It deserves the praise it gets, even though I’m no good at fighting games. Obviously future games do it better, but an important stepping stone nonetheless.
Not bad for a first outing, then again most games in the series are great (except snapped, that one I repress). Other games have more variety and such but not taking into account the hardware.
This redefines the definition of peak fiction, a masterpiece of a game with zero flaws whatsoever (well, maybe there being too many koroks but it’s fun totally transporting them normally and not violating the Geneva convention)