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En Garde!

Developer/publisher Fireplace Games Format PC Release Out now

There are rules to a good cinematic sword fight, in the grand tradition of Zorro, Errol Flynn and The Princess Bride. Quips should be traded as freely as blows. Style is paramount: flourishes, leaps, backflips and, of course, pirouettes are all more important than actually landing a hit. And duellists must be in constant motion, trading positions like dancing partners and using the surroundings to their advantage. Ideally, a staircase will be involved at some point.

is faithful to each of these rules, but there’s another tradition it gleefully disregards: the unspoken agreement that when

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