Sclash

unfortunately the host for the online servers went down and so online does not work at all. will update this if fixed but people should be forewarned before purchasing

Beautiful samurai fighting game. The art is the main star of the show, and I found myself taking screenshots of basically every cut scene. Using one as my background for now! The story was interesting and the characters were passable. There was reasonable challenge once you got used to the controls and if you want deeper challenge there are additional story mode modifiers such as 'one life,' 'relax mode,' and 'time attack.' With that said the game has an obvious focus on being a 1v1 fighting game. If you have a friend to play with in couch co-op and you like the one hit style then that's fine. Playing against the computers is a bit boring after a while and I mostly just did it for a few of the achievements. There is online play but I was not able to find a single match, and many of the achievements revolve around online play so if you are into 100% games you likely won't be able to with this one. Overall, a mechanically decent and visually beautiful game that you can play through in ...

Very clunky controls.

Sclash is genuinely an awful game, and of the countless games in my library this is one of the very few that I actively regret spending money on. The game has a brushstroke art style that is nice in theory, but as you can see in the screenshots, unless the game is zoomed out it looks so washed out and unappealing. The issue also is that characters don't have any outline, and therefor they don't stick out from the environment, which is just bad design. The particle effects don't look good, hit effects with Katakana just feels weird to look at, and animations are clunky. Speaking of clunky, the gameplay is decidedly clunky AND un-enjoyable. You have 4 moves in the game. A dodge, an attack (chargeable), a pommel strike and a parry. Parries will cancel enemy offence, pommel strikes interrupt attacks and drain extra stamina with a range drawback, dodges avoid attacks but give nothing, and attacks are attacks. What makes the gameplay so un-enjoyable is that everything is slow and therefor...

For Honor if it was actually good