Don't get me wrong. Unlocking the hundreds of clothes modes fighting styles etc in Soul Calibur 3 was some of my best memories as well. But that wasn't obviously designed to hold you back and try to contact you into spending real money online. You'd unlock one to five things all the time. You could easily make enough in points to buy something in just one fight where here you have to go through eight fights of at least three rounds five times. So... 120'ish fights to buy a shirt. Where previously i could unlock it in one fight if i set up the parameters correctly. And at worse you could set matches to one and put on huge handicap so you could spend an afternoon easily grinding something out if you so choose.

But! I still love this game. Making characters is still a dream. The engine feels more smooth and responsive than previous. I feel more at home with my favorite characters than i have in a long time. It's a fantastic step in the right direction. I just grow leery of skeezy tactics or at least the potential of it