Makoto is out a little early thanks to PSN (the 360 version was supposed to be tomorrow), so I tried her out...and I can't use her at all.

As an offensive rusher who should never block, she should be perfectly suited for me. Yet somehow I just can't get a grasp on her timing. I've got the her Impact Drive figured out, and I can do all the moves (except Parry!!), but whatever it is that I need to make her work, I just can't seem to get it to flow. Not like the way Litchi flows for me, or Rachel did in CT.

She feels a little bit broken though. Like Hazama, she has a Distortion that is more or less instant-on. But worse is that with Hazama, you could at least get a split-second to block when his sigil manifests. Not so with Makoto. Once her Distortion activates, you can't even move. It feels really unfair compared to a lot of other characters with interruptible Distortions.

For CS, I suppose I'm going to stick with Litchi as my main, and try to learn Tsubaki. Rachel is a lost cause and Makoto just doesn't have that same kind of flow for me.