Your initial impressions are still very valuable to me. I'm very into melee and surrounded by people very into melee, so it's not always easy to get that perspective. I want to broaden the audience for the game whilst keeping the mechanics true to melee.
Yes everything is like melee, the character is pretty much a mashup of a few different melee characters.
Thank you again for playing, and yes I hope to make the combat much more interesting than whats in this demo