New character announcements lose their hype when it's nothing but Fire Emblem characters and more human characters with swords... We could have gotten more unique characters like K. Rool, Paper Mario, Krystal, Rayman, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shantae, but no, we had to get more
generic sword wielders... I would have been real excited for Cloud, but his moveset is nothing special.
The only drawback is that some of the more
generic weapons, such as
swords and spears, are used by a wide number of officers, so characters such as Sun Jian and Xiahou Dun (both
sword -
wielders) have very similar movesets if equipped with their default weapon, while they had uniquely tailored ones in the pre-DW6 games.