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Button Mashing is a term used to describe gameplay where certain skills can be only realized explicitly through mashing buttons, a reckless player trying to get results or when the game rewards the player(s) who bash buttons the fastest. The latter example is common in Party Games.
Games that feature terrain that can only be traversed by a specific character class.
Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.
Create-A modes allows the player to create the skate park of their dreams, their own action hero, or the next champion of wrestling.
Crowd control is the art of whittling down large groups of attacking enemies via the constant reassessment of the greatest threat to the player; achieved by constant player movement, and adjusting the aim to the closest threat, then quickly moving on to the next greatest threat, and so forth.
A double jump is the ability to jump while already in mid-air to get some extra lift. In reality, double jumps are not possible and violate fundamental laws of physics.
The feudal period of Japanese history, which was dominated by powerful regional families holding large areas of land (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun), between 1185 and 1603 AD.
Fairly weak enemies (not specific characters) that go down in a couple shots or swings, but will keep coming in droves.
A term that can be used to refer to RPGs that focus more on the action, or brawler action games which focus on hack & slash gameplay.
Complete move list for character actions that are already in the game itself. Usually accessed via pause menu.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Female ninja.
Games that fill up the player's health upon leveling up.
Combat based on organic (or similarly functioning) mounts. This can include melee or ranged attacks from horseback.
Some games feature the ability to switch the gameplay camera perspective between first and third person, either as an option or as a gameplay element.
A type of character-specific special attack seen in all variants of Koei's Musou franchise.
Samurai, or Bushi (literally, "warriors") were a social class in feudal Japan, equivalent to Western aristocracy, knights.
The military dictators of Japan for nearly 700 years, until the great "opening" and Westernization of the country in 1868. Famous shogun include Minamoto no Yoritomo (the first true shogun) and Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose ascension marked the end of the Sengoku (Warring States) Period.
Soft resetting is used in many console games to reset a game using the controller.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
Commonly found in fighting games, a super meter increases when either a character takes or gives damage (depending on the game). There are many variations on the super meter, depending on the franchise or game.
Also known as the Sengoku Era, the Warring States Era was an extended period of civil war between Japanese warlords.
The Xbox 360 has limited compatibility with original Xbox games through software emulation. Originally there were 213 Xbox games compatible with the Xbox 360, now there are 478.
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