Sounds pretty damn cool to be honest, only thing I'm worried about is how the gameplay will actually turn out.

Think about how a current match works. Players move, they pause for a second to take in how they moved and how their opponent is currently moving then move on the correct their joints according to what they want to do.

If you switch the gameplay over to real time matches then you take away that pause to consider what they want to do. Without that pause people will be rushing to move joints more to just keep their self from dq'ing and not really trying to fight the opponent.

In games like shooter games the real time play style is fine, because a player doesn't have to manage their entire body. If they want to move forward they just press the joystick or w key and move forward. In toribash you have to move multiple joints to begin to move forwards then readjust them after a few frames to complete the movement. The amount of information processing a player has to do for toribash is significantly larger than ordinary games.

So while this idea is VERY FUCKING COOL its an idea that will be very stressful on players, especially new players. You can make the argument that the fast pace will be appealing to new players, but at the same time it will also be stressful and possibly cause them to quit since they don't know how to move their body at all yet and expecting them to do it in real time is just too tall of an order.

If this idea where to be implemented it would have to be for veteran players who understand how to move their tori at will and can lower the amount of processing thats required to figure out what they want to do and how to do it.

Don't get me wrong though, I support this idea, just saying there is a lot more that needs to be worked out before we can consider it doable.