I will be more careful next time... I would still love to hear what you have to say about her.
Having had a non-exhaustive look at her moveset, I'm intrigued. I don't think she's going to become a major timesink for me (Setsuka has always been a style that I've never quite gelled with), but I do think she's going to be worthy addition to the roster. I will say that she has received more of an overhaul than I was expecting, both in terms of visual design and mechanics. Though, admittedly, I don't know why that should surprise me at this point after the last few legacy character additions!
I personally find the slightly-more-action-girl/slightly-less-traditional mode of dress for the character to be winning design over-all. It's an occasion where you can certainly understand why longterm fans might be a bit caught of guard by it, when so many of the designs in this game have had a high degree of fidelity with early designs. Then again, at least some of this story would presumably start before SCIII, if not the majority or all of it, so some discontinuity is justifiable in those terms alone. Anyway, it is after-all Soulcalibur, and the costume design veering towards fantasy combat gear is pretty typical. And I think in any context, I would be likely to find the manner in which she takes her master's haori to be an endearing little detail. Further, between her SCIV outfit being included and CaS having pretty much a massive arsenal of tools for recreating colour traditional Japanese dress (honestly, I can't think of any look that has more tools that converge on it than that general area), recreating more traditional looks that echo her SCIII and SCIV aesthetics (if not nearly identical outfits) ought to be possible.
I'll preface my thoughts on what we've seen of her gameplay by saying again that she's not traditionally been my go-to gal. But I do think she looks like she's one of those characters who has been substantially reworked, for good or ill--not unlike Amy. I'll leave to more dedicated hands to determine whether her core mechanics like her just frames play out faithfully, or are improved even, and how her three extra gauges effect things. I note however that the parasol certainly mixes things up a little this time around in a more substantial way than ever before, as a kidn slice slice of Princess Peach that has been worked into her moveset (which I use as the most immediately relatable example that I think will serve to identify an element of her movement design that I am sure everyone who has watched the movelist video by now has noticed as well--though another and possible more accurate comparison,
insofar as the parasol is concerned, is RWBY's character Neo).
In fact, in general that moveset is a bit of an interesting pastiche of updated legacy moves and new ones entirely. Which of course is not at all surprising for any returning character in this game, but where her moves are new, they tend to be very different from her classic style, creating a bit of an odd juxtaposition that could prove to be brilliant or ham-sifted, for all I could guess at this point. It certainly looks pretty fly in a Soulcalibur kind of way, I will say. And in the most generic terms, I guess I would say I expect like she looks like she is going to handle more fluidly overall. Her newer moves do seem to be the more accessible ones in general, with strings that don't require quite as much demand mechanically. Or so it seems to me from reviewing the movelist: ask me again in a couple of days!
Storywise, I couldn't even begin to speculate about where things are headed, as I don't even remember anything beyond the broadest strokes of her story--if indeed I ever knew them: as memory serves, by SCIII I was beginning to have trouble generating the will to consume all of the tedious lore in the increasingly silly and always pretty uninspired, no real stakes narrative. But I do think it will be interesting to know the exact nature of the relationship with her master, whose death sets off her Roaring Rampage of Revenge': was her affection for him that of an adoring student and protege, or was there even more to it?
