BamHam is unironically a good action game and most of the people who shit on it are misinformed about the game. It unironically has some great mechanics that could work really well in a j-action.
>You can't actually cancel your attacks into parry mid-animation
>To kill enemies quickly you need to do takedowns on enemies, which requires a long animation commitment
>Enemies attacks are actually really fast, in normal gameplay this prevents you from mindlessly doing takedowns, this also punishes the player who don't CC since you'll be surrounded by a crowd of enemies that all have a chance to attack at any second
>On hard difficulties they remove the counter pop up, this makes countering enemies a lot harder because the animations are very fast, some being unreactable and this again encourages you to CC and position yourself to read enemy attacks better
>The entire game is about encouraging the player to keep their combo meter up, as this gives a ton of benefits
It unironically has more aggressive enemies than a lot of other action games and if you had more manual control over bamham attacks and added juggles people would be praising these games a lot as serious action games.