This game has nice start dating (everything is relative ...), I took as much fun playing it as if it was a recent release. All that to say that the combat system, albeit a peculiar one, remains (and will always be I think) very effective! Even if I do not have one, play with arcade joystick, it must be fantastic ...! Regarding music, rock-metal with some classical sometimes it's great, it fits perfectly with the atmosphere. Purists will be delighted to learn that the Japanese voice acting is included. Those who like to play solo will also be delighted by a story mode and a really damn good arcade mode with multiple endings for each character.
The only fault lies in the history of this universe: sometimes complex and lacking details ... It seems to me that this is the very beginning of this saga and yet sometimes I felt really dropped, as if I missed one or two episodes ...