trying my damn hardest to push my own personal bias and the good memories ive had with this game as a kid aside, one thing that youre going to find out when you revist this game is that its just so packed all the biggest features of 2000s fighting games (and more weird shit). bizarre currency based character creation, several types of story modes, stupid fucking minigames and an insane amount of unlocks (a staple of 3d mortal kombat). as a kid this was the holy grail of fighting games with just how much it allowed you to do but as time passes more and more i realize just how extremely overwhelming it is sometimes - just the most bonkers late ps2 era fighting game