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i might be using 'hype' pretty liberally in some of these cases.

SoulCalibur III - Hype Level: High. SoulCalibur II was a huge favorite and I'm pretty sure this was my first instance of hype for a game release. The fact that they included a black guy with a scythe was a huge source of the hype because I thought that was the coolest thing ever and pledged to main him. Somewhat dampened by not owning a PS2 at the time so I knew the chances of me being able to play it soon after release was not high. But hype persevered. Until the game came out and reports that it had a save glitch that would corrupt your ENTIRE MEMORY CARD. I guess I always just assumed that digital data would be permanent so that news just blew my mind. Got around to playing it a while later after buying a new memory card to specifically use for just this game because I was paranoid. Definitely did not deliver on the little bit of hype I had kept alive until I was able to play it. Slower paced than II, chock full of glitches and forgettable side characters shoehorned in from the single player mode, baffling changes to movesets of certain characters. The game felt like it was permeated by this glossy drabness where everything seemed like cheap imitations where things looked "better" but felt worse.

Brawl - Hype Level: Maximum. Obvious one but the disappointment was placated by never actually buying it myself since I didn't have a Wii. Then I realized I just got swallowed up by everyone else's hype even though I didn't particularly care about any of the new character additions and hated the third party additions.

SoulCalibur II HD Online - Hype Level: High. Attached to the hope of the game becoming competitively relevant again since at the time it originally was, I had no knowledge of the scene. Mixed emotions because while most of the gameplay aspects were faithfully retained, the "online" portion of the game fucking sucked and it was pretty bold of them to include "Online" in the official title in store listings. No lobbies and you had to literally send the person you were playing an invitation after ONE fucking game every time. And netcode was not even good. And it was $20!!

Persona 4 Ultimate 2/Arena Ultimax - Hype Level: High to Moderate. MORE PERSONA CHARACTERS. There were a lot of minor things that contributed to the lowering of hype as the release neared though. The game being out for a long time in Japan prior to NA release, shittalk about the game from various top players, the fucking color scheme, the goddamn hit effect noise, shadow characters being bullshit, etc.

Zero Time Dilemma - Hype Level: High to Moderate. After news of financial difficulty or whatever and the sentiment that this was not going ever see the light of day after the way VLR ended, hype when the announcement for this came was pretty high. All the characters looked so fucking sick. The game was okay I guess.

Persona 5 - weird one since after all the delays I convinced myself I wasn't hyped for it any more and even after the TAKE YO HEART edition got delivered on release date, I didn't touch it for like two days. Did play it and was amazing though.

Others with less amount of hype:
Persona Q - eh
Persona 4 Dancing - ok
Guilty Gear Xrd - ok
Mortal Kombat 9 - ok
Tomb Raider 2013 - ok
BlazBlue ChronoPhantasma - ok
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