It's called dramatic irony, but alright.

Even if that's what it was, and I would argue it's not, dramatic irony doesn't make a character likable.
It can make them well written, but not likable.
PATROKLOS IS NOT LIKEABLE

By all rights, Lexia should have. Even the main character. Her mother was one of Soul Calibur's first true wielders, she has a past that has darkness and controversy surrounding it, but at least she keeps in good spirits. If they wanted to take the series in a new direction, something I can understand after two games of gloomy and self loathing (though still awsome) Sigfried, that's great, more power to em, but Lexia could have done the job so much better.

I'm just glad the series has established Soul Calibur is malevolent as well, it explains why awsome, good hearted characters like ZWEI and Lexia don't get it and why our jackass Greek friend does.

Whoohoo bumped just in time.
Just got this today and I'm enjoying it. The story mode was bad but I'm really enjoying the customization and Quick Battle.
Made myself an incomplete Travis Touchdown earlier, working for it still, but I can't wait to finish it.

If you're on PS3, let me know so we can play sometime.

I'm on PS3, yeah. I'm still trying to get used to it all though. Using character customization to avoid some designs of the original characters (I hate Patroklos's design, along with Yoshimitsu's new one).
Hell, the last Soul Calibur I've played before this was 3. So I have quite a bit of getting used to after skipping 4.