Why Are Modern Games Obsessed With Parrying? | Semi-Ramblomatic
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This is a timely addition to the recent discussion on this comm

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Didn’t Furi do this in 2016? I’d be surprised if it was the first game to tie parrying to health gain either. In the slew of action games that came out in the PS2 era, someone must’ve done it.

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Pretty sure this kind of game mechanic (expose yourself to an enemy attack for a skill check that regains health) can be traced back at least to the Dodgeball DLC for Outside™. Game mechanics are like TV tropes, they echo what came before them, almost without exception

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