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Controls are super-responsive, allowing for quick combinations to be strung together - if the player is good enough.

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  1. adjective Answering or replying; responding.
  2. adjective Readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals, or efforts: a responsive student.
  3. adjective Containing or using responses: responsive reading; responsive liturgy.

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  • Controls are super-responsive, allowing for quick combinations to be strung together - if the player is good enough. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Very responsive, and the Twitter supports sounds great. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • It's been stable, responsive, and mostly feature complete. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • Even the accelerometer was responsive, and the phone wasted little time flipping into landscape mode when we tilted the device on its side. —  infoSync World
  • Foreign nationals say that had the police from the Broad Street police station -- two doors away from the Venture Africa building where the attack took place -- been more responsive, the deaths would have been prevented. —  Mail & Guardian Online
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  1. from Old French (and F.) responsif =Italian risponsivo, from Late Latin responsivus, answering (Middle Latin responsiva, feminine, an answering epistle), from Latin respondere, past participle responsus, respond: see respond.
 

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