I personally feel insulted that Namco thought that this game was ready to release. Yes, the engine is beautiful and really tight, but literally everything else frankly makes me feel like I'm being shit on. The single player story was an atrocity that will not soon be forgotten. Patroklos and Pyrrha are literally steaming piles of waste, stinking up everything else about the new character design in the game. Natsu. Leixia. Xiba. Why Namco? Were Cassandra, Sophitia, Taki, Xianghua, and Kilik not good enough? Did they not appeal to the right crowd? The script alone sounds like it was written by a freshman in high school.
I really like Zwei and Viola though, so I don't completely hate the game. Just mostly abhor it.
In the next SC, if they ever do it, I thought the weapon master mode was a really cool idea. Having to clear stages and constantly buy/upgrade weapons was pretty innovative for a fighting game. Now if they could mix in a different game mode, kind of like what Mortal Kombat did with a overworld map that you can run around in, I would like to see a Dynasty Warriors-esque battle mode where in between story fights, you're tearing through thousands of soldiers and when it gets to facing another main character, it zooms in on the action and switches to 3d fighting game....I think this should be integrated some how, and if you steal my idea, at least let me know so I can appoint the right lawyers.