The regular combo is too weak, forcing you to always use that special spin move and making the game kind of boring.
Aside from that, it's ok.
Unless you were monster rick. The regular combo served a purpose of quick and reliable crowd control. The bigger issue are enemies that randomly bust through your combo.
Cut scenes were so fucking good.

It's weird that this is probably the only game from this era that features pretty extensive cut scenes with photographs of actual people with a creative use of filters.