For Honor is the best fighting game I've played in ages

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For Honor didn't interest me until a friend suggested I treat it like a fighting game. Now, with tens of hours of play behind me, I can't get For Honor's systems out of my head.
It was when I stopped thinking of For Honor as some generic MOBA-ish Dark Souls-esque melee combat game, and starting thinking of it as Soul Calibur in third-person that it sparked into life. As a fighting game fan, there really is a lot to love about Ubisoft's often frustrating, often thrilling hack 'em up.
For Honor is initially tricky. It's tempting to think you can pick one of the heroes, jump into an online match and button-mash your way to victory, but you'll just die, over and over again, as knowledgeable enemy players parry your clumsy slashes before countering with devastating attacks of their own. A bit like playing fighting games online, then.
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