Side scrolling melee combat sucks! What is a good example?

[LegitHyperbole]

Chrkeller said:

LegitHyperbole said:

I thought about dread but it's never on sale, looks fun. It's not shooting combat anyway, I'm solely complaining about the melee combat in the games I'm trying, Fury unleashed is one I had a bit of time with and that's a fun shmup. 

Fair enough.  Dread is mostly shooting but does have an excellent close combat parry system.  I suspect you would love Dread.

It's on my wishlist list. Nintendo are notoriously bad with sales, can't bring myself to pay full price for games on Switch, I got burned by too many already that I didn't gel with.