This game was always something of a hard sell, and it now feels like yet another case where developers/publishers misread their market, to the detriment of both the game and consumers.

The developers have clearly put their focus on making a competitive serious anime/Vs-style fighter, just with a not-My Little Pony theme. The problem is that the "competitive serious" fighting game audience was always going to largely ignore this title because of its theme, while the audience drawn in by the theme were not going to be served by focusing exclusively on relatively bare competitive play.

This has culminated in the final blow. The long promised Story mode has been cancelled, with game development ending after the final Season 1 Pass character is released. As an extra insult, rather than giving this cancellation its own announcement, it was instead tacked onto the end of a news post about DLC characters and Patch Notes. It is also worth mentioning that the Steam store page continues to list the Story mode (and its continued development) as one of the key features of the game, while the Store page for the Shanty character DLC continues to list that owners of that DLC would receive an additional Story chapter.

This game was always something of a hard sell, and it now feels like yet another case where developers/publishers misread their market, to the detriment of both the game and consumers. The developers have clearly put their focus on making a competitive serious anime/Vs-style fighter, just with a not-My Little Pony theme. The problem is that the "competitive serious" fighting game audience was always going to largely ignore this title because of its theme, while the audience drawn in by the theme were not going to be served by focusing exclusively on relatively bare competitive play. This has culminated in the final blow. The long promised Story mode has been cancelled, with game development ending after the final Season 1 Pass character is released. As an extra insult, rather than giving this cancellation its own announcement, it was instead tacked onto the end of a news post about DLC characters and Patch Notes. It is also worth mentioning that the Steam store page continues to list the Story mode (and its continued development) as one of the key features of the game, while the Store page for the Shanty character DLC continues to list that owners of that DLC would receive an additional Story chapter.