The reason why I don't think weapon switch combos would work in DMC5 is because of how weapon switching works, you'd only be able to combo with the next weapon in line. Sure, you can actually set them to any order you want in between missions, but the fact is, you'd only have access to one switch combo per weapon, which would incentivize you to find the strongest one, which goes against DMC's philosophy of variety being more important than viability

this game just just disturbed me as a kid who had played 4 and 3.

I liked the fun factor, but hated what they did with Dante and the writing.

You think? This and its older brother Devil May Cry 2 I dread the thought of playing. "El Donte" indeed! EDIT: I mean, when the gameplay is pretty good mostly, but the things that it's sandwiched between are dreadful, I'd dread going through the trite writing and dialogue and characters just to get to the gameplay, especially when it's this bad. I mean, I played a game called Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy where the story is pretty bad, but it wasn't the focus, instead being the gameplay and the results were an 8/10 in my book. DmC? The game is drawing attention to the story and characters and it overpowers the taste of the gameplay, resulting in a 4/10 stomach-ache that I dread going through!

Ninja Theory are better off making anything that isn't a character action game. Heavenly Sword and Enslaved are well presented games for their time, but, my god, the gameplay was mediocre. Still, Capcom are the ones to blame for letting a team of their caliber handle a Devil May Cry game, on top of ever thinking that the series need a reboot to begin with.

Im an advocate for the reboot, but I certainly understand some of your points.

There is 1 thing I respectfully disagree on this video and it's about the enemies of devil may cry in general. Unlike souls games that are meant to be defeated the enemies of devil may cry games are meant to both be defeated and be styled on and that's a balancing act between being aggresive and for the player to read their moves to pull off combos 🤔

Im currently playing the reboot just so i can make my own opinion. The first thought when i saw the opening cutscene was “this doesn’t feel like a dmc game. I enjoy the gameplay and think the weapon switching here is done better than all the other dmc games. The music for me is a mixed bag mainly because the genre of music just isn’t for me. The characters and story suck any ounce of fun i may be having. I refuse to skip them because I want to see how much of a dumpster fire the story is, but it is soul sucking. Any time DINO opens his mouth I immediately start wishing i was playing dmc1,3,4 or 5. Vergil hurts my soul here.

no, it certainly was not a mistake yes the story/writing and characters were really not that great, however everything else was at least in the range of 'solid to good' the level design in particular is the best in the series, hands down and the little stronger focus on platforming sections also fits very well in a stylish action game with a very agile main character. i love dmc5 but everytime i play it and then play DmC, it makes me wish that the games were combined into a dmc game that has the best of both world, that being the map design, some of the good parts of its combat (f.e. interchangable pause combos) and platforming of DmC and the combat of dmc5

DCM1 having the best enemies is yet another reason why I love it so much. Any time I play the rest there's always 1 or 2 enemies that are just super boring and annoying.

Great video my man!

I very like this DmC. Graphics and music is good and optimization. I played this game at max settings on Intel HD 2500. You can play this game even using GeForce 6600 128 MB.

Hi there! It's been quite a while. How're you doing? What's new in your life? First of all - I apologize for being late with watching your video. Finally I've managed to save some time for this and, gotta be honest, you're probably the first among gamers that has analyzed and dismantled DmC perfectly imo (I've been waiting for freaking YEARS when you're gonna tackle down this game!). I played the game (PC) back in 2013 and I enjoyed the gameplay, yeah, there were way too many unnecessary slurs and curse words, but it wasn't a bad game. I'm just unable to compare it with other DMC games because I've never played any (not even the latest one). To sum it up - I'm glad that you've managed to make this video and I agree with everything you've said regarding DmC. Great job as always, mate! 👍🍻

I feel like, capcom told ninja theory to revamp the series and that they didnt care what they did, but to make it edgy/ Then I think ninja theory went hard and created something they were proud of, and took it personal when fans went what is this? Personally I think they shouldve stuck to their guns, but there was definitely antagonization on both sides. The end result is a game I feel like neither side was really happy with. It wasnt devil may cry enough to appease old fans, and those who were open to the new direction, felt like it was just a watered down version of the old games. Its sad really, I wouldve loved to see their original vision.

Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun with this entry, and yet, I'm struggling with DMC3. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun too, ofc, but this one is more accessible I suppose, and the skill ceiling isn't as high as in 3. I feel like I can get more combos done in this one than on the other ones, since the margin for error is less strict. The timer for "do different attacks" on 3 seems super short lol. Watching the video made me want to play it again on harder difficulties actually lol. (Gotta finish 3 first though, last time I played it was over 10 years ago)

Whenever a series is rebooted, there is fear amongst fans that the new iteration will be a husk of its previous iteration and will voice their opinion and the new creators will either, ignore them, take those criticisms into consideration, or urge people to wait until it is completed as they think the fans will love it. Devil May Cry hardcore fans and Ninja Theory did not act civil or rational at all. This probably distorted DmC from a passion project into one of fueled by hatred more or less.

actually in hunter boss fight you can parry blade and claw attack with timed sword attack, stunning it. so its not that tedious but game never gives you any hint that you can do that

I'm sure if you wanted, you could go on even longer about what this game does wrong or misunderstands about the OG series, I definitely could. Hell, the marketing was especially atrocious thanks to how Gaming Journo's added fuel to the flamewars at the time and still attempt act like the game was misunderstood. The part that gets me is that Capcom contracted NT out of all the Western studios at the time to make this reboot was because of their storytelling expertise which means that the games writing had to be a masterpiece or at the very least have better writing than the previous enties to justify its existence. Afterall, you weren't commissioning NT for their Game Design at the time. And what do you know, the games story and writing is a common criticism from both sides of the spectrum.

It wasn't a bad game for what it was It just wasn't a (true) Devil May Cry game

I'm happy you mentioned weapon switch combos. I wish 3, 4, or 5 had that feature

I'm a Devil May Cry fan and I liked DmC.

vergil in this game is also a terrible anarchist. one because anarchists dont want any kind of state period, specially state enforced violence, second because for an ideology that is based upon the organization of the worker's class, he presides over an organization of just 3 people. third because as an anarchist his ideology would be to take down the system that oppresses everyone, not take it over for a game that tries to be punk it does a terrible job showing what punks actually stood for and only mildy adapts the visual identity

Aquila is more like a strange copy of Kratos ' blades of chaos from how 3

They missed the opportunity of calling “the order” Devil May Cry, and after the end, Dante would inherit the Devil May Cry and we could have a better cliffhanger

fear 3, banjo kazooie nuts and bolts and the dmc reboot share something in common, if they werent attached to their franchises they'd be loved more. "good game but not a good dmc game ect..:

Honestly the gameplay is pretty fun for this abomination. I cringed heavily at the dialogue and cutscenes but I enjoyed the gameplay itself.

I actually really liked DmC: Devil May Cry. Limbo was such a cool and interesting location. Dante was Cringe asf and way too edgy but that was everything in the early 2010's

How does dmc1 have the best enemy design?!!

the only thing I liked about this game was the gameplay and the music, also vergil in this game doesn't even fight, he uses the Yamato, like a stick and also the devil trigger in this game is complete shit

prom date!!

