Jamie Laike Tsui of Capsule Computers writes:
"Blade Symphony is Puny Human Games’ sword fighting game. Puny Human Games is probably best known by their previous name, Team Dystopia of the hit Half Life 2 mod Dystopia. Blade Symphony has been in development in one form or another since 2008. In 2011, Puny Human Games turned to Kickstarter to allow them to self-fund the game. Back in February of 2013, Blade Symphony began sending beta keys to their Kickstarter backers and on April 30th, entered Steam’s Early Access program for beta games."
Puny Human has announced that its swordfighting game, Blade Symphony, will go free to play in 2018. The team targets to launch the F2P by the end of January 2018. Moreover, the engine powering Blade Symphony will be upgraded. Currently, the game uses the Portal 2 version of Source, however the F2P version will transition to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive version of Source.
From the review, "3 years later, Blade Symphony is on Steam and available to the public. It’s incredibly polished, and offers a unique form of gameplay that combines the sort of precision typically seen in the Fighting genre with a third-person, over-the-shoulder perspective and an accessible control scheme. The result is an experience that allows all players to jump right into the sort of head games and predictions that make the genre so intimate without the crazy learning curve normally associated with fighters. In this way, it’s not unlike this year’s Nidhogg or last year’s Foiled."
Blade Symphony is about the fantasy of being a swordsman and all that comes with it: honour, skill and etiquette. If you’re responsive to those ideas to even a small degree, it is a fighting game with tremendous depth and promise. It’s a realisation of its core fantasy that’s original enough in its execution to stand up as a competitive game in its own right.
This looks like Ninja Gaiden.