Does Kazuma Kiryu fighting style was a game mechanic?

[Rarcelroy]

Some people say that Kiryu fighting style was a game mechanic and can't be used. Its that true?

 

[Rarcelroy]

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[KLOL506]

Not exactly, the styles are literally name-called multiple times during the series (Especially in 0) and overall hold great importance to the story, but Kiryu being limited to use certain movesets with said styles is game mechanics. Hell, even Ichiban points this out in Like A Dragon where Kiryu literally changes his stance to test Ichiban's party. But one aspect that is indeed game mechanics is that Kiryu's Style advantages are limited to said style, canonically nothing stops Kiryu from spamming all those moves in one seamless fashion, only reason you need to switch styles is so that you don't need a shit-ton of buttons to mash on your controller. One could even argue that Kiryu using Styles is just him holding back and not going all-out to test his opponents.

Same situation with Dante's 4 styles in DMC, except Dante's styles don't actually exist and they're actually just part of his normal movesets simplified into 4 styles in game so as to not require a dozen buttons on your controller.

 

[Rarcelroy]

Not exactly, the styles are literally name-called multiple times during the series (Especially in 0) and overall hold great importance to the story, but Kiryu being limited to use certain movesets with said styles is game mechanics. Hell, even Ichiban points this out in Like A Dragon where Kiryu literally changes his stance to test Ichiban's party. But one aspect that is indeed game mechanics is that Kiryu's Style advantages are limited to said style, canonically nothing stops Kiryu from spamming all those moves in one seamless fashion, only reason you need to switch styles is so that you don't need a shit-ton of buttons to mash on your controller. One could even argue that Kiryu using Styles is just him holding back and not going all-out to test his opponents.

Same situation with Dante's 4 styles in DMC, except Dante's styles don't actually exist and they're actually just part of his normal movesets simplified into 4 styles in game so as to not require a dozen buttons on your controller.

Thanks for the explanation my guy. Now probably I can make some Kiryu respect thread peacefully in some Indonesia facebook forum.