Question Stumped on how to create a Mario style 3D Camera with Cinemachine

Hey all, been trying to learn Cinemachine as I realized it's an insanely powerful tool for Unity, and I've been challenging myself to create a camera system like the one seen in 3D Super Mario games.

As for my current progress, I've implemented a basic character controller but I'm running into an issue with the Cinemachine camera, though I think I already have most of the the work done (I think)

Basically moving from a diagonal input straight to a completely forward one makes my character awkwardly drift forward as seen here:

Here's some reference footage explaining what I would prefer for it to look like (at 0:29 seconds in, you can see Mario go from a diagonal to a completely forward input much more comfortably)

I would really appreciate some help on this, thanks