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Murphiroth posted...

You seem sane

Unlike Vergil who has been figuratively walking in circles for who knows how long and acting equally surprised and impressed each time he sees the only landmark for miles.
The hip way of describing insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

In DMC1 Nelo Angelo makes it 3 rounds (4 if you wanna count Nightmare's alternate dimension) before finally being destroyed. He did not necessarily give up nor abandon the idea that he's going to win this eventually. Dante feeds into Vergil's issue by describing as a man of guts and honor.
In DMC3 It's the same thing, another three fights. Perhaps this one is understandable considering Vergil quite decisively wins the first fight and the second is broken up by interference.

In DMC5 it's all Vergil talks about. Get power -> fight Dante this, cutoff blast begone that. Urizen fills in for Vergil's obsession. Dante and Vergil duel. It goes nowhere. Vergil tries to claim a win over Nero would be a win over Dante by technicality. He loses. By the end Vergil and Dante are trapped in an eternal duel where keeping score has simultaneously lost meaning and become the closest thing to an end goal. Ambushes by enemies are treated as brief intermissions. With no more grandiose schemes to procure power, Vergil resorts to having the same go-nowhere fight with Dante endlessly.
Dante might be willing to end this, Vergil not so much.