Samus's crawl attack doesn't work if you switch crawl directions

[Terradrius]

Basically, it goes like this - whichever direction you start crawling in is the only direction you can do the morph ball attack in. If your joystick is pointing the other direction, you do a dtilt. This looks and feels weird, and I assume it's a bug, or at least not entirely intentional.

Repro steps:
Face left, and start crawling.
Change direction and start crawling right.
Attack - you do a dtilt rather than the morph ball charge.

 

[Shell]

Hi Terradrius, this isn't a bug, per se -- all crawl attacks only work traveling forwards. While I understand that an argument can be made that Samus's front and reverse crawls are very similar looking, we decided to just leave it a forwards for now based upon the currently established Crawl Tilt precedent.

 

[Terradrius]

Cool, fair enough.

 

[Rick Rockmann]

Hi Terradrius, this isn't a bug, per se -- all crawl attacks only work traveling forwards. While I understand that an argument can be made that Samus's front and reverse crawls are very similar looking, we decided to just leave it a forwards for now based upon the currently established Crawl Tilt precedent.

Just as some feedback, if this does stay, maybe there could be some kind of visual cue for which way samus is actually facing when she crawls? It'd definitely make this feel less odd.