Great game with a huge emphasis on footsies and neutral. Pretty easy to learn, doesn't require to lab in training that much, no need to learn long combos, just get used to matchups and spacing. It has its depth despite its fairly low skill floor. The biggest gameplay related disadvantage for me is the roster being not that unique in comparison to Samsho 5 Special (on the other hand, it does not have isssues with hop priorities and weak repel mechanics like 5SP had).

The saddest issue with the game is that its netcode is one of the worst in the genre, and its release with temporary excusivity killed pretty big interest to this game in FGC. Who knows, maybe SNK and their contractors will implement rollback netcode properly, which will revive the game. But I doubt it sadly. If you have friends to play locally (or via Parsec), then give it a shot for a solid "easy to learn, hard to master" gameplay.

The tutorial makes the game seem vastly more complicated than it actually is despite the fact the game works more or less the same as any other fighter. So many rules as to when this or that can be activated, health must be at x percentage, meter at y, can be activated only once per match, etc. etc. The tutorial doesn't even mention which button does what up front. So I'm pausing the game to see the buttons WHILE DOING THE TUTORIAL.

Once done with the tutorial I'm booted out to the main menu where there's nothing left but arcade mode. But the goofy, balloony looking characters, art style that's simultaneously garish and dreary, and samey roster ("weirdo with sword" done nineteen different ways) leave me completely uninvested. It should also be mentioned that trying to select any DLC character redirects you to the PSN store where you may download that character, even if you own all the season passes. Those characters become free, but you still have to download each and every character one by one which is pretty gross. On top of that some characters still require that I pay such as Mina- wait, wasn't she included in one of the passes? If I buy her wouldn't I technically be buying her twice? I honestly don't know.

The best game in the series bar none. Feels like they cherry picked stuff from older games that worked and built upon it from there. The single player/story stuff isn't the best, which I feel is especially unfortunate cause SamSho has a really interesting world and cast. The game also launched with really janky online but SNK did eventually make an attempt to fix that even if it took 4 years. Easy to pick up, super fun and with a fantastic roster of characters. Also shoutouts to the three series newcomers for being such perfect fits that it's hard to believe they aren't longtime veteran characters.

Provavelmente meu jogo de luta preferido. As mecânicas funcionam muito bem e desde o lançamento o jogo é muito bem balanceado. Diferente da maioria esmagadora de jogos de luta, você entende o jogo rápido e não há muitos testes de conhecimento. Em pouco tempo vc está jogando o básico de footsies, leitura do oponente e reações, sem precisar decorar combos e criar blockstrings gigantes.

Infelizmente não há outros jogos de luta que chegam perto da pureza deste. E infelizmente esse jogo sofreu de uma das estratégias de lançamento mais dementes e que acabaram com o online. O jogo foi lançado para consoles, só um ano depois para PC pela Epic, e mais um ano depois na Steam, dividindo a base de jogadores demais e ainda tendo um netcode bem ruim. Foi dificil encontrar com quem jogar no PC.