Wow.
WOW.
I never thought I'd say this, but the Samurai.. are VERY FUN now.
I was sick and tired of never being able to play them due to my controller limitations, so I made a whole new controller layout for my Xpadder program set JUST for the Samurai. I switched the WASD to the D-pad, I switched the mouse buttons to the triggers, I switched the jump button (a second W button because it was extremely finicky to get GG2 to recognize it when I was pressing multiple directional buttons which are needed for the dash), and I placed the dash under my right thumbstick aim. With all that done, I found them to be extremely agile, extremely powerful, and extremely FUN. I actually managed to kick moderate amounts of ass with him, and ACTUALLY managed to hold my own against Vein's Vault Boy for a time (until he got a gauss gun and sledge at least)! I still think that the mouse should determine where the character dashes to, like Honda's headbutt.
However.
Even with the controls now fixed for me, Jack's parry was still too hard to do. It depends too much on your connection speed, since it's based on blocking a shot RIGHT before it hits you. I managed to get it done twice and that was it, due to me having a very slow internet connection, grade F when I checked it on that connection speed ranker site thing.
But that's a different story for Afro!
I swear, his dashcut is so damn FUN! I was able to slash Vein RIGHT out of the air with one of the most badass motherfucking moves I've EVER done in GG2. I diagonal-dashed up into the air after a double jumping Vein Vault Boy, and in MID-AIR, did a dashcut on him that sent him and copious amounts of blood flying in all directions. That was so... so.... awesome.