Cancelling is being able to escape from a move's animation so if Dante is swinging his sword, a specific input at a specific point can sometimes 'cancel' that animation before it finishes.
DMC3 was the first time I realised what cancelling was, and its applications took forever to sink in. No idea.īut over those weeks and months something kept me coming back, until the breakthrough. At the same time, I unlocked Bloody Palace mode and didn't try it for weeks. Playing DMC 3 at the time of release, the way I thought about games was different - it seemed like a fantastic fighter, with plenty of amazing-looking locations and some of the best boss fights ever. Your experience with a particular game always comes down to circumstance. Devil May Cry 3 is one of the best, and despite its turbo-charged action is the ultimate slow-burner. Games where the core idea is so beautifully executed it can be escalated and repeated ad infinitum yet never loses its freshness. Tetris would be an obvious example, and at another pole there's something like Disgaea.
There is a particular category of game - not a specific genre - that can be called endless.
