Thanks so much for the kind words! The attack is instant, just visually the character swipes down and back before going forwards - or that's what I was trying for anyway >.> he's meant to be holding the sword backwards. A couple of people have given similar feedback though so I think maybe it isn't coming across so well in the attack frames. Oh well! I wanted to have more interesting attack animations anyway - just got hit by the time constraint so had tried to cover two directions in one!