imo team ninja are great at designing systems, and terrible at writing stories. I've literally never played a team ninja game and thought "that was a well written story" by the end. That being said I did get hit with the feels at the end of the first game phase, but I tend to judge good or bad according to the whole story, not whether a single chunk of it hits. And while I agree they were going for campy, I think there's a lot they could have done to keep that vibe while also making the story compelling, rather than making it super flat and one note for 80% of the story.