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The cleverly designed levels affect the strategy as well. If the player is unarmed, they could try and disarm the opponent, dodge the opponent, or try to get the opponent to accidentally kill themselves. Likewise, the dagger and bow are better for ranged attacks. The rapier is best when you are facing the opponent head-on, whereas the broadsword is great for defending against aerial attacks.

There is a fun bit of strategy in weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of your opponent’s current weapon and positioning while deciding the best way to advance past them. Unarmed? Roll over a weapon to pick it up without breaking stride. There are only a few basic actions, move, jump, and attack, but these actions can be combined in various sequences and combinations that go a fair bit deeper. The game exemplifies the “simple to learn, difficult to master” idiom that has defined addictive gameplay since arcade games in the late 70s.

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Each game plays like a tug of war match, with players advancing against each other to try to break free and gain momentum to get to the end of the level.

Because of these frequent respawns, the game never feels totally out of hand and allows for the tide of the battle to shift quickly and effortlessly. When a player dies or falls behind, they are respawned in front of the advancing player with a new weapon, creating a new battle that may require a new strategy. Each player works to block their opponent from advancing past them while simultaneously advancing past their opponent and making it to the far end of the level. Players are placed across from each other, given a weapon, and tasked with killing (or getting past) the opposing player. Nidhogg II places two players in a sword fight in the center of a long horizontal level. The game is named after the Nidhogg, a Norse mythological serpent that eats people in torment, which is featured in the game.

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The original Nidhogg was created for a show at New York University, before eventually being released for the PC and Mac in 2014, as well as PS4 and PSV later in the year. Nidhogg II is a one-on-one fencing game by Meshoff games for the PC, XBOX ONE, PS4, and the Switch.

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