man i was gonna agree with your post and then came the "cartoony" thing again.
At this point im convinced someone pays people to post this.
What about this entire thing made you go "cartoon"?
Seriously what?
The clsoest would actually be the moving objects around.
And plaese, PLEASE stop this nonsesne with "effects when you hit someone is bad" stuff.
no.
Western games suffer greatly from not knowing how to make melee combat feel good.
For Honor and Vermintide are starting to get the hang of stuff games like Dark Souls and Dragons Dogma have known for ages.
No, floaty feeling, low impact combat is not disreable