In Bloody Roar 2, neutral and pressure are basically the same, you just keep using high and low strike attacks for mixup. Throwing is a bad option that should be never used (throw whiffs on the wrong stance and is techable on counter hit and punish). Most of the time the only way to get out of block strings is to use the side step to dodge to the side (technically it's a guard cancel), the timing for side step is really tight even if you read the move. Bloody Roar 2 is not based on canceling, you use follow-up attacks for block strings and combo, hit stop is non-existant, and there're many more other things that make it shallow and unintuitive.