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I literally never do this but that is how much I have loved this game. I am not the type who would generally pick up a fighting game due to the time necessary to just be competent at one or even have fun playing with someone who knows what they are doing. This game does not require you to spend hours in the training mode just to have fun and fill up the screen with absolutely absurd super moves and combos. If you are a fighting game veteran then this might not be your favorite or the one that you are picking up to play the most but you will have a lot more people to play fighting games with if you have this game. Like Smash, Blade Strangers has simple and easy to grasp controls and is a fighting game you can just jump right into and have fun with it. I have been having an absolute blast playing with my girlfriend who is also not a huge fighting game fan but we were both able to pick it up and start doing moves that look really cool right off the bat. The single player is fun and the story is just absurd but the real joy comes from having another person sitting next to you and a really close match end with you using Shovel Knight's super move and knocking your opponent out with a giant fish swimming across the screen. It is very hard not to laugh and smile while playing this game with another person and I cannot recommend it enough.