Ya i know, it still feels painfully slow because of the animation. heck in the real world i could attack alot more often then they do in the game with a sword.
As for finding the patches, i looked, but they dont seem to be releasing them for public download. i did find an update for the patcher here
http://vnboards.ign.com/site_news/b23044/99918559/p1/ though, which may help.