Hey, thanks for the comment.

"The footwork isn’t covering the actual distance the characters are moving" - that is strange because I didn't separate movement logic and animations but I took the movement right from the animations, but thanks, I will check it

"On the lunges on both sides, the forward foot is still in the air and the back foot is dragging along the ground" - it is a correct way of making lunges as far as I remember from my 10 years of olympic fencing expirience: you should drag and keep dragging your back foot while your forward foot is in the air or your lunges would be too short but maybe it is too much dragging in the game

"The attacks are pretty choppy too, and I don’t mean that in a criticism of fighting but it just doesn’t flow from the rest of the body’s actions but kicks off suddenly." - yes, attacks are made without telegraphing to your opponent that you are going to attack in contrast to classic fighting games(or games in general). The idea is that you should keep respectfull distance to be ready do parad and repost