It pains me to see games like this come out, since I know they will be fantastic, and this one definitely is. It's probably the closest I've seen to my dream fighting game, a unification of Smash's movement and the mechanical complexity of trad fighters like Street Fighter or Guilty Gear. It's got meter, supers, fuckin' Roman Cancels, the works. The production quality is far better than the first entry, which, while good, had a permeating stench of shovelware to it. Now all it needs is a functional training mode and a combo counter (seriously, why the everloving hell do platform fighters never have combo counters in normal play, that shit is fighting game 101)

The problem is that people just seem to refuse to give a shit about non-Smash platform fighters, regardless of how much they improve upon Smash's gameplay or how strong their character lineup is. Whether that's a testament to the closemindedness of the Smash community or Smash's sheer quality is up to you, but, with what seems to be the end of the Smash series, or at least a very long hiatus that will likely never see the series return to its former glory, new platformer fighters like this, Fraymakers, and the upcoming Rivals 2 can finally break their way out into popularity.