...I must say... I hate it. The controls are worse than ever, my inputs are never read correctly (resulting in my character standing and using the wrong moves when I tell them to attack, or just standing there and not attacking at all), and some of the characters are unimaginative. Some others are pretty awesome (like Viola and Pyrrha Omega). They took out Talim, Setsuka, Zasalamel, etc. and replaced them with clones of characters already in the game. Arcade mode is okay, but the difficuly curve shoots up like a rocket on cocaine.

I come from Soul Calibur 2, 3, and 4. So, I know how to play the game. They just decided to change the controls to some weird hybrid of Tekken (which I hate) and Soul Calibur, creating some terrible fecal matter of a control sceheme, and eliminating me as a player because they had to "fix" something that didn't need to be fixed.

Basically, the only fun part of this game is making characters in the Character Creator mode.

/rant