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Smash, Arms (unusual controls or not, it's absolutely a "real fighting game"), and Pokken Tournament (Bamco developed that one, so it's not actually first-party, but I'd count it).

Krow_Incarnate posted...

There is no discernible reason to group it together with the like of the aforementioned games because it hardly shared anything in common with them that isn't shared among all action games to some degree.

The only meaningful distinction between fighting games and action games is a focus on PvP. Everything else you listed is just a consequence of most of the genre's devs having no imagination beyond "let's clone Street Fighter because people liked that one" and fans eating it up because they also lack such imagination.

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