I have to think the CPUs and combat system in this game are ragebait. I cannot think of any other reason why they would operate in such an insufferable manner. It's not even difficulty; It's easy-to-use, spammable actions requiring such unreasonably higher precision to counter. And any "fighting" game with unbreakable throws automatically goes into the party game category, as in not worth putting any kind of considerable time into learning. Movement is the most jank and inconsistent I've ever seen in a game with a pvp game, because sometimes you'll flick the stick and close quarters, and they'll smoothly rotate on axis to the foe, and others, they'll do a whole turn-around animation. In the air, there's many kinds of maneuvers to evade or pressure. None of which are possible on the ground.
The multiplayer modes are just as bad. In a setting where normal attacks are actually useless, you are forced to commit to stronger attacks. Stronger attacks mean more time spent in an idle state performing said attack. In a scenario where all this is the case, there's a bosses that can paralyze you at literally any moment they want, and if the whole team is stunned in this manner, gg. There's so much forced difficulty in the multiplayer modes, and an obscene amount of RNG.
I don't typically get angry when playing games. I play Tekken, and that game is known for being frustrating. But this game had me genuinely ready to put a hole through my monitor multiple times. From a character having a 6 second long cutscene for a basic (stupidly unbreakable) throw, certain ones spamming regular blasts, even at close range, instant evasive skills with a whole cutscene that you can't vanish out of, missions where the whole fight is held up and you can't take out any foes because "they're talking," and there being little to no reward for perfect guarding. You should not be able to challenge after a perfect guard. The fact that someone can just start mashing the attack button after getting perfect blocked before the one who did the perfect block can even do a typical super is absurd. I reiterate again, I have to question how much of this game is actually designed to annoy players, because so many small details add up to a very frustrating experience.
