>>718169110
>Shame I never played a platform fighter I got raped, but it made me want to learn
Congratulations, you've passed the first filter. Platform fighters demand a different skill set than traditional, 2D fighting games, and you have to be okay with getting your ass beat while you develop it.

RoA2 might actually be the best fighting game on the market at the moment, but obviously it's a platform fighter - so for many fighting game players there's a big, fat asterisk appended to that suggestion. It also attracts a lot of hatred because 1.) anthropomorphic animal characters and 2.) it isn't Smash, but
>it's cheap
>DLC characters are free
>the devs actively support competitive play and communicate with players
>it's balanced enough, sorry Loxodont
>it's fun and has a high skill expression ceiling
>it's fucking cheap and the DLC characters are free
The game won me over by not gypping me like every other fucking fighting game on the market. I probably wouldn't have even played it if it weren't for the free weekend before release. My friends keep asking me to play SF6 with them more and I'm down until I remember that I paid $60 for it and I'm going to need to pay at least $30 more to play the new characters I actually want to play.