltage Software.

They aren't very good at what they do. Unless what they do is run their mouths about their games being the best thing since sliced bread only to release something terrible. Because they're great at that....

saw this coming with the change from gladiator ad. sega really screwed them up, i'm sure sega forced HVS to change the setting to get a T rating.

BTW i still might get this if i found it for cheap. this gen i saw a lot of games rated 5 - 7 that are actually good (and i liked the conduit, so HVS have my support)

Looking at Reviews it seems that HVS guys usually try quite hard but they just not a very good dev studio.

A developer with a long list of mediocre games put out another one? Shocking.

Even when this was Gladiator AD I expected it to fail hard.   They had some nice ideas, but fighting games have been around for a looong time now and fighting fans have extremely exacting tastes.   There was never  a hope G:AD or ToL could ever become a SFIV or even TvsC (which is a great fighter on Wii) which makes it a middling fighter which only casual gamers might pick up (hence the change to TofL) and even then not many.    There was never much hope for this idea, not from a studio like HVS which lacks the expertise of this genre.    Clearly Sega saw this which is why it was changed, why it's not marketed and why it's only $30 at launch.      

It can't really fail to meet expectations, clearly, there's very little expectations for this game.

It seems like HVS was making these games to fill in the gaps in the Wii's library.  They couldn't make a game as good as Soul Calibur or any other established fighting game, but that was O.K. as none of those are on the Wii, so they had no competition; any Wii owner wanting a 3D fighter, would have little choice but to buy ToL.

Of you just buy a copy of Soul Calibur for the GC and play it on the Wii.

(Which reminds me, I need to do that).

Mike from Morgantown

You have to find a copy first.

Plus Namco could have just ported III to the Wii, or IV since it was converted to the PSP. But they won't, so it's not HVS's fault they need to fill in this gap.

But sadly, they didn't.  Actually, releasing SoulCalibur Legends instead of a proper Soul Calibur game not only created the gap, it created the perfect opportunity for a game like ToL; a game like ToL, while unfavorable compared to a proper SC, would've shown Namco's incompetence.  Unfortunately, the window closed when Namco released SCIV; once that game came out, most people who wanted a SC game would've just bought an HD system to get that.