The core is really, REALLY good. V Trigger/V Skill vs Focus attack seems to be a pretty good tradeoff and the matches have a really nice, fluid feel. It does feel easier to pick this up than SFIV was, but maybe that's just being familiar with IV after 7 years. It's set to be a great game...

...once everything is added in, which makes it frustrating. Sometimes I don't want to play online, or I just want to fight the computer with a character I'm trying to learn and see what works against other characters. We'll get to do that at some point down the line, yes, but not having an arcade mode is...weird ad best and stupid at worst.

As it stands, I'm liking Chun Li so far. Her mids were nerfed (cr. F is an invitation for a mouthful of fists), but I do look forward to sorting out her moves and tossing my hat in the fight game