- the cancel window from one stage of Sanrensatsu to the next seems very strict, both by SS standards and CvS standards, you can look at Kyo or Iori's rekkas for reference.

- Jumping slashes FX continue to play after you land if you do it close to the ground, it looks very weird because the attack didn't come out, but the slash FX did.

- his back throw animation looks very very odd, he seems to turn around but then he's on the same side, if you look at how it's done on SSV: Special it looks much better there.

- the sword stays in front of P2 on Hyakkisatsu success animation, you could crop the sword in a different animation and spawn a helper / explod to make it look like it goes through the enemy.

- he goes below the ground when bouncing from a knockdown

- his crouching HP is extremely fast for the range and damage it does, I think some balancing is necessary there.

- I think close MP should be special cancellable, that's just my personal opinion, not a flaw with the character.

-While using something like SSV as a guideline for range and priority of attacks and his overall clsns is cool, I advise against using them exactly from said game. None of the chars use their hitboxes from another specific/respective game in CvS. The pacing is different. SS is a slower, poking, high risk/high reward kinda game. CvS is Capcom based. Faster, more combo oriented. You'll have to adjust the char overall to reflect that, so in sync, his hitboxes should follow suit. A approximation of a CvS theme is what you're striving for after all.

-Back roll has no invulnerability.

-Projectiles are not restricted properly:

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His slow animation will not make up for this.

-Dodge kick variant leads to invalid state:

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-DP has no invulnerability on startup, or any type of clsns mapping to compensate. Which means you won't be using this for any type of interrupting. Also, HP version just flies over most people's heads. The damage on these attacks aren't very good either. Disregard the first part. Clsns are mapped to give him priority on startup.

-Should use CvS slash whiff and sword guard SFX for sword attacks.

-A suggestion: Instead of neutral j.HP having an alternate animation, while having j.MK/HK being the same thing, just slightly sped up for HK; Using that anim for his j.HK would give him more variety and give the player incentive to use at least one of his jump kick attacks. Cause as they are now, they're not very good.

-Why is stand far HP basically 100 damage stronger than close HP? I know far attacks should be stronger than close, but that's quite a boost. On that note, close stand LP/LK cause the same damage as their far variants. Also, you have another odd damage spike with close/far stand MP(32/70).

Feels good for the most part. Can't really get a full picture until he's further along. Though you have a solid/strong foundation and that's where it all starts.

- I partially agree with you on this, and I'll try to look into it towards the final release mainly because I'm not really sure on how to handle hitboxes. It's true that none of CvS characters use the hitboxes from source, but I honestly don't get the criteria behind on how Capcom adapted them. I mean, they make the game from scratch, don't really think that there's that much criteria. For now the hitboxes are functional enough, and my gameplay design is not good enough to pull hitboxes out of my ass and have a good result.

Now let's be clear on something. While it's true that CvS is faster and more combo oriented, Haohmaru playstyle in CvS is not. At least not if you want to play him in an optimal way. Maybe that's why he's kinda bad even having a solid match up agaisnt Sagat. He's more about pokes than specials and comboing, with a high risk/high reward kinda game (just like you descrived SS). Haohmaru honestly feels like he's a character from a different game, which is good IMO (nearly every character from SSVSP feel like they come from another game due to their stupid gimmicks, and that's what makes SSVSP one of my favourite fightning games of all times). I tried to speed up most of Genjuro's stuff by comparing his moves to the two adaptations of Haohmaru (in terms of velocities, frame data and damage). As a result Genjuro should feel just like Haohmaru in terms of slow gameplay.

- He's supposed to have invul on the top part of his body, ye. Actually that's how HP version works in source, he just flies over regular standing opponents (I think he can hit gedo). The move has really good range and fast startup but goes over most of the standing characters, which is why LP version is way more useful. In SvC the move works very differently, but I'm trying to avoid using SvC as reference mainly because I hate that crappy game and love SamSho V haha. About damage, the move does tiny damage on source but I'll look into it.

- With whiff you mean the woosh sounds of snd's Group 2? I'm using the same as POTS Nakoruru. Added sword guard sfx.

You might have play this beta and feel that a lot of things are out of place, that's because this is my very first character and while I'm having a lot of fun, some things are quite hard to get into.

Would also be really cool if someone comes up with any idea of special intros agaisnt Sagat (scar thing), Iori (red hair thing) and Haohmaru (rival thing) using existing sprites.