theres games with unique combat but /v/ will usually have some other reason to hate on them

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cuphead has piles of pattern recognition and gotchas
if you want challenge that cant just be memorized its the very lategame of pic related. Prime bosses fall prey to it, but gauntlets like P-2 or the final boss of 1-E are practically impossible to "just memorize" unless you discover a hyper specific cheese method