BOREAL BLADE – NATURAL BLOCKING
One of the core mechanics of the game explained
Boreal Blade is a melee fighting versus game that launched yesterday on Nintendo Switch together with a free demo, and a Steam Beta. It has a ton of in-depth combat mechanics that are hard to spot from just the trailers. In a new blog series named the Battlemaster Lessons, the concept of ‘natural blocking’ is explained in detail in the first post. In Boreal Blade weapons are physical objects and therefore block attacks even when you are not actively using them. There are many ways to use natural blocking to your advantage, and those are explained in the first Battlemaster Lesson found here.
Both the Boreal Blade demo and full game are available on Nintendo eShop, with details of the differences below:
