One more thing, at about 12:12, Halsin as bear dashes and I don't think there's a big build up to it. The fact dash animations took so long was an, admittedly relatively minor, bugbear of mine in EA. Dare I hope that might have been changed?
Good catch !
I would like to hope so too.
At the moment, there's still the possibility that this is just because he's in Bear form, and the game doesn't have the ridiculously long Dash animations for animal forms. There's also (non-exclusively) the possibility that it's because he's not a creature controlled by the player, and only those play the lengthy Dash animation when using the Dash action. And there's the possibility that, indeed, Larian decided to finally cut down on this (which would be really great). If that's the case, I hope that Jump also received an animation length cut.
