Combat
Gunplay
Gunplay noun - A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
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Sword and Gun: The mixture of melee combat and gunplay is to make the gameplay much more aggressive.
Source: Video Game / Bloodborne - Elemental Battle Academy (from the same creators of Magical Battle Arena; uses third-person combat and gunplay)
Source: Doujin Soft - This is also the reason for the Gun Fu trope as authors mix hand-to-hand combat tropes with gunplay in an attempt to capture the choreography lost from using a gun instead of a sword.
Source: Analysis / Fantasy Gun Control
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