Perfect Legend@PerfectLegend
Arguments against sparking zero be like
1. Since you can use defensive mechanics to escape combos it’s not a REAL fighting game.
Killer Instinct, Dead or Alive, Guilty Gear, Mortal Kombat all do this too though.
2. Bring up fixed issues that are no longer in the game and ignore all quality of life changes oretending the game is in the same state as release in bad faith.
3. Use a very unique and specific interaction like vanish wars (I like vanish wars just annoying in lag) to discredit the game. But it’s okay for other games to have what many would say are corny situations and still maintain its credibility?
4. It’s not tenkaichi 1-3
5. Every situation in Sz can be challenged but comes at a cost. Timing or resource and the skill is behind managing your resource while getting the opponent to waste their resource or get them out of rhythm.
But people rather someone hit you once and get a cutscene long combo into a knockdown and setplay aka loop situation and say it’s more of a real fighting game. Does nobody want to play a game that lets you interact until you KO?
I think all the recent fighting game releases has rotted most brains into thinking you need every game to be designed the same for it to be legit.
Or you just don’t know any better.
It’s sad to see people continue to attempt to gatekeep this game while they are gatekept in other areas or communities.
I don’t see anyone saying hey let’s revisit the game now since it’s had improvements and see how the game and out in a comp environment again.
But what I see is those going NOPE let’s just keep dooming on the game despite the continued efforts made.
It’s like having new info in a argument that changes things and ignorantly doubling down for the memes and jokes.
Its disappointing really.
I hope Sz can pick back up competitively because the way y’all act towards it is the same exact way people act/acted towards Dead Or Alive.