Eh, the only thing it felt to me was overly reliant on blocking. I want them to slip up more, and do more unsafe things, so the game can MOVE some. But the little flourishes of personality (Each character abusing different things, occasional taunts, doing manuals) make it feel kind of pleasant overall. A.I. Will always be artificial, and I think the way it plays VS the way we've learned to play VS humans eventually outpace each other.
Considering that we've seen the scheduele leading up to this content with chats with the devs almost each week, I don't think anyone who'se paid attention online should be surprised by the overall quality of the mode. For what it is right now, this is basically a high-budget XBLA game. That's had it's developers yanked out from under it once they've finally been able to settle in with the game. That's not got dev assistance coming from a company we've barely seen ever make their own game.
I think it's a good start, and a reminder of what this product truly is; a main-stream big game that gets to grow while we play it, rather than a final product released all at once. If they come through with the growth and ideas they hint at, I don't mind having a slightly lacking arcade / story hybrid for what will ultimately be a few short months compared to the life of the full product.
I do wonder what changed along the way, though. They said early on there'd be no alt endings, now we're sitting on 3 per character. I would have been much more bummed if we got endings like this, and only had one per character, and no hidden Shadow Jago with a few new moves + a rough version of Season 2 ultimates running on him.