While i like the classic series more, i began to like this game throughout the years. Also about the music part, i like some of the songs in DmC and as someone who is a fan of many music genres, it's DMC3 that got me thinking and feeling "this is something unique for me" when i first saw DMC3 thanks to a family friend in the mid 2000s. Heck even the "Shop" menu and "Mission" menu if i remembered right has this guy speaking or praying. This send some creeps on me back then. Now I was a kid back then and until now, imo DMC3 ost is the best. I didn't finish DMC1 cause if i remember right, there's already a freaking puzzle (which makes me think about DMC1 being born during the development of RE4 if i remember right) and as a kid i didn't like puzzles lol. As for DMC2 i remember fighting the "Zombie Tank" and then this huge ass head boss? Things are a blur with that game. Even as a kid, I got bored with it? As for DMC4, I enjoyed it but not the same enjoyment as DMC3. Also the OST is ok. Then DMC5 came and while I'm happy that the classic Dante is back, one thing i don't like there is V lol and i havent even finished the game yet. Im still with Nero and fought a huge boss which I don't even remember the name of. The only song that i like in that game so far is "Bury The Light" which is memed to oblivion. Oh and if DmC is the future forward and there's no DMC5, i think ill be more sad but will eventually like the reboot still. I'll fondly look back more on the classic series if this happened. But now that we have DMC5, i actually am interested in a DmC2 but of course i like the classic more so i also look forward to DMC6 XD Decent video btw

A bad game, made by a bad team, for bad reasons, that had a bad effect on the franchise. It's an even worse entry than DMC2 and deserves to be forgotten. The combat is decent in the Definitive Edition, but if all you want is decent combat there are plenty of good games to play that don't shit all over their series and its fans.

I'll always love reboot. Put countless hours into this game and got me introduced to the series, albeit the correct version to play is definitive edition for sure. Never touched vanilla. Would love to see a continuation on reboot alongside a DMC5 sequel, but never gonna happen 🙁

I havent even watched this video yet but just by the title i can say GET THIS MAN A TRUE....

i couldnt finish the game because of that ugly baby monster

YO mah man, from a time in the past... Whered ya go?!

No. It's not a mistake. It's flaws are a result of the vitriolic gatekeeping attitude of the extremist fans who gave d3a7h thr34ts to a small developer company, who in turn realized they're not wanted and had to give what they were told, and move on. Plus some of the questionable business decisions Capcom was making. Remember Remember Me? That's also another Capcom published indie dev company game that had development issues. DmC had long lost its chance since day one. Doesn't negate the actual faults of corporate choices AND the mindless hateful horde of fans who want to bring down anyone who simply wants to give the game a chance. Since their unhappiness is _such_ a priority to this day.

I actually enjoyed Dante's edgy character on this one, bu the story was so awful and the combat got boring after two hours.

i personally really enjoyed the game. The new take on Vergil was awful. I did honestly like the story, the gameplay, and the soundtrack. As long as you don't see DmC as canon, it's fairly enjoyable

