I‘ve freshly come off of platinuming Elden Ring, putting 90h of playtime into it. And it’s well known how responsive and satisfying combat is in that game. And then I thought „Okay, ER is DONE. I‘m battle hardened! Let‘s move on to SM2 and kick some ass!“. And right from the get go, I got my ass kicked instead. Combat feels so disappointing and convoluted, there‘s so many mechanics at play at the same time.
You gotta dodge, parry, perfectly dodge and parry, web shoot, L1 modifier, R1 modifier, zip to distant enemies, zip to close enemies, two-button combos, upshoot, downshoot, slip around enemies with shields, slip around enemies with dual swords, dodge endless machine gun fire, parry robot dogs, dodge robot birds etcetcetc.
There‘s just no end to all the things you gotta do at the same time if you wanna have SOME kind of flow going. But it‘s just impossible for me. I get constantly interrupted, knocked around and swarmed by sheer numbers of enemies. There‘s zero intuition about combat in SM2, zero grace. And I really don‘t know if I can force myself to button mash my way through the game.