I am a sucker for video games the place swords are the sharp demise supply units they really are, slightly than the massive, blunt sticks so many flip them into. First Reduce: Samurai Duel appears to be aiming its blades at my coronary heart, then. It is a 2D sidescrolling swordfighter through which every connecting blow means instantaneous demise, and it has a January seventeenth launch date.
The discharge date announcement was marked by a brand new pixel blood-filled trailer:
The plain comparability for any 2D swordfighting recreation is Nidhogg, which had a equally lethal method to fight. The place Nidhogg boiled down your sword swings to distinct excessive, mid and low assaults, First Reduce appears to allow you to use the mouse to easily shift your sword greater or decrease. Or at the least that is the case within the authentic free recreation, which is nonetheless out there on Itch and value a few of your time.
Your fighter’s moveset features a dodge and a shove, however in any other case it is about parrying your enemy’s assaults and discovering the correct second to strike. The Steam web page for the total launch additionally makes point out of a bunch of modes, together with survival, a situation marketing campaign, and native multiplayer.
Whereas Nidhogg is the obvious comparability, the extra sensible fighters and setting of First Reduce additionally give me an excuse to say ’90s cult combating recreation Bushido Blade. It had equally instantaneous demise inside a 3D world and by no means obtained the due it deserved.
To me, Nidhogg and its sequel by no means obtained the due they deserved, both. Maybe First Reduce would be the recreation that lastly popularises swords that slice.
