To me a while to get a hang of it, but once I did it was really good. Looked really nice, animations flowed together nicely and overall felt really good to play.
I had an issue where I kept trying to sidestep using up/down dpad, the 3d environment and the automatic rotation of the fighting plane really made it feel like you should be able to. Took me a while to realize this is not tekken, and once i learned to to roll through my opponent instead this was not as much of an issue.