Same here…leaving out what could be considered *if not seen multiple times as* your main mascot? And because doesn’t really punch? Really Nitsuma? Really? FAIL!

Why couldn’t Ono-San do this? He did SFIV and that was the same as all the otther Capcom vs. Nitsuma did Tatsunoko vs Capcom and now this….

You bring up a lot of good points, so I’ll go through, paragraph by paragraph…

Hm, well, there are definitely some areas where we disagree. The character roster for instance, I see only two questionable choices for inclusions. Akuma, who is a Ryu knock-off when they otherwise avoided clone-ish characters, and Sentinel, a generic robot that was overpowered in 2 and is sadly so again in 3. And even there at least Sentinel has a unique fighting style. And there was only one disappointing exclusion, Mega Man – still can’t understand why he got passed up, unless they’re deliberately holding him back for DLC.

Akuma isn’t that bad of an inclusion. I figured we’d get at least one other Shoto other than Ryu and I guess Akuma is a good choice. *Of course, we’ll probably get another one like Sakura for DLC.* And Sentinel is overpowered, is cheap, has WAY to much health and does take up a rather large portion of the screen with his attacks…but he IS a Marvel vs Capcom 2 fan favorite as far as tournament characters go. But now I feel that if I don’t use Sentinel, I won’t win matches and that sucks. They better either nerf him or bring in another large character on the Capcom side, say that robot from Lost Planet in Tatsunoko vs Capcom, to help counter Sent. As for Megaman, I feel they left him out for actually a good reason. *Not the lame-ass one Nitsuma is using right now which is that Megaman doesn’t punch*. Rather, I believe it was a way for Capcom to wait it out and see which version of Megaman people wanted to see the most. *In this case, it sounds like Megaman X.* So, hopefully this will prove to be correct *someone did hack the disk and found 46 character slots on it.*

For others it’s actually fantastic that they included more obscure characters. You mentioned MODOK for instance. He has the single most unique playstyle in the game, with odd normals, special attacks that he can power up by analyzing his enemies, and an automatic flight mode instead of normal jumps to name a few. He’s not a personal favorite of mine, but I think he was a good choice. For one that is a personal favorite, Dormammu. Again, very unique playstyle – a keepaway character that conjures his attacks exactly where he wants them to appear instead of throwing projectiles, and can charge up magic to release various unique and powerful effects. He’s part of my current main team. Yet we wouldn’t have him if they were throwing in only fan favorites. This actually makes this game’s roster the only one I’ve seen that can compete with BlazBlue’s for sheer variety of very different character styles, and I love it for it.

I don’t mind M.O.D.A.K. for his uniqueness or Dormmammu…except that M.O.D.A.K. is rarely ever used *if not at all* by players online so it seems like a waste…that and She-Hulk….*shivers*

I know that people were also complaning about Trish and X-23 but it turned out they weren’t bad characters.

As I commented on another review, I can certainly excuse the lack of a story mode here as well, because it’s a crossover fighting game. Now I love the BlazBlue games and their story modes – they’re what got me into fighting games – but a story mode like theirs just isn’t a realistic expectation when dealing with a crossover game where the two sides have as little to do with each other as these do, especially when one side is a massive crossover of characters that have nothing to do with each other themselves (Capcom’s characters don’t come from a single more-or-less coherent world like Marvel’s do). About the best we could expect is a cheesy nonsensical story mode like MKvsDCU had, and I’m not particularly bothered by the lack of that.

Except Capcom numerous times said there would be a story mode, with set teamed characters facing off against the character you picked first *just like how you can get the endings for the characters.*

Kinda have to disagree on the endings, too. Some of them were bland, like Captain America’s, and those should’ve been done better. But others were quite hilarious, like X-23, MODOK, or Hulk’s. Still others were good fanservice – the Dormammu ending you showed has him crossing over to the world of the Darkstalkers franchise (the one Morrigan, Felicia, and Hsien-Ko come from) and taking command of that series’ villains, for example; or Iron Man’s has him making a new suit of armor based on Galactus, which is awesome. I suppose you could argue they should have done full cutscenes with voice acting or something, but that strikes me as a bit nitpicky when we’re not dealing with some sort of epic story mode endings, but rather simple humor and fanservice endings.

Still would have been better for them to be like Capcom’s other product, Super Street Fighter IV, which had FMV.

I’m also very happy with the simpler button scheme. Separate buttons for punches and kicks always struck me as unnecessary, and isn’t very friendly for a console controller with only four face buttons. Maybe it’s partially because I started with BlazBlue, which uses a four-button scheme that I found excellent and intuitive, but I simply did not like the six-button punch/kick thing when I tried SSFIV, and I’m glad to see this game wasn’t saddled with that.

You can understand Joe’s frustration however, when people spam the same attacts over and over and over because of simple mode

I also haven’t experienced as many connection issues online as you apparently. Most of the time I get an opponent, and connection failures come at maybe a 10-15% rate for me. Still irritatingly higher than it should be though – that does need to be fixed, and hopefully they can improve the input lag issues along with it.

Just yesterday, Capcom released a patch to help fix the problem, but there is still failures to connect. Before, I maybe got it 75% of the time, now its down to 50……but its sll bad ratio.

I agree on some points though. While I don’t use lobbies myself save when playing one of my few friends that plays this game (in which case we only use a 2-person lobby), the lack of spectator mode is an obvious problem for those who do. And yes, a tutorial mode would have been an important addition if they wanted to cater to newer players – that’s something that BB: Continuum Shift had that I certainly think this game would have benefited from. And as addictive as I find mission mode to be, it should have some of the options that BB:CS’s challenge mode had – the option to display the button inputs in place of the move list, and an option to watch the computer demonstrate each combo so you can see how the moves are supposed to link together. I’ve actually had to watch youtube videos of people completing those missions to understand some of them. There’s no reason that should be the case.

Spectator Mode….you really feel like your there…

I’m also suspicious about that DLC “Shadow Mode” that’s coming. That strikes me as something that should’ve been in the game from the start, or at most offered as free DLC, yet I kind of suspect they’re going to make it paid DLC. For a mode that’s just another way to play against a computer, that’d be just shameless.

Not to mention that also those Alt. costumes coming on March 1st, as well as Jill and Shuma were also found on the disk. *And Frank West and Doc Ock’s names appeared as well.*

Anyway, sorry for the long post.