Fighting system is badass. There's 5 difference stances, each with its own purposes and difficulty.
Water stance - dual blades - For when there's big masses to shred through, it's the most musou-like stance, dodging and spamming attacks based. Cuts through hordes but is weak against individual enemies, enemies with armor, and bosses.
Earth stance - single blade. The most souls like, relies on blocking, and timing blocks to initiate parries. If you detect patterns of blockable attacks by bosses, you can switch instantly to a sekiro-like stance where you have to exactly time the counters to the attacks or get punished. One of my favorites. Some boss fights (samurai duels, usually) are only winnable by earth stance.
Fire stance - dual blades. the easy mode. Berserker, god of war style stance. Very effective, but the most boring to play. Still has its times.
Wind stance - single blade .Hard but rewarding, magic based. It's anti mage, anti armor, and shreds through bosses, but you have to build up a succession of normal attacks, like a 10 attack combo, to be able to unleash some badass magic attacks.
Void stance - dual blades. Probably my favorite. By far the hardest stance. Lighting fast, anime like attacks all over the place, but if you get hit, you get weaker and slower. The key to this stance is to avoid getting hit and maintain 100% health. Just unlocked it and having a blast with it. It's extremely powerful and cool looking, you just gotta avoid getting hit. Even at 80% HP bar you would be slower and less powerful.
You can also summon servants, each with their own set of skills, that you can unlock, play as temporarily when maxxing out certain gauges, and unleashing Noble Phantasms - ultimate tier attacks. Each servant has its own skill tree, and each fighting stance has its own skill tree. Highly customizable and more overpowered the more you delve into each skill tree.
This is seriously some good shit. Further playthroughs unlock more parts of the story, probably alternate endings as well, so I'll probably be NG+5 'ing the fuck out of this.
Again, highly recommended for any fans of melee combat games (souls, musou, god of war, dmc, no more heroes, this has a bit of everything). I'm also curious of what other sherdoggers would think of it. I'm fanboying hard on this one.
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