Reception
In a 2002 poll by Namco prior to the release of Soulcalibur II regarding their favorite character from Soulcalibur, Yoshimitsu placed sixth, with 4.56% of the tally. He was also ranked as sixth by IGN in 2008, with a comment, "Yoshimitsu's blade has always felt more at home with his fellow Soul fighters." 1UP.com spotlighted him as "by far, the strangest character" of Soulcalibur IV. In 2010, We Do Games ranked Yoshimitsu as the tenth best character in fighting game history. In 2011, Machinima.com ranked Yoshimitsu as the seventh-best ninja in all video games, while Play listed him among the top ten ninjas on the PlayStation consoles; UGO Networks also ranked Yoshimitsu's special costume in Tekken 5 as the ninth best alternate costume in all of gaming. In 2012, Complex ranked him as the eighth swiftest ninja in games, commenting on his strange and alien-like design, while GamesRadar ranked him as the third best fighting game character in the genre's history, calling him "also one of the most iconic playable characters in both the Tekken and Soulcalibur series" and commenting that Yoshimitsu’s "most impressive trait is how frequently his costume changes and his alternate costumes are always wildly different from their already-inventive counterparts."
GamesRadar listed a crossover match-up between Sodom and Yoshimitsu ("two of the only jerks rude enough to bring swords to a fist fight (...) both bring some pizzazz to the tired old samurai fashion scene; Yoshimitsu with his space cyborg alien freakshow") as one of the match-ups they want to see in Street Fighter X Tekken. NowGamer listed a match-up between Vega and Yoshimitsu as one of the ones they want to see in this game, adding that "any bout between these two would be a mind-boggling display of fast attacks across the screen." FHM listed Yoshimitsu and Dhalsim as one of the "10 Awesome Fantasy Fights in Street Fighter X Tekken", adding "Hard to say who’d win, but this one’s sure to be a circus of a fight!".
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