Devil May Cry

Style-ranked juggling combat spun out of Resident Evil to found the character-action genre.

Released 2001 Developer Capcom Platform PlayStation 2 Genre Character action Era Broadband & the console shooter Website devilmaycry.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Devil May Cry inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Numeric Score ~~1972~~Chained Combo Strings ~~1991~~Fixed Cinematic Camera ~~1996~~Contextual Lock-On Targeting ~~1998~~

The Devil May Cry series in this dataset

2001

Devil May Cry ~~this page~~

2005

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening ~~2005~~

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