Flashy combos make a game very scrubby. Take the VS series for eg. Rather than complimenting gameplay, those dial combos make the whole game revolve around them. I'm used to Final Fantasy, bare with me. I mean...Omnislash was flashy, and it didn't make FF7 scrubby... huh Omnislash is not flashy. Knights of the round is flashy. Well you get the point.