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A great entry for the franchise, maybe their best since T5.
There are a lot of things that i couldnt enjoy on this game tho: its balancing deteorated over time with patches that failed to do justice to the characters unique gameplans and querks (in favor of a more homogeneised roster); bloated cast with 50 characters with a 100 moves each (paired with limited practice mode options) make it difficult and anoying to lab; some questionable business practeces (paid frame data and overpowered DLC characters with the innability to lab without spending money come to mind, with the latter messing up the balancing even more); shambolic online, some of the worst ive seen in a game from that specific era (savescumming, plugging and cheating are all allowed, has bad netcode and has way to many loading screens than it should); disapointing offline content (the story isboth bad and short, the character episodes manage to be some of the worst in the series and just lacks some of the cool fun modes from previous entries like team battle). All of this in spite of me having loads of fun at times, ive made friends with the game, i indulged in the mechanics, has good presentation (despite the subpar grafics and models the game is vibrant, is very well animated, hit effects, sound effects and slomo mafe matches feel dinamic and cool, has decent music and amazing stage theming) and is an overall good fighting game. I just feel that its problems take me away from the fun more often than it should.
Overral, i find it difficult to recomend this game in 2024, online is dead and other than that there isnt much to do. While is a good game (even great at times), a lot of its problems can very easily get in ypur nerves, and its safe to say that they may have set a bad precedent for the sequel.