Well, I haven't played it in ages as well, as more better fighting games appeared in my collection XD (lately the only one I play frequently is Playstation All-Stars |3) but I can say from experiance that certain things never change XD (and some do, lately I started maining Hakumen over Taokaka and Arakune, and I'm still trying to learn to play as Makoto properly |D)

As for the charas, well, the only downside is that I'd still prefer Kokonoe and Jubei over these two any day... well, Terumi doesn't look so bad, though his new look kinda says "yo dawg, I'mma gangsta" as for Sasuke Kagura, the more I learn about him, the more I hate the guy... he's a clear copy of Sasuke Uchiha, he's said to have different stances as his Drive, which was supposed to be Jubei's Drive, hinting Jubei will not be playable, and to top it all off the "He is a charge character with only two special moves: a projectile and an anti-air" part makes him an obvious Guile clone... damn, Arc just keeps getting more and more "original" (not to mention, with BlazBlue's pace, a charger character is suicide, not to mention he's going to be almost in permanent negative state because you have to hold backwards to charge...)

Roger that.