Originally Posted by Grascen View Post
Monk was not a style. Psy-style is not a style. Calling a branch off of an original style does not make it another style. You could term it Psy-strategies, Psy-combos, or something along the lines of naming your moves, but it all comes down to the simple fact that there is D-style(any stabbing weapons, usually with a lunge), K-style(any slashing weapons, usually with a flip), and E-style(playing the game with mostly guns, and not using any unforeseen glitches[K-style and D-style]), and that's it. H-style does not truely exist, as you cannot play with glitches as well as not, at the same time. Not to rain on your parade, but Monk-style and Psy-style both fall into the same categories as K-style, with their slashing weapons. It doesn't matter that you use 2x Giant Swords that have no block or flip. The plain, simple fact is that you are using a weapon that slashes, therefore, you are using a branch of K-style.
I beg to differ... A style is defined by it's techniques/strategies and not by the nature of the weapon itself. To say that Psy Style and Monk Style are not styles and to use the umbrella term K-style for ALL styles is incorrect. For example: If a martial artist was using an karate and a different martial artist was using taekwondo, they could have seperate styles and still have the same weapon. What I'm saying is that it's your style that defines how you fight & move in different situations. Therefore, Monk Style and Psy Style are different Styles. They may be branches of K-style but they are clearly nowhere near the usual k-style strategy of using simple butterfly/double butterfly techniques. K-style and Monk style involve block canceling and flip to fight but Psy Style does not... and the result is a totally different way to fight. It doesn't matter if you think K-style is the end-all-be-all style that all terms can be collected under. It doesn't change the fact that the actual style of fighting and the moves, strategy, & combos differ greatly when compared to K-style. Even the slash timing is different. What you basically just said is that K-style is an umbrella term for all styles of sword fighting. Just like "empty hand" is an umbrella term for all styles of hand to hand combat. It doesn't matter how you look at it, Psy Style as a concept exists.