I can understand any disagreement about how I'm saying that the game isn't THAT unenjoyable. But FGs meant to be offline is a hill I'm willing to die on.
Unfortunate that the 'Spark' Aris referred to is inevitably compromised for the sake of expanded accessibility (online).
Fighting games have an intimacy to them that other genres don't. But when your partners are a rotating roster of faceless nobodies in the FT2 online ranked grind, it's hard to feel the good parts of that intimacy. It's hard to feel anything other than anger.