Holy titties are Draco and and the last guy pains in the ass. Draco is just seriously one cheap motherfucker, as noted elsewhere, Christ, the only way I could figure out to beat him was to exploit the AI by doing little jumping VSs constantly in his face since the AI doesn't respond to that effectively, maybe only blocks about 25% or so, max, and doesn't counterattack it much and then can't ground you to start combos or use the shotgun.
That's up there even for cheap SNK bosses. That's more just dumb, really.
Then Golba (is that his name, I think?) is just hard as hell, too. Goddamn. I would say I lost to him at least 15 times in a row before I finally won.
Doesn't help that the tech on the game would be sad even for a launch game- there must be at least 45 seconds, total, of load time between every match or so, even on fucking retries.
I dunno, it's certainly not a good game by any means, but I'm still finding it to be strangely compelling. I think.
Can't really recommend a full-price purchase to anyone who hasn't already made one, though.
Oh, I do like the art style, though. The portraits are cool, as mentioned, and I know that technically-speaking, the character models and the backgrounds aren't anything special, but I like them for some reason. They have a certain style, "look," whatever you want to call it, and I like it. It speaks to me, man.
One last edit- I'm playing it on a stick, not a 360 pad. I can't use those things for anything at all that requires precision anymore, they're terrible and getting worse. I can only imagine just how much worse Draco would be on a pad.
HS to end a match. She was so young to go out like that.
