Rise of the Ronin does this and it's one of the cooler things about the game. Shame the evil counterpart was barely fleshed out and just runs around doing evil things because

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I get what you mean. I came from playing Rise of the Ronin where it's all about parrying, and some bosses early on absolutely shit themselves if you parry one whole string lol. Like that warden lady before that first underground facility, I parried her first combo and she died in less than a minute.

Not even saying it's a huge feat, I genuinely wish I had access to a higher difficulty setting from the start.