Spindel said:
Of course this comes down to opinions in the end, but to me there is a distinction and they feel different. There are many ”weapon based” beat em ups (golden axe, DnD:Shadow over Mystra, TNMT to name a few). I think that, at least for me, one distinction between what I consider a HnS compared to BeU is the amount of enemies you can engage at once with normal attcks. Most of the games I consider HnS you regurlarly hit hordes of enemies at once. In BeUs you hit one or two at a time and maybe you can throw an enemy at another one once in a while, this regardless of how many enemies there are on the screen. |
Octopath Traveller and Final Fantasy 15 are generally considered part of the same genre. So are Smash Bros. and Street Fighter V. Or Donkey Kong Country and Mega Man X.
Those games have differences that are way bigger than what you're describing. Doesn't seem like those are enough to call it a whole separate genre.
