InfestedAdam posted...Blade Grasp, though very grinding to fully utilize, trivialized anything with physical attack.
It is great, isn't it? I remember when I got War of the Lions and learned it's Japanese translation, "shirahadori," (lit. 'grasping the blade') then looked it up.
The article which I read said that it's an extremely difficult technique to learn, because, well, obviously, you can get killed just training at it. It's really not recommended to try in actual battle except when you are seriously about to buy it, so there probably aren't many people who ever knew how to do that, actually catch a blade mid swing from a samurai.
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Don't tell me about it, I don't wanna hear it, y'see I just lost all m'picnic spirit