I personally feel this was one of those games that was refined to make new players more interested in the Fatal Fury series... I mean most people can probably get intimidated by the whole plane system and crazy command inputs... I'm thinking that's why there were some stages with only 1 plane vice 2... With Garou, there are no planes... However, they put more emphasis on the just defend system, and the break system... I like it because there's still variety in the game itself... Sure, it might come off as an alternate to 3S, with only having Terry as a returning character and everyone else being brand new; but I think there's more to it than 3S, and its faster... Plus there's balanced bosses that are playable... You can't beat that!!!