One does not reduce Bushido Blade to a sword-fighting game with one-hit kills…shame on you!
You CAN hit the other guy and have him not die…the hit has to be fatal. I would have accepted a sword-fighting game that ditches life bars.
There’s a lot more going on too. Different weapons, stances, huge environments, etc.
Nidhogg is a 2D arcade mini-game. It’s amusing, but not really the same thing.