Backdashing

Lady Corrington · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: Backdashing

It's not very useful in actual combat anymore. In Harmony, it was completely useful. In Aria, it was there simply because Harmony had it, and the same goes for every game since. Symphony's was pretty useful, but that AWFUL SCRAPING SOUND!! It drove me crazy.

Point is, it's really only useful in avoiding traps, which don't occur much anymore.

So I think the backdash should be dropped.

What about you?
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Nightmare · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

Nothing should be dropped, if only because it improves the games aesthetics and is just there for the sake of making the heroes look awesome.

End of discussion.

Creeping shadow · Lair Staff/ Lookout Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 542

I found it fairly useless as well.

They should give the heroes Julius's ghost dash thingy from AoS.

Nightmare · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

Wing of Faith · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:

The only way Backdash would be cool is if we saw a SIMON BACKDASH.

I agree with Shadow. The ghost dash Julius had should be the new standard.

While we're on the dashing topic, what about Juste's forward dash in Harmony? I'd love to see that come back.
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Alec · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

Juste's forward dash made things way too easy. Ergo, it should be a new standard, in keeping with Iga's preferred difficulty.
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Nightmare · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:03 am Post subject:

But then, Julius wouldn't be so unique and "ultimate", would he?

Esperenza Grace · Chieftain Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 166

When was Julius "Ultimate"?

I don't recall that!
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Nightmare · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:52 am Post subject:

Because you're brain-dead.

Warrior of the Dark Moon · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

Juste's backdash was the last useful one in the series.
Backdash can still work, but here's what Konami needs to do to make it successful:

A.) They need to make it easier to do multiple backdashes in succession

or

B.) They need to make the backdash cover MUCH more distance in a single shot

These are the only two ways I can see a backdash being successful again.
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Nightmare · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:35 am Post subject:

Or they can make the enemy patterns wicked, so that you'd NEED to backdash.

Lovely Mai · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

It should be dropped. It really should.
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MiyanFu848 · High Priest/Priestess Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 70

backdashing has NEVER been useful, and there's no point to having it besides OOH! EXTRA FEATURE INCLUDED FOR NO GOOD REASON!!

yeah. Drop it, please.