There are plenty of mods for PM with half-baked characters that the announcer just calls 'SPECIAL'. Is this another one of those?
No, Project Plus isn't
half-baked at all. It's just as polished as any of the previous Project M revisions.
I can't give a comprehensive review for a couple of reasons. First, I don't own a PC powerful enough to run the Dolphin emulator so I've only experienced the lite version of Project+ on real Wii hardware. Second, to get my fighting game fix nowadays I've mostly turned to Street Fighter V on the PS4 or 1990's era 16-bit fighting games via emulation.
By the way, Street Fighter V is a free treat this month for PlayStation Plus subscribers.
On the topic of retro: Recently I took a 10 year old desktop Dell PC and set it up primarily for SNES and Genesis fighting games. Running the Snes9x and Kega Fusion emulators respectively to play such classics as Super Street Fighter II and Weaponlord. Both look better than ever thanks to BRZ shaders - those plugins almost make them look like modern games. I even ordered this sweet Sega Saturn replica USB controller specifically for 90's era fighting games. Needless to say, I'm in heaven!
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