I've heard this over and over again that they intended the game to be played 'e-style', rolling around shooting, pulling out sword and slashing then dashing away etc, generally staying on the ground, but is that true ? surely when they were coding the game they would have realized that you could dash while jumping, slash while dashing, block just after slashing etc, or at least why they first tested the game out they would have tried things like jump-dash-slash, or slash-block, repeat ? then they would have seen that even that could lead to a different kind of play style ( not saying they would have discovered bf or ss ).