It Plays Worse Than Ever

[jitz]

The shift from quick and strong grapples, to two part grapples essentially breaks the game.

So incase you didn't know, you can't just flick the right analogue stick and perform a quick grapple, now each direction locks into a hold, and from their you can do another direction to pick a move or change your position. So that gives you two chances to reverse a grapple before you execute the move. The only time when a move can be directly performed is when the opponent is in a groggy state, giving you a choice of four strong grapples, but locking out access to putting your opponent into a hold.

So you will be seeing repeat moves against groggy opponents a lot, the AI on the highest difficulty (already notoriously known for reversing everything) now has twice the opportunities to reverse your shit (let a lone a smart human opponent who knows how to play), and finishers not needing a groggy opponent further gimps aerial finishers (like they weren't already gimped enough) because now standing finishers can be executed out of nowhere.

It's shit.