Real talk, they just need to wholesale rip the combo grading system out of Devil May Cry, apply some Skullgirls-isms to it and adapt it into a fighter.
- "Style ranking" changed to a general 3 strike judgement system. Instead of hitstun decay, you have timing decay. Increased duration of a combo slowly degrades the combo with the game expressing itself with a visual "Wrap it up box" like the hitsparks changing from Blue/Green to Yellow to Red.
- Combo started with a bounce or soft/hard knockdown style tactic get graded in the yellow as the following confirm is easier from these type of moves.
- If you continue to combo while you've hit the red or in other words maxed out your time, did cheesy shit during your combo (which speeds up the degradation of the combo/change in states between your confirm and the danger zone), or used multiple bounce or differing knockdown style moves, your opponent that has been put into movie mode gets a player controlled choice between letting it play out or interfering with the combo via Burst or more optimally a Guard Cancel vSav style, etc. Hell maybe you could do it like grooves and have a pick your poison before the match between a neutral non-damaging burst, a high HSD style flip out a la UMVC3, or VSav like Guard Cancels.
I'm very fond of the idea behind bursts because it adds another layer of reading habits/tendencies and tension to a situation, but I feel like there's ways to make it even more welcome and exciting without adding difficulty to the aggressor in landing their hit confirm.
This is a legit no-no.
