You can't see much of anything because you've not played it. Yeah, arial dodge, no direction. They compensated, you can arial and from what I understand up b if you've not used it after the dodge. Okay, less mind game with it being taken out, more mind games with the compensation. The only reason I could see this being a problem is loyalty to the origonal version.... which is a bit stubborn, considering everyone should understand this is a different game, just as 64 is.. I can't see this being a good thing.
I love what I see so far, I DONT LIKE totally owning my friends that don't play much all the time because I do tournaments and know the advanced techs, because they're less apt to play with me. I WANT someone to pull off an awesome mid air 10 hit combo on me out of nowhere, because that's just plain cool. From the impressions gimpy and the others have given us, it doesn't matter if there are NO techs, it's going to be fun, and I prioritize fun over complication.