History VideoGame / SwordFight

''Sword Fight'' is an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game by Tovrick released in 2017. It's an IdleGame in which you play as a swordsman who fights other swordsmen. Eventually you level up and earn skill points which can be spent on skills to boost fighting prowess and gold which can be spent on pieces of equipment and upgrading them. After some time, many complex systems open up which affect gameplay significantly, like Masters and Disciples, Rivals, Scrolls, and Archives.

* AntiHero: The Blight Management campaign features [[spoiler:Rotvick]] as its main protagonist, with him being playable in several story-focused maps.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Grand Master Rotvick is the boss of the game's first quest, but reforms after being beaten and even becomes playable as part of a unique quest and becomes the effective protagonist of the Blight Management campaign]].

* TheUndead: Created by the Blight, includes classic Zombies and Skeletons, but also ethereal Phantoms and even possessed suits of armor.
* UndeadCounterpart: All of the undead enemies are undead variants of normal training opponents, with added features like decay or immaterialness.

* FragileSpeedster: Yellow-colored enemies are fast and rely on combos of critical hits/ArmorPiercingAttacks, giving them an advantage against slow armored opponents.

* ForegoneVictory: Once the enemy runs out of Stamina, they're unable to fight back and their stats plummet, letting you lay the smackdown for as long as you don't run too low on Stamina as well, which may give them a chance to recover.
* FragileSpeedster: The yellow enemies who are fast and rely on combos of critical hits/ArmorPiercingAttacks. This gives them an advantage against slow armored opponents.
* GlassCannon: The red enemies who usually attack first and hard, letting them drop lighter enemies with as little as one or two hits, but unable to defend themselves easily when countered.

* MightyGlacier: The blue enemies who are good at both blocking and taking hits, specializing in counter attacking, their heavy equipment such as two handed words or shields usually leaves them to be slow.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: All the zombies here are sword fighters! Though usually no more than Provast in rank.

* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:The Area 2 unique Assault stance, which is part this part LightningBruiser. Relying on damage reduction instead of defense and gaining boosted stats every-time they're hit.]]
* TheCorruption: The Blight. Encountered during quests, little is known about it save that it creates various undead from people who die within and spreads slowly. Fighting within it inflicts "Weakness" which reduces stats by a %, leaving even the best sword-fighters with 1 in all their stats if trying to fight with 100% weakness. [[spoiler:Purifying it eventually is possible, but just makes the remaining Blight even stronger, resulting in you learning to spread it as well as-needed to control it.]]

* SwordFight: The literal name of the game, usually involving 1v1 fights varying in style and stance. Some quests even involve 3v1 fights as well.

* Dem Bones: Skeletons make up some of the more powerful undead from the Blight, and collapse into a pile of bones if defeated.

* Undead Counterpart: All of the undead enemies are undead variants of normal training opponents, with added features like decay or immaterialness.

* Warrior Undead: All of the undead opponents are fully functional sword fighters with a stance and style just like you and every other fighter. More advanced undead will even use flanking tactics when outnumbering their opponent.

* JackOfAllStats: The Attack stance is this, though it's later outclassed by specializing in one of the 3 main stances. [[Spoiler:Area 2 introduces improvements to the Attack stance in a new triangle of stances, but it retains its focus in being overall balanced and technical.]]

* LightningBruiser: [[Spoiler:The Area 2 unique Assault stance, which is part this part TheBerzerker. In return for their combination of high offense and damage reduction, they rarely bother to actually block attacks, which helps feed the boost they get every-time they do take damage.]]

* StanceSystem: At first there are only the [[JackOfAllStats Attack(Orange)]] and [[StoneWall Defend(Green)]] stances. Early on you learn [[GlassCannon Barrage(Red)]], [[FragileSpeedster Blitz(Yellow)]], and [[MightyGlacier Guard(Blue)]] which includes color coding all the enemies using those stances aswell. [[Spoiler:Area 2 introduces enemies who instead specialize in Attack and Defend, and the new Assault (Purple) stance, instead of the 3 the player has usually been using up to this point.]]
* StoneWall: The defend stance is this, with the highest defense and damage resistance boosts in the game, but with almost no chance to attack and deal damage. [[Spoiler:Area 2 introduces improvements to the Defend stance in a new triangle of stances, letting it parry attacks to wear opponents out quickly and disarm them to force them to surrender.]]

* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Done with the Stances. Barrage > Blitz > Guard > Barrage. The Technique skill grants boosted stats when following the triangle. [[Spoiler:Area 2 has a separate triangle, Assault > Defend > Attack > Assault]]
* TheBerserker: [[Spoiler:The Area 2 unique Assault stance, which is part this part LightningBruiser. Relying on damage reduction instead of defense and gaining boosted stats every-time they're hit.]]
* TheCorruption: The Blight. Encountered during quests, little is known about it save that it creates various undead from people who die within and spreads slowly. Fighting within it inflicts "Weakness" which reduces stats by a %, leaving even the best sword-fighters with 1 in all their stats if trying to fight with 100% weakness. [[Spoiler:Purifying it eventually is possible, but just makes the remaining Blight even stronger.]]

* TheBerzerker: [[Spoiler:The Area 2 unique Assault stance, which is part this part LightningBruiser. Relying on damage reduction instead of defense and gaining boosted stats every-time they're hit.]]

* AIRoulette: Head Master Rotvick will randomly switch between fencing and two-handed style. To get past his third tournament, you will also need him to randomize his stance.

* StanceSystem: At first there are only the Attack(Orange) and Defend(Green) are included. Early on you learn Barrage(Red), Blitz(Yellow), and Guard(Blue) which includes color coding all the enemies who use those stances too. [[Spoiler:Area 2 introduces enemies who instead specialize in Attack and Defend, and the new Assault (Purple) stance, instead of the 3 the player has usually been using up to this point.]]

* ChromaticArrangement: You usually face of against a set of three enemies at every rank - a red GlassCannon, a blue MightyGlacier, and a yellow FragileSpeedster. Later in the game, this is expanded to instead be [[spoiler:a orange JackOfAllStats, a green StoneWall, and TheBerzerker nearly LightningBruiser purple opponents.]]

* CriticalHit: You have a chance that an attack will be a critical hit, dealing their Base HP in damage (1 HP Segment). This ends up being a whole third of a novice's health bar, and even the toughest opponents lose at least 10% of their Max HP from a critical hit.

* DualWielding: You can use the Dual Swords mode. It makes your left and right hand use the sword, allowing for boosts from both swords but not additional stats for every sword level.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: You/your disciple lack characterisation, or even a face since they're seen from the back at all times.
* FlashOfPain: You and the enemies flash red upon getting hit or orange upon deflecting an attack but still taking 50% damage.

* ForegoneVictory: Once the enemy runs out of Stamina, they're unable to fight back and their stats plummet, letting you lay the smackdown as long as you have Stamina, which practically won't run out before the battle ends if you have maxed Endurance and the Lv. 10 Attack Bonus that halves Stamina used with every attack.
* FragileSpeedster: The yellow enemies who are fast and deal moderate damage, but don't require much attacking to beat.
* GlassCannon: The red enemies who deal high damage and are reasonably fast, but usually lack defenses.
* GoodArmorEvilArmor: Full Plate armor worn by your character is white, while Full Plate armor worn by enemies is darker-colored and has additional menacing elements.
* IdleAnimation: When the swordfighter is not performing any action, he walks small steps from left to right.

* MightyGlacier: The blue enemies who are sturdy and often have a shield that blocks blows very often, but are generally slow.
* NewGamePlus: Retiring as a Master means you have to start over at level 1 teaching a Disciple. This comes with many benefits that make progress faster, like more money/EXP, a reduced skill point cost if the Master had the skill, and the potential to reach higher skill levels. Later on you have the ability to open a new School, getting rid of the Masters, Scrolls, Rival Stars, etc. but keeping Awards and Fame which can be spent on Archives, to improve Influence for Jobs and their effects, making you get benefits from them faster and doubling the effects.
* RegeneratingHealth: The first military training quests involve zombies in the blight, who recover health during rests.

