Thank God for your post.
Game seems to be aiming to realism again with some of its radical.changes and New concepts. Its Just a bug fest messes up game, but the arrow is pointing to the right direction.
Thank God you cant pressure abuse, thank god You can easily miss a tackle, being dribbled or concede fouls.
Oh there are actually fouls? How dare Konami make me miss tackles and give free fouls for the opponent? We at the Arcade Lovers Community can NOT tolerante that. We dont want to think about putting players into position, read play and intercept ball, we Just want pressure abuse and easy Win the ball effortlessly.
I understand where you are coming from. My first gameplay impression was actually that its a bold, slower approach. Not at all the arcade nightmare one should expect when they would just cater to impatient youngsters looking for some hollow, fast-paced card collection game.
So, i gave it a honest chance, set up all the controls, enabled manual passing. Yet, after a few games it stil didn't click, only felt more and more unresponsive and incoherent.
Their new realism seems to be implemented in a very superficial way atm. "Lets make these animations a bit longer and make passing feel heavier". Its so basic that it makes the game feel very very generic, each player as incompetent as the other.
I am going to give it another shot tonight and see if i can understand the dribbling some more but it really feels like clutching at straws. I just cant imagine this 'game' being fun and not feeling detached.
At the end of the day, they converted a mobile game to next-gen, put some blue yellow sprinkles on it and called it a day. Worse yet, they hyped us for maybe even 5 years about their three year plan and the coming holy grail of truly next-gen football experience blabla.
How can one not be angry? If you still protect this company, if you still force yourself to focus only on 'the good', then you are suffering from a severe case of cognitive dissonance, i'm afraid.