I was really looking forward to this one. I've been a long time fan of the series and I desperately wanted to like this game so much more than I did, but the controls are absolutely abysmal. Whether it was the D-Pad, or the analogue, I just could not get the characters to respond the way I needed them to at crucial points in a fight. The former 'will' completely crucify your thumbs and any of the quarter- or semi-arc characters will be totally unreliable, which means default favourites like Ryu and Ken, are best left to the side in favour of charge characters like Guile, or Blanka. If using the analogue, it's less punishing on the thumb, but it gets so damn fiddly and you'll be jumping when you wanted to uppercut, block, or do just about anything else.
Even on easiest setting, by the time you reach M. Bison, the difficulty is still building with each fight and in such a tricky final encounter these controls will leave you infuriated, rather than satisfied.
There's a great game to be found in here and I'll hold onto my copy to play more in the future and hopefully surmount these issues, but for now I just can't bring myself to play it without getting into the right mindset. Caveat emptor!