(cw: gore) Half Sword launches its Early Access ($20) on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

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Completely worth 3x the price. It's the best fighting game I've played. Everything from weapons to armour to body parts are accurately modeled, with physics-based combat instead of scripted animations. There's already a modding community growing around it.

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Normally I really dislike wacky waving inflatable tube man-style games. Initially Half Sword kind of turned me off until I realised that the wonky movements are depicting mass, something that just isn't in any other game I can think of outside of Mount and Blade to a much lesser extent. Now I'm a graceful as a ballet dancer when I'm mutilating enemies with a billhook. I can aim it just right, swing it just right, and hit with the amount of force I want to sweep a leg or break it. It's so deceptively crude for the most detailed fighting game I've played.

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