I’m so tired of assimilationist brand-brained media.

Physics feel just as whack as they did in 2022. It's hard to put into words, but it's like gravity changes with every attack. You'll be speeding up and slowing down like crazy. You may be super floaty from one aerial and completely normal with another. It slows the game down to a snail's pace. Nobody gets in each other's range because they're stuck in some slow-ass attack animation after missing. Playing aggressively is unsatisfying, especially with the short delay before aerials.

Progression is as "free to play" as they come. There is no incentive to play once methods of reward XP have been exhausted. You certainly won't earn enough grinding normally to level your character in a reasonable amount of time. Rifts mode is too slow with its rewards, and the AI puts up little challenge even on crushing. It feels more like a list of unfun chores than an adventure mode.

Combine this with an exploitative Cash Shop (targeted at children) and there goes the rest of my goodwill. Intellectually vapid piece of corpo trash