On paper it had some good ideas, but the overreliance on charged special attacks makes them impractical to use much of the time, and the blatant cheating by the CPU exacerbates it even further. The most egregious example of such being how you require "Inner Strength" to use special moves, but a computer-controlled opponent is free to spam them as much as they want, even with a blatantly empty IS gauge.
Still, credit where it's due:
EC is much better at being a fighting game than
X-Perts is at being a beat 'em up. Larcen's game was fairly decent, but Shadow deserved
way better than this crude, fugly little spinoff.