To be fair, it was always priced accordingly, and it wasn't in "early access", even though they still had something to deliver there. What they delivered for the story mode for this game had some really neat ideas that I'd love to see other fighting games steal from them. It also lacked a compelling call to action and got bogged down with traversable area maps with NPCs that you could talk to for no benefit or interesting story reasons.

Crowdfunding-driven projects often have depressing fates, but probably not even a partial result would have existed if not for that.

Feels like if it was not for that Evo drama at the year they were selected as one of the competing games, maybe they would have sold well enough to finish.