Visually Appealing
Messing up with Yoko's backdashes is unfortunate. I don't understand why there's issue with it. But then again, I haven't tried myself.
It looks good otherwise.
It looks good otherwise.
Well, looks like I'm redoing it. Was cleaning my hard drive and forgot that I shouldn't erase all backups of prospective segments... pretty smart...
At the risk of sounding whiny, here's why I have an issue with Yoko's backdash.
The main problem is variability of timing. Unlike most movement techniques, it's not just "repeat this every 20 frames," but can vary a lot depending on if you're going downhill or uphill, and how high you jump. On flat ground, ideally, I only hit the jump button as short a time as possible, giving Yoko a very small jump, so she can repeat the backdashing very quickly. The problem is that if this is going well, but I accidentally hold jump longer than usual, the jump is now longer, and so my timing gets thrown off, the L doesn't register since Yoko's in the air, but will have landed by the time I hit jump again. Messing up on this is really easy, or rather, it's hard to do it perfectly.
On slopes, it's the same issue. Uphill's generally no problem, landing earlier means you have less chance of missing a backdash (although sometimes I'll jump higher to clear more of the slope, which can throw off my rhythm). Downhill is a problem though. Yoko stays in the air longer, and it's hard to gauge exactly when she'll land (especially since she starts slowing down after a certain length of time), and this is what happened near the end, I just misjudged when she'd land. The second one in that room was me being dumb and not depressing L fully.
So yeah, that's pretty much my issue with it, I could just be bad at timing, but since no one else has really tried, I can't really say.
At the risk of sounding whiny, here's why I have an issue with Yoko's backdash.
The main problem is variability of timing. Unlike most movement techniques, it's not just "repeat this every 20 frames," but can vary a lot depending on if you're going downhill or uphill, and how high you jump. On flat ground, ideally, I only hit the jump button as short a time as possible, giving Yoko a very small jump, so she can repeat the backdashing very quickly. The problem is that if this is going well, but I accidentally hold jump longer than usual, the jump is now longer, and so my timing gets thrown off, the L doesn't register since Yoko's in the air, but will have landed by the time I hit jump again. Messing up on this is really easy, or rather, it's hard to do it perfectly.
On slopes, it's the same issue. Uphill's generally no problem, landing earlier means you have less chance of missing a backdash (although sometimes I'll jump higher to clear more of the slope, which can throw off my rhythm). Downhill is a problem though. Yoko stays in the air longer, and it's hard to gauge exactly when she'll land (especially since she starts slowing down after a certain length of time), and this is what happened near the end, I just misjudged when she'd land. The second one in that room was me being dumb and not depressing L fully.
So yeah, that's pretty much my issue with it, I could just be bad at timing, but since no one else has really tried, I can't really say.
