I played Soul Calibur 4 and I gotta disagree on one of Joe's points, I feel this new one is even more dam complicated with the movesets that the older ones- then again I'd mainly blame the terrible malevolent AI this game employs.
They utterly punish you if you mess up or miss an attack with this un-blockable and unrelenting combo that brings you down to 1/4 of your health. I barely beat Legendary souls and it wasn't through skill I had to keep trying until the AI would stop auto teching out of my grab spam.