Because it's something fans of Dark Souls seem to like, and Dark Souls is pretty popular so of course everyone else is gonna wanna get in on that success. Same for why so many games are also adopting similar dodge mechanics, obscuring info conveyed to the player, and being weird for the sake of being weird. Dark Souls did it and was a massive hit.

It resembles a parry, but it’s actually a different system. A famous example is Street Fighter III’s “blocking” mechanic.

Was this article translated? In the English version of SF3, it is Parry, because the existing mechanic that Japan calls Guarding, we call that Blocking instead.

I'm fine with parries. Nearly all action games have some kind of parry.

Building a game around parries is boring AF though.

One of my favorite parrying mechanics is the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa in Bayonetta. You don't even need it to beat the game on Normal difficulty, but holy shit is it good and fun AF to parry Gracious/Glorious and take them in the air for a combo.

Game has a bunch of cool tools, so you don't have to fish for the parry all time and the game doesn't force to use it. It encourages you to risk trying to parry opponents for a bigger reward, but it doesn't mandate it.

Same can probably be said for Royal Guard in DMC.

I think the Expedition 33-style use of parry is more down to people wanting to appeal to the Souls-like demo. It was fine in E33, but it's massively overused.

Because I like it a and that is the only reason obliviously

It’s a pretty cheap, if unimaginative, way to add depth to a 3D action game’s combat system. Your evasion options in descending order of the size of movement and time taken are basically run, a quick pulse-dodge (maybe a roll with i-frames), and standing deflect/reversal. It feels real good to be pull off the timing.

I don't remember where I saw this, but I heard someone set up one of those reductive-but-fun dichotomies by saying "every action game is a dodge game or a parry game". I had just finished Silksong at the time and had picked up Nine Sols to try and get some more Metroidvania with difficult combat, but as it turns out, I really like dodge games and dont like parry games.

Personally I'd have preferred if Expedition 33 didn't have parry

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