Though this was said for lulz, I'm quoting it because I seriously feel this way.
No lock-on button sucks ass and it always will. Not all gamers are friggin pro at hack and slashing left right and center without the aid of lock-on.
With style, thank you very much. At least I'm not grabbing toothpaste, a hairbrush, a shoe and a shirt and slamming them onto all the wrong body parts while I'm doing it, which is honestly what DmC feels like to me sometimes. I get lost and then I don't know wtf is going on and then BAM, I'm hit, bam bam bam, down down down. It's really annoying.
If NT was trying to appeal to the more casual newbie gamer and make this game easier yet more challenging than the previous entries, they could have added the friggin lock-on button.
OR they could have made it the DT.
Like, come on. Make it EASY for me.
This is just my preference as a casual gamer. I'm not a hardcore-this-is-do-or-die kind of gamer. I like to have fun, not tear my hair out because of little things that could have made it more enjoyable and less frustrating.
But alas.
Bring out ye pitchforks then, I have yet again spoken my mind.