Blade Symphony is one of the first of many Steam Early Access games, not only is it a game you can buy whilst it still being in development but it’s also full of swords and ninja types. Puny Human Games have made an arena fighter full of the pointy weapons and straying away from button mashing sword fighting that you might find in various Action RPGs and the like, Blade Symphony is based on careful, planned attacks.
Puny Human has announced that its swordfighting game, Blade Symphony, will go free to play in 2018. The team targets to launch the F2P by the end of January 2018. Moreover, the engine powering Blade Symphony will be upgraded. Currently, the game uses the Portal 2 version of Source, however the F2P version will transition to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive version of Source.
From the review, "3 years later, Blade Symphony is on Steam and available to the public. It’s incredibly polished, and offers a unique form of gameplay that combines the sort of precision typically seen in the Fighting genre with a third-person, over-the-shoulder perspective and an accessible control scheme. The result is an experience that allows all players to jump right into the sort of head games and predictions that make the genre so intimate without the crazy learning curve normally associated with fighters. In this way, it’s not unlike this year’s Nidhogg or last year’s Foiled."
Blade Symphony is about the fantasy of being a swordsman and all that comes with it: honour, skill and etiquette. If you’re responsive to those ideas to even a small degree, it is a fighting game with tremendous depth and promise. It’s a realisation of its core fantasy that’s original enough in its execution to stand up as a competitive game in its own right.
