The score isn't so much an indication of the game's quality as my inability to click with it. Not all games are for everyone, and after giving this one a couple hours to try and get into it, I bounced off very hard. There's a clear amount of depth here, if you watch anyone play this who knows what they're doing, but I just didn't find it enjoyable enough to want to put in the time needed to master its mechanics.

And, if I could find one major criticism with this game, it would in how steep of an ask that is. The game lacks even a basic training mode, merely providing static info screens that do little to convey how it truly works. It essentially throws you in the deep end of its main single-player mode, which is made all the more difficult by the actual difficulty - even on easy, the CPU can eviscerate if you lack complete understanding of all the game's systems. It does not really let you work your way up in a way that allows you to achieve comfort with how it plays - you either sink or swim. Guess I drowned.