* StanceSystem: Five stances are selectable, with Attack and Defense available from the start and the other three having to be unlocked by earning Awards.
** Attack: Balanced. Raises Attack, Defend, and Hit if the skill is improved.
** Defend: Defense and Damage Resistance goes up but Attack drops. Atk% is halved to 50% and attacks reduce Stamina by 5%.
** Barrage: Raises Attack at the cost of Defense. +20% Damage, 2x Power Strike chance, 50% chance to ignore Combo Attacks.
** Blitz: Raises Attack and Hit but reduces Damage. +15% Attack Speed, 2x Combo Attack chance, lowers enemy's Counter Chance by 50%.
** Guard: Raises Defense and Damage Resistance but reduces Attack. 2x Counter Attack chance.
* SurpassedTheTeacher: The objective of the [[NewGamePlus Disciple and Master system]]. Once you're done raising your character, you retire them as a Master with knowledge of Fighting Skills and Mastery Skills that makes learning them easier for the Disciple. The Disciple is meant to learn more skills and reach a higher level, plus the Head Master award earned for having a Master who's 50 levels higher than all the other Masters further encourages this by giving 5 more Mastery Points when your Disciple retires with a higher level than the other Masters.
* SwordFight: The whole game is 1v1 fights against swordwielders where both you and them have different styles and techniques.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Done with the StanceSystem. Barrage > Blitz > Guard > Barrage, with the Technique skill boosting stats by 6 per level if you're using the stance that's strong against the opponent. Attack and Defend stances have no impact in the triangle, but they do trigger the Technique bonus if used against each other.
* UnstableEquilibrium: The Rival Master skills based on certain condition, like the ones that boost Experience earned if you beat the enemy with the first hit or without taking damage, make you level up faster, increasing stats used for them, thus making it easier to keep earning boosted Experience.
* WarmUpBoss: Grand Master Greg is the introduction to Rivals and is not a significant challenge. He's only level 100, when you've beaten opponents in the Grand Master Tournament that are at that level. His main points are high Attack at 1669 (+60 if you're using Dual Swords) and being able to dish out almost a million damage, but the rest of his stats are average.

* ChallengeRun: The game encourages reaching milestones while restricting yourself with certain Awards, for example reaching level 50 as a Novice (this would mean not having crucial benefits from higher ranks for a while) or becoming a Master without spending any Gold (so only starting equipment at level 1 is usable).
* ChromaticArrangement: You usually face of against a set of three enemies at every rank - a red GlassCannon, a blue MightyGlacier, and a yellow FragileSpeedster.

* CriticalHit: You have a chance that an attack will be a critical hit, dealing damage equal to 1/4 of opponent's current HP, minimum 5% of max HP.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Dying does not result in anything, you just fight the opponent again and your health is refilled. Even dying during a tournament only means you can try it again after some time passes. In fact, dying can be a good thing later on as you earn offline Experience and Gold equal to most of the time of the lost fight with Rank 2 Noble Lineage.

* CombatPragmatist: You can be one in fights with Rival Masters, albeit you'll be penalized for it. These duels have rules which the Rival Master follows, like Sword and Shield only and Guard only. This does not prevent you from breaking them and going in with whatever setup you want, but you get -200 or more to Atk, Def, and Hit for every rule that isn't followed.

* GoodArmorEvilArmor; Full Plate armor worn by your character is white, while Full Plate armor worn by enemies is darker-colored and has additional menacing elements.

* SwordFight: Duh. The whole game is 1v1 fights against swordwielders where both you and them have different styles and techniques.

* CombatPragmatist: You can be one in fights with Rival Masters, albeit you'll be penalized for it. These duels have rules which the Rival Master follows, like Sword and Shield only and Guard only. This does not prevent you from breaking them and going in with whatever setup you want, but you get -200 to Atk, Def, and Hit for every rule that isn't followed.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Dying does not result in anything, you just fight the opponent again and your health is refilled. Even dying during a tournament only means you can try it again after some time passes. In fact, dying can be a good thing later on as you earn offline Experience and Gold equal to most of the time of the lost fight later on.

* SkillPointReset: There are several ways to reset skill points, including those spent on Fighting Skills, Mastery Skills, and Lineage. Only the third one is three and can be done once every 24 hours, the first two require specific Lineage.

[[caption-width-right:250:Your typical sword fight. You're the one on the right.]]

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Dying does not result in anything, you just fight the opponent again and your health is refilled. Even dying during a tournament only means you can try it again after some time passes.
* DualWielding: You can use the Dual Swords mode. It makes your left and right hand use the sword, allowing for very fast damage but not offering protection from the shield.

* ChromaticArrangement: You usually face of against a set of three enemies at every rank - a red JackOfAllStats, a blue MightyGlacier, and a yellow FragileSpeedster.

* UnstableEquilibrium: The Power Training skill boosts Experience earned if you beat the enemy with the first hit, which makes you level up faster, increasing Hit chance and damage dealt, thus making it easier to keep earning boosted Experience.

* TacticalRolePaperScissors: Done with the StanceSystem. Barrage > Blitz > Guard > Barrage, with the Technique skill boosting stats by 6 per level if you're using the stance that's strong against the opponent. Attack and Defend stances have no impact in the triangle, but they do trigger the Technique bonus if used against each other.