Except Queen's Blade is a terrible fucking game
Disheartening if true, but I should have expected this! Clearly, I was hypnotized.
Well, I couldn't convince my friend to play it more than once with me, but essentially the ACTUAL game boils down to you each choosing your combat action from like 20 different ones (swing high, swing low, jump back, block, etc) and then comparing the results to see who wins, with characters just having an advantage in certain situations.
It's gridded out to the point where tiers are absolutely CRUSHING. Perfect example, Melpha has Holy magic which only works on the undead characters, Menace and some other bitch, and she's totally useless against anyone else.
I am assuming that this game is probably going to be nothing like that, though, just a hunch.
(I have some of the books if anyone wants to try it more with me, like I said I've only played once and would like to be able to judge it better out of morbid curiousity)