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Gaawa_chan posted...

Discounting Smash? There was Arms.

... Doesn't pretty much any game count as a party game if you play it at a party? I've always thought that "party" is kind of a bizarre genre since it seems pretty loosely defined even by gaming genre standards, though most definitions I've seen of it would not include Smash or other fighting games.

"Party game" is sort of a derogative term that actual fighting game players have used specifically to label Smash as such.

It really has no meaning. "Arena Fighter" might be more appropriate, but it doesn't really have anything in common with the other games that's more often used for either.

The only games that Smash really shares anything with are the cheap knockoffs that are intentionally done in the same style to cash off of it's hype, such as PSABR and that Onimusha game.

If there's one thing you can give Smash credit for, it's that there really is no other game like it that isn't designed with the specific purpose of imitation.

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