The world of Shadow Fight seems to combine every trope ever seen in Chinese wuxia movies, Japanese chambara samurai movies and shonen anime.

Her sole female bodyguard, a more rough-hewn warrior-woman type, on the other hand aspires to be like her one day. Her male bodyguards are all hopelessly in love with her, unaware that they are nothing more than meatshields in her eyes. Dual-wields Combat Hand Fans as her chosen weapon? Check and check.

Dragon Lady / The Vamp: Widow, without a doubt.

Most Heavy Melee attacks will overcommit you if you miss - but score big damage if you hit.

They are enormously powerful but they are sloooow and will not hit at close range.

Critical Hit: They do more damage, guarantee a knockdown and take away the Mercy Invincibility of a normal knockdown, giving the attacker the chance for one freebie extra hit.

Alternatively, their hit detection becomes more forgiving and yours becomes less. If you are under-leveled for a fight (say with a bodyguard or a Tournament opponent) and you somehow start doing too well, the game starts slipping in extra invincibility frames for them that wouldn't be there otherwise.

The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Much more subtle than most fighting games but it's there.

Takes a great deal of patience and skill though because the AI opponents will punish any error brutally and 'time-ups' will always be in the A.I.s favor.

Cherry Tapping: Theoretically possible if you go into a fight with an underleveled weapon.

At least it regens a tiny bit between fights.

Boss Rush: When you reach the Gates of Shadows, you get to fight the six Demons all over again - but now they are amped-up to match your new level of strength and you only get one health bar to fight them with.

Boom, Headshot!: Hits to the head deal more damage and can also impart addition effects, depending on the abilities of whoever inflicted it.

People are hammered into the ground with gargantuan maces, slashed with supernatural blades and Punched Across the Room by magically-amplified blows to no visible effect other than exhausted - but very much alive - defeat. His unending search for a worthy battle lead to the events at the Gates of Shadow and thus everything that happens in the game. Post-fight however, he seems resigned to the fact that he's getting a bit long in the tooth for that lifestyle.

Redhead, one of Butcher's bodyguards, as portrayed in his pre-fight banter.

Battle Intro: All fights with bodyguards, Demon Bosses and Raid bosses feature some one-sided banter.

Battle Amongst the Flames: When fighting Shogun and his bodyguards - and it is awesome.

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