It’s a really cheap but satisfying mechanic for fast paced games. Don’t know the lower two games but the upper two games would have not nearly been as good without their parry mechanic, i would argue. Some other comment mentioned crafting though and oh boy do i think that mechanic is useless in a lot of games. But maybe that is just personal taste, i enjoy a game with good parry mechanics if well implemented. Makes you feel like a badass pretty quickly, that and paired with rhythm and you can get that lovely ‘flow’ feeling sometimes.

But obviously is parrying as a mechanic is not really well implemented, i don’t care much for it