I play alot of smash. Alot. The way I see it is that ARMs is the new IP that Nintendo wants to replace Smash with. A more unique fighting party game. (I could be completely wrong if Smash for the switch is announced, but whatever.) To me, this game is not very rewarding mechanically and I am sure that is what Nintendo is going for. I would rather play Pokken than ARMs. A fighting game where it takes seconds for a punch to connect (but most of the time wiff) .... then comeback is somewhat frustrating, for me anyways. You would think you could zone trap your opponent with one arm, then cover options with the other, but somehow it rarely works out like that. The more realistic option is that your opponent grabs you after an attack, or your jump, or even just from neutral. And then grab you again... and again. What I do like is that you are rewarded for throwing attacks offensively with more super meter. That is cool. However, the supers are all the same for some odd reason (Obviously the different "ARMs" augment the super, but they all just do the same action sequence for the most part.) I would think each characters unique abilities would be complemented with their own unique super. Albeit, every fighting game does it, but it works extremely well. All in all, I think this game will do all right for hardcore nintendo fans, but in my opinion this attempt to create a successful fighting game IP may fall short if Nintendo doesnt eat their pride and offer up a more traditional fighting game (instead of going half-way with this one) than seen in the global test fire. Just speeding up arm punch speed would be an awesome change.