Wow, i never see that topic
First

for starter, i agree with everything he said...
H n`S is one of my favourite genre and i play really much of games in this genre, but, like Jthamind said, combat system in
any other games compare to NG is shit...
Maybe, only maybe, i can say Bayonetta has a combat system that you must master like in NG2 but nothing too special...
GOw series is great but lol...press 5x

and you can go with this combo almost through entire game...Evade is crucial in GOW 3 on Titan and Chaos, ofcourse, but...
Darksiders...great puzzles, but combat...meh, fail...
Dante...fail...
DMC...ok, good but nothing special...
NG has so much varioations, combos, combat styles...its damn hard to master that game and that is what i most respect in that game...you really must pull all you have in that game...
I play other games and i will always play, but NG is one and only