Namco has said that one goal of Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny is to hook beginners and novice players on the Soul series. While Broken Destiny isn't a straight port, nearly every move, character and arena was already present in Soulcalibur IV. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing; SC IV was just as well-crafted as the other games in the Soul series, and amazingly, not a lot is lost in the transition to Broken Destiny, at least not in terms of control and presentation.