Thanks so much for playing :D the attack actually is instant - the sword just swings down/backwards before going forwards (and all frames will harm the enemy). But I seem to be getting about 50/50 comments where people aren't loving/aren't making sense of that so I may go ahead and rework it a bit post-jam. And you're right attacking doesn't work so well while moving - another thing I'd like to add to address that post-jam is a running attack (think like Cloud's moving attack in SSBU). Thanks for the feedback though, and I'm glad you still thought the rest of the art was cool ^_^