Blade Symphony is a 3rd person fast-paced dueling game by the team who made Dystopia, a HL2 mod. It's currently in Steam's Early Access program as an alpha product.
The gameplay looks to be simple to learn, hard to master. Basically you attack using 3 stances (that you can chain together): light, balanced and heavy. If your swords clash (i.e. you hit at roughly the same time), the one with the heavier stance will do damage. To mix it up, there are several moves that you can do. You can do jump attacks, roll, side step, etc. You can also charge by holding down the attack button. Charging increases your movement speed, and your stance, whether light, balanced or heavy, will be faster. To counter this, you can use your throwing weapon (a shuriken I think?), which will damage anyone who's busy doing something, e.g. charging, attacking or rolling/jumping/dodging but will be blocked by someone either not doing anything (moving is fine) or blocking. The shuriken animation takes forever though, so you can't do it to disrupt someone's combo.
It looks really skill-based, and could be pretty interesting.
Force's "Check Out..." video
Game webpage
As I said, it's up on Steam's Early Access. You can buy in for 14.99 USD.
The gameplay looks to be simple to learn, hard to master. Basically you attack using 3 stances (that you can chain together): light, balanced and heavy. If your swords clash (i.e. you hit at roughly the same time), the one with the heavier stance will do damage. To mix it up, there are several moves that you can do. You can do jump attacks, roll, side step, etc. You can also charge by holding down the attack button. Charging increases your movement speed, and your stance, whether light, balanced or heavy, will be faster. To counter this, you can use your throwing weapon (a shuriken I think?), which will damage anyone who's busy doing something, e.g. charging, attacking or rolling/jumping/dodging but will be blocked by someone either not doing anything (moving is fine) or blocking. The shuriken animation takes forever though, so you can't do it to disrupt someone's combo.
It looks really skill-based, and could be pretty interesting.
Force's "Check Out..." video
Game webpage
As I said, it's up on Steam's Early Access. You can buy in for 14.99 USD.
Also, getting hit by the first of his attacks will ensure that (in the hands of a decent player) he lands his entire chain of attacks. He also has the unique potential of being able to follow up on a shuriken hit at range by dashing into melee range and landing an attack before the shuriken stagger wears off. Out of all the characters, I feel like he has the most potential in skilled hands, but because of his spammy nature he gets picked up by a lot of new players as well, and to good effect.
