What happens when Soulcalibur 6 meets Tekken? Tekken 8 season 1&2 boiiii.

They took one look at SC6 and went "♥♥♥♥ it we ball" even though SC6 never made it to SEASON 3.
Egregious micro-transactions which honestly were a given considering their other game failed and they had to make money back SOMEHOW so they rolled with the battlepass and Tekken shop a month AFTER release as to avoid review bombing and boosting initial sales numbers, but that's not even what this is about.
Season 2 shows that they completely ignored anyone and everyone that talked about and played T8 in season 1 and just went with the hyper aggressive flow. Don't get me wrong, I understand that they advertised it as such way before the game even came out, but the fact that you CANT deal with so many moves in any way outside of a POWERCRUSH or ATTEMPTING to enter heat to interrupt the opponent is stupid.
Their idea of aggression is constant 50/50 mixups and + moves that lead into stance transitions that again lead into more mixups, thats not hyper aggression, thats being re%#%^#@.
Little to no space left for the defender and overbearing tools for the attacker, making every interaction just feel super forced and whether you win or lose it matters not, you still feel the same way, nothing, you dont feel good about the win or the loss, its me gambling then the opponent gambling, then I interrupt with 1 PC, then they interrupt with 1 PC and thats it.
As a legacy player and a HWOARANG MAIN WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE GAME BEING TOO AGGRESSIVE (IKR?),
this game isn't made for the pro scene or competitive scene, and it sure as ♥♥♥♥ fails at being for the "casuals" either, because the average player in T8 is BLUE RANK and not ORANGE/RED where they BELONG because HEAT carries them that far, and CERTAIN CHARACTERS even carry people to TK/TE with the same playstyle of an ORANGE RANK (and even THEY are complaining.)

TLDR: S2 sucks big boi time, the general direction of the game is ♥♥♥♥ blocking/sidestepping even though they "BUFFED" sidesteps but gave so many characters new tracking moves which are super good and + with or without heat, they are forcing you to play 2D in a 3D environment in most scenarios.

Really good COOP game, more developers should look into making COOP games a thing and bringing back the local couch experience for new gen consoles and PC's, make COOP games glorious again with infinite potential.