I'd kind of understand your point about memorizing moves if we were talking about Tekken, which has over 50 characters with over 100 moves each, but SF? Memorizing your character's moveset isn't that bad.

It's true that Capcom in-game tutorials have always been horrible, but their games are very popular, and the amount of external resources available for these games is tremendous. If you really wanted to learn one of their games, you could spend 30 seconds going to google and finding a ton of excellent tutorials.

Probably since it's just the beginning, but normal mode looks pretty weak. I don't see that the player is really punished for leaving himself out in the open, since he can just absorb bullets. But I did just skim.. I'm pretty spoiler-sensitive.

Mostly disc releases. You can order them online from play-asia or solaris japan or something.

If people want to ignore the demeaning joke, there's still the complete douche move of getting someone who has no idea how to play on stage, getting pummeled in a style of game that takes a lot of work to be good at, AND get trash-talked in the process.