would like to hear more from the people who hated Wonderful 101 to understand what they disliked about it. Was it the control scheme, the enemy encounters or some forced sections like the motorcycle sequence in Bayonetta ?
As someone who never touched it but really wanna play it on something not called the Wii U I'm curious to see if the issues would affect me.
Tons of things. But from what I remember the most: enemy's tells are not clear, the system of sharp/spike doesn't make sense conceptually and visually, the camera is often too far away to understand the details, but you can't have it closer because then you wouldn't be able to see the whole battle field, so it's not like there's any solution that wouldn't require a massive rethinking of the core of the game.
And then, there's everything that's not combat.
That's on top of every terrible thing that Kamiya loves in his games, such as the annoying hidden areas for power-ups that are still required to do even afterwards get a good grade (similar to Bayonetta), with the game rating expecting you to find them all, remember them all when you try to get a good score, but also go as fast as possible through the level. Which is made worse by Kamiya's other kink, locking most of the move set in the shop for you to unlock. It's ever worse in this game because the most basic gameplay actions that are "guard" and "dodge" (along with a few others) are locked there for non-negligible sums, so you need a lot of money before you can even start having fun.
It's not at all indicated, so it's very easy to miss. I didn't understand that the spring was the dodge and played for a while without buying it, struggling a lot because I thought that's how the game was supposed to be played, and then I still had to farm a level a few time to buy them.
It's not a matter of "getting gud", it's a matter of the game doing everything it can to prevent you from having fun with it.
Even once everything is unlocked, the game keeps going at its own pace without bothering to check that you're still following. I tried several times to play it, waiting 6 months, coming back to it (I had bought the WiiU for that game, it had to be good!) but after over a year I just watched the damn thing on Youtube.
