>>543509023
XV was made by a newbie team that had no experience in making action games and Tabata was never good at directing this genre to begin with, so he just told them to make it work somehow and the XV team went through trial and error with the combat using whatever scraps were left from Versus XIII. The fact that the demo and the base game feel completely different is proof that they didn't really know what they were doing. I believe the gameplay shown in Versus XIII was more polished and how it should have been.