Defense breaking

Activities theme

Defenses can be broken, disrupted, or otherwise temporarily or permanently negated. A shield flung aside, struck so hard the person staggers and can't parry for a sec, etc.

games

platforms

Alternate names: Shield breaking
Name variations: defence breaking

Dark Souls

WIN 2012-08-24

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

WII 2011-11-18

Crypt of the NecroDancer

WIN 2015-04-23

Dark Souls: Remastered

WIN 2018-05-25

Loren the Amazon Princess: The Castle of N'mar

WIN 2012

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

WIN 2012-10-16

Rune: Viking Warlord

PS2 2001-07-29

Abyss Odyssey

WIN 2014-07-15

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

WIN 2014-02-25

Rune

WIN 2000-10-30

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

LIN 2018-03-27

The Banner Saga

WIN 2014-01-14

Implied: blocking and/or parrying

See also: shield penetrators, shield breakers

This is a bit of realism and forces people to use more variety in their moves.

Literally breaking the defense feature is not necessary, even only temporarily making it unusable or such is applicable.

Parent groups

Combat, Realism

Games by year

The first Defense breaking video game was released on October 30, 2000.

Winterwolves, Positech Games and Versus Evil published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		16
Linux		12
Mac OS X		6
X360		2
PS2		1
Mac OS Classic		1
Wii		1
Internet Only		1
Xbox One		1
PS3		1
iOS		1
Android		1

Most common companies