Actually that's a really good idea that hadn't occurred to me. Generally speaking the original animations don't look so great at 60fps and with the way things work, they're very basic, and the arm is distorted so it's like a monkey arm (really short bicep, really long forearm) but it may change in the middle of the animation a little bit because it's soft animation, whereas SOM has to use a rigid animation system for its arm so it can snap equipment to sections of the arm effectively. Before the project is done every arm animation will have to be redesigned from scratch and the arm remodeled and proportions corrected and I haven't decided if I want to use a different (less generic) model based on whatever body I choose for Aleph for VR (I'm starting with the KFIII model for him but don't know if his cuffs there would be best for an arm model.)

Please consider joining the Patreon if you aren't one of the two who joined yesterday. I'd really like SOM to appear less pathetic, by show of popular support. I think Patreon is good because it forces people to get real by doing something more than texting online at least. It's a measure of something more real and I imagine it has a snowball effect in terms of people sitting on the fence being skeptical who don't understand the scope of the effort.

SOM has an automap system but it doesn't fill itself out as you go, although that would be a good addition. It's the funky looking map. The reason it's funky is the tiles need to be assigned 3x3 icons but right now they're all the same icon so you just get a sense of the shape of the map from it. You can turn this on with Alt+Alt+M but I call it a "Rescue" in the INI file because I don't think it enhances King's Field, but it's easy to get lost on maps, especially those made by novice game developers who don't appreciate how essential landmarks are to making 3D spaces navigable.

If by "KF1" you mean the sample game that comes packed in with SOM, sure I'll eventually add this to its arm model. I'm not sure when I will get around to it. It only has 3 attacks that I'd have to design counter-attack animations for that hopefully work with all kinds of weapons (it uses the same horizontal swing for Crescent Ax as for katana so it may prove difficult.) I'm slow to do upkeep work on the pack-in models, it's hard being the only person interested in developing SOM.

P.S. These extended "attack" features are just shaping up. They're going to become much more refined and elaborated over the course of the next few years or so. The Action button is fully mature by comparison, if anything it's doing too many functions, I wish that some of it could be offloaded onto the hand/attack buttons, but that will require a way to holster weapons so hands don't always swing them. The counter-attack isn't a novelty, it will be a primary way of doing sword fights that are more true to life, or true to movies. Controller vibration is coming soon and it's going to be integral to playing the game instead of just an effect. It's going to be how you can respond to situations faster than is possible by waiting for something to appear on screen and consciously responding with your controller and waiting for the response, which is all very slow and impossible, so vibration will be key to overcoming this technology/physiology loop latency problem. KF is abstract so you can think of the vibration as an abstract representation of your character's senses.

Edited: Thanks for responding BTW. You're the first legit responder. I'm always surprised how flat my work lands online. I don't know why people don't engage more and seem skeptical if anything.