Moving swiftly along, hey Cybaster......
.... You partially win this one. Noroko BARELY saved this game. She's got some funny shit. She's also the closest thing to a shoto (ryu/ken) in this game. I actually enjoyed playing her, though everyone else in the game pretty much blew. The music was great, the effects are awesome, but this is a fighting game dude. What pretty designs the package comes with doesn't make up for the contents.
See, this is more the type of post I'm looking for (not the fact that I "partially win"). You tested the game, saw what it had to offer. As said by Insanius, and it's quite obvious, the game is not the for hardcore fighting games experts, with very strict timing and impossible commands (hello KOF Geese and K'9999), but more for the casual gamer, with nice graphics (to me) and sweet artwork, music, etc.
It's fun, original, can bring some minutes or hours of play, makes you smile or whatever, hence it did its job. No need to learn 50 hours how to play a character (à la Virtua Fighter), since it's not what it was meant to. Anyway, case closed.
PS : for a guy who's playing fighting games as a living, why the hell don't you play KOF !? Go buy KOF 98UM or 2K2UM. Now !