Probably the worst tie-in anime fighter I've ever played. The combat is jank, the health bars are way too long, and it looks like total ass, which is all par for the course. What really sucks is that it doesn't seem capture anything about the characters that would make them fun in a fighter.

I only played exactly one match of Rukia vs. Ulquiorra but each character seemed to have practically no moves, and the ones they did have were underwhelming and somewhat random. Rukia doesn't even get to be a Shinigami at all until she uses her super, and Ulquiorra's moveset had nothing to do with his canonical abilites. He doesn't use a sword, he doesn't fire Ceros, he doesn't use Resurreccion, he doesn't even seem particularly fast. Instead he teleports and creates black holes, something he never does in canon.

I looked through a move list of all the characters and while it seems like Ulquiorra got a worse deal than most others (probably due to his abilities not being shown much before the game came out), it's still absolutely tragic that the characters have such a limited move pool and so much of it is eaten up by generic melee attacks. And while Ulquiorra might be one of the worst characters compared to his representation in the manga/anime, he's far from the only character in this game that had shown barely any of their actual abilities by the time this game was made. Rather than trying to include a bunch of characters from an at-the-time brand-new arc, they really should have waited until they had any idea what these new characters actually did.

Compared to the contemporary Naruto, One Piece, and DBZ fighting games this is a real disappointment and I can see why this series of games never continued.