What killed the Weapon based fighting genre?
Do normies only play Street Fighter, Tekken and Smash Bros?

Back in the 90s oldfags had SoulCalibur , Samurai Showdown, Plasma Sword, Last Bronx, battle Arean Toshinden ... etc

All those franchises are dead. No SoulCalibur or Shodown in more than half a decade

If you want to use weapons , your best hope is to play one of the capcom or SNK collection of all their dead franchises.