The hat makes you look like an eraser pencil from Forbidden Planet.

It’s the kind of headgear worn by the kind of criminal Batman’s too grown-up to fight anymore.

But it has, nonetheless, roused in this under-dressed stranger a sense of Dionysian frenzy.

Two dudes in armour fighting in a posh ballroom in Half Sword

You begin the demo slumped over in a flat void that stretches away forever.

Or at least, flail it at.

InHalf Sword, weapons are swung by jolting the cursor around or yanking the analog sticks.

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As such, it’s rare even with practice that you land what feels like a clean blow.

Regardless, it’s very funny.

There are someGang Beasts-worthy moments in Half Sword, albeit with a lot more gore.

Touche, good sir knight.

I’ll see you at the next Roundtable.