Went through the Story mode with four or five more characters. Takes about twenty each time. There’s always a sticking point. The worst characters for me to play against are Ayane, Hitomi and, curiously, Bass. And Alpha, obviously, but she’s not as bad as I’ve been led to believe.

Then I tried Survival mode a few times. Best was five wins and about 920,000 points. I’m at 80,000 in the world-wide ranking now, out of 105,000 people.