Current review is for World Tour and Battle Hub only.
World Tour takes the premise of a tutorial for a fighting game and stretches it to 20+ hours. While older players may not enjoy it as much, I really enjoyed the mode as a newcomer to the series. It gave me the information I needed to succeed, and left me with plenty of space to try things out. I wish there were more explorable hub areas, but Metro City and Old Nayshall were diverse enough to keep me interested. There are some pretty dark and heavy moments in the back half that I would have liked to have seen expanded upon. That ending was not what I was expecting, but that was in a good way. I do wish there had been a bit more interactivity between our avatar and the main cast of the game, but I get that the point was to have the story centered around your playable character. Still all very good content. I'm looking forward to seeing how mode plays out with new DLC characters and possibly even story DLC. Not much but new characters to go back to now.
Looking back at the Battle Hub now, it's fairly bare bones of an experience and doesn't entertain for that long. The arcade ports are kinda neat, but don't really amount to much, and there's nothing keeping people wanting to come back there.
World Tour takes the premise of a tutorial for a fighting game and stretches it to 20+ hours. While older players may not enjoy it as much, I really enjoyed the mode as a newcomer to the series. It gave me the information I needed to succeed, and left me with plenty of space to try things out. I wish there were more explorable hub areas, but Metro City and Old Nayshall were diverse enough to keep me interested. There are some pretty dark and heavy moments in the back half that I would have liked to have seen expanded upon. That ending was not what I was expecting, but that was in a good way. I do wish there had been a bit more interactivity between our avatar and the main cast of the game, but I get that the point was to have the story centered around your playable character. Still all very good content. I'm looking forward to seeing how mode plays out with new DLC characters and possibly even story DLC. Not much but new characters to go back to now.
Looking back at the Battle Hub now, it's fairly bare bones of an experience and doesn't entertain for that long. The arcade ports are kinda neat, but don't really amount to much, and there's nothing keeping people wanting to come back there.