Two handed animations for two handed weapons. Possible?

[Ooshima]

Well I wouldn't expect a game released in 2000 to have superb animations

You have a point there.

With the coming of PS2, PS3 and now PS4, there are greater expectation on movement animations and fluidity, which often, designers look back at physics, aerodynamics and maybe they even have stuntmen trying out stuffs and actions and review them to see which is nice, which is not.

Which I firmly believe that if you hold a staff using 2 hands, it is a huge minus to movement capabilities and fluidity.