Stellar Blades is terribly underrated on Opencritc.

[haxxiy]

It does a lot of things right but things like no animation cancels, buffered parries, etc. make it fall short of character action excellence. Also, as you said, the narrative is a letdown.

Still, a solid 8/10 and it sold like a million, so plenty of people must have liked it too.

Edit - LMAO, two "solid 8/10" tropes back to back. I swear I didn't see the other post beforehand.