Quote Originally Posted by Hazama999 View Post
Never played 1.0 but from what I've seen, I really liked the animations in general. Things like running and your character stopping with adequate momentum. Shifting your weight as you're about to make a turn. That kind of thing. Everything else can burn... which it did, technically.
The devs explained why they removed that.

If they continued with that animation our current battle system would not work as timing is everything in a fight.