this is a game where you get your head beat in thousands of times and begin to learn and complain about a bunch of completely made up mechanics that don't apply to any other game in existence.

join a dwindling playerbase that is completely dominated by players who have hundreds of hours, trapped in an eternity of waiting for the next actually decent melee combat game. learn absolutely nothing of value from the tutorial. attempt to learn from youtube, but find that no matter how many tutorials you watch, you can't drag. learn to survive through cheesy strategies while you slowly learn initiative. die hundreds of times. grind on duel servers to improve, learn the muscle memory. queue for ranked. abandon all hope of finding a ranked match. grind. grind. hundreds of hours. become a legendary warrior. get gambled by some noob using cheesy strategies to survive. rage. you have honed your skills. now, you wait for an actually good melee combat game. just like the rest of us.

Due to the fact that you have to run up to your opponent to defeat them makes for this small window of time where you and them can start interacting before fully engaging in a fight to the death. For example, you and a guy can be squaring up for a duel on the frontline when a horseman rides in between you and has his head detonated by someone throwing a maul. You and your opponent are left standing awestruck at what you witnessed before crouch spamming each other as a way of saying "hehehehe" and then both going your separate ways. Moments like this has have happened more times than I can count. It's always a treat. Don't even get me started with all the shenanigans that happen around bards lmao

Banger game