JWeinCom said:
GOWTLOZ said:
Souls games aren't centered around hacking and slashing things. THey are centered around earning Souls to buy items, craft weapon upgrades and upgrade player statistics.
You can beat the game by using magic as your primary attacking method, and use hacking and slashing sparingly. Hack and slash games are entirely made around hacking and slashing. The genre has evolved in the last fifteen years, but the core gameplay loop remains the same in modern hack and slash games.
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Like I said, I haven't played the souls games, so I can't speak to whether they should be considered hack and slash or not. I'm just saying that a large or small moveset isn't a relevant factor.
With that being said, you could easily get through the bulk of Devil May Cry 3 without any edged weapons. It would be hard (but not impossible) to get to Beowulf without actually using your sword, and from then on, you can rely solely on Beowulf/guns/guitar. Bayonetta games only have a few weapons that actually hack or slash, and you never have to use them. So, the option to play the game without much hacking and slashing is a pretty weak argument too.
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Hack and slashers don't have to use weapons that hack and slash, as in sharp edged weapons, but have weapon based mele combat. Yes you can play through DMC 3 by using Beowulf once you've unlocked it, like you could with iFrit in DMC, Gauntlet of Zeus in GOW COO and Nemean Cestus in GOW 3. Those are still mele weapons that allow you to use combos. Same goes for weapons in Bayonetta.
