Icarus's blog: "Somantics"

Go ahead- its about WOTS4 and I wanted to get this out without creating another desktop item, and hunting for a piece of paper

stances-

Even if there's
"left handed variants"
for every stance (and me and chris agree- left handed fighters in this era would've swept their opponents, it was fucking unheard of and unseen)

spear counting as a new weapon with its own stances
and barehands (if there's even stances and shit for it, and not just "hey- there's barehands)

Does
NOT
account for "82" styles.

Right:
Upper
Mid
Down
Side
Draw
Dual
Ninja (underhand)
Single
Dual
underhand dual
Over/under dual

Left
Upper
Mid
Down
Side
Draw
Dual
Ninja (underhand)
Single
Dual
underhand dual
Over/under dual

Spear
Overhead- bashing
outward- defensive and thrusting
side- cleaver
Downward- defensive and thrusting

Barehands:
???
There's literally hundreds of forms of unarmed combat originating from Japan...
but if I were to guess:


Standard
Strikes
counters
kicks
holds
throws
wrestling
boxing? (game does feature european foreigners)
catfighting (why not? Game does throw in joke shit sometimes)

Gun: (pure supposition)
Left
Right
Dual


Gun/sword:
Underhand L with gun
Underhand R with gun
Overhand L with gun
Overhand R with gun
Quick-Draw: hehehehehehehe

Nodachi styles?
I doubt they're getting their own skillset.

I dunno... maybe my original theories were correct
"that's a mistranslation"
or "they mean variance within the same sword stance- IE thug middle, master middle"

Nap.
Gotta think about job interview for monday...