Yeah, I had no luck getting into a match on the PC version for some reason. Auto-match make in player match had me fighting the ai for 5 mins with nothing. Then searching for sessions would show a list and I'd join only to have my entire game basically lock up since when you join someone is in a match and you lose access to all controls while waiting for the match to finish. Can't even hit start and back out? So have to task manager force exit the game if you don't wanna wait. Then you watch other people fight and move up the queue and then the session would always end before I got to fight :\ After about 30 mins never got a fight so gave up. Not sure I'll bother with the MP the way it's set up.
Started up story mode, it's alright. Don't really care about the main story, just want to play as all the characters and get their endings like the old Tekken games but I don't think that's how it works here. The character episodes are like 1 fight and a short ending, whereas the main story mode is just tons of cutscenes and hardly any fights. Doesn't seem like there's a satisfying middle ground of a bunch of an intro + arcade fights + ending. So I get the feeling I'm gonna be over the single player stuff in like a week.
But the core combat looks and plays great, has tons of characters and stages. So I guess outside occasional local MP, probably just be sticking to practicing in practice mode and then fighting in treasure battle mode or doing arcade mode runs. Nothing still lives up to Arc System Works games for SP content. Feels like GG Rev 2's $20 upgrade has more of a SP game than T7.
Game would be perfect for solo if it just had:
-A good tutorial mode teaching all the basics and advanced strategies
-An easy way to run through movelists in practice mode
-Arcade mode was longer (5 stages?) and had arcade endings for all the characters making an incentive to learn all the cast and go through arcade mode at least once with each
That'd be like 20 hours of solo content right there and a way to ease new players into learning all the cast.
Also the customization is a mixed bag the more I go through it. It's like instead of making dozens of unique outfits/items for each individual character like VF4/5 had, they made a bunch of clothes/items and tried to make them work/fit on every character. There's very few unique items to each character and so a lot of the clothes and stuff don't fit the characters that well because they're very generic. Also almost no unique hair options and just some shitty generic haircuts everyone shares.
But that being said, when you can still make cowboy Akuma with his flower bouquet, it's not bad:
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