It's got some cute ideas, but. pressing a diagonal input just halting you in place is REALLY bad. Even if you can't move diagonally, it needs a priority system to maintain what you were just doing or something; just halting in place when you need to dodge something and getting hit for it feels pretty bad. And getting hit because you hit something and got meter, causing your hitbox to expand into the thing you just hit is just... misfortune.