First of all : Rest in Peace Buichi Terasawa, creator of Cobra. On to the video : DmC is seeped in toxicity from all sides, it's not a game that will ever be freed of it; everything around it was a huge mistake, from Capcom's westaboo attitudes due to Inafune's lunacy at the time, to the director's narcissism to the point where the first Donte was made in his spitting image, to the decisiviness of the title that lead to the death of two DMC forums at the time and a swarm of new fanboys that screeched louder in defence of the title since they thought it was going to be the New Vegas of DMC games(fucking LOL). The only good things that came out of this shitheap were the El Donte y Virgin mod packs, with an appropriately mexican soap aporea atmosphere, highly approve of them. And the laughs from the Vergil's downfall story being basically "what british toonami watchers understood Bleach was all about". What a riot. Which becomes even funnier when you recognise that "Bleach" as a plot happened with DMC4, on Nero's part, the guy who is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch aka Ichigo, trying to rescue Kyrie, who was voiced by Stephanie Sheh aka Orihime. Not only that, Ninja Theory recruit the gy who voiced Virgin out of the Power Rangers because Dan Southworth used to be in Power Rangers as well and was a beloved character in the show. As for the game it was just dogshit when it came out and the worst thing was that it was MOGGED by other western action games at the time to the point where it was laughable. I know people like to meme how the west doesn't make good action games but after DMC3 came out, the west did steroids in order to catch up. To give you an example of games BETTER than DmC at the time it came out(some are still better than the Definitive Edition of DmC, some people would contest that GOW3 is superior due to the insane combo potential it gets) : >Ghost Rider (PS2) >Darksiders 1&2 (PS360) >Dante's Inferno (PS360) >God of War 3 & Ascension (PS360) >Lords of Shadow 1&2 (PS360) >Spider-man Web of Shadows (PS360) And Ghost Rider and Darksiders 1 were effectively Devil May Cry clones, with Darksiders 2 being a Bayonetta clone with weapon switching combos done better than DmC did at the time. And they were on a far tighter budget than Ninja Theory's DmC, that had at least double the budget of DMC4. Many people even sleep on these games despite there being combo mad videos by dedicated Truestyle tournament-level players; heck one guy has a Lv1 No Upgrade, No Damage challenge of Lords of Shadow 2 on his channel, shwocasing the depth of that game. And keep in mind, Lords of Shadow 1 and 2 use the same stupid "Hold the L/R Trigger to make your weapon glow red/blue/change into Chaos/Law weapon" and even they had a far better understanding of that system, without colour coded enemies and did better than Ninja Theory did in 2013 with DmC; something Ninja Theory should have learned, considering they pulled a similar system with Heavenly Sword and it was crap back then as well. FUCKING DRACULA is better at being a streamlined Dante with a whip, Ifrit/Gilamesh/Beowulf and Rebelion and his Swordmaster/Royalguard/Trickster gimmicks all rolled into one compared to Donte. They learned nothing. And that's not even the best part; the combat was WORSE before Itsuno flew and fixed some parts of the original and then helped with Vergil's Downfall. And to make the title good, there needed to be a DE with full Itsuno control; the guy had to fix the game TWICE to be playable. And it's not even due to UE3 as an engine because the fucking Lords of Shadow games have the UE3 engine and play better than DmC. And shit, at least three of them have miles better stories, characters, voice acting, music and artstyles than DmC could ever dream to have. Calling it "more enjoyable than a lot of western hack'n'slash games" is fairly myopic, especially at the time period. As for DMC4, part of the criticisms back then also had a few things to say about the cut content from DMC 3 : >Move changes / Frame advantage due to Stylish rank (Somewhat is in the game via the Devil Trigger enhanced moves but only barely) >Turbo Mode was missing(despite the default speed of DMC4 being that of DMC3's turbo mode and TM being added later) >A few weapons and moves Dante had were cut from DMC3 and to this day, have never been added back, not even for other characters >Guns were nerfed horribly While the combat was good, it was sadly missing a lot due to the game getting rushed by higher ups, which is a shame because we could have seen what a "proper" DMC4 should have been at the time with a glimpse from DC4DE and another series that ran at the same time and Devil May Cry used as a base to model DMC4 and DMC4DE : Sengoku Basara. If I try and compare how many moves and animations were ported over to DMC4 DE just to get it out of the door, we'll be here by tomorrow so I'll say that just compare Vergil, Lady's and Trish's movesets to the following characters from Basara : >Ishida Mitsunari >Uesugi Kenshin >Saiga Magoichi >Kasuga And to be fair, Sengoku Basara did have a history of copying moves from DMC, you have Date Masamune to thank for that; problem is, it never shared assets until DMC4 DE needed to do so, due to higher ups refusing to give it more of a budget. Also the fact that Oda Nobunaga after SB2 coped Nero's Devil Trigger gimmick and actually manifested it better than Nero did in his own game, again, because DMC4 was rushed out of the door really fast. Nowadays nobody cares about that since DMC5 exists but back then there was a real fear that the asset flipped DMC4 DE would be the last thing from DMC that we'd ever get(aside from Sengou Basara 4 Sumeragi). But it's still a shame because a lot of the gimmicks and unique gameplay mechanics from both DMC3 and 4 were sadly not ported to DMC5, some understandably(gravity and physics) but others are bafflingly absent. Oh and the final gut punch of them all? Did you know there was to be Devil May Cry Portable game for the PSP? Yeah, there was one. After DMC3, one of the producers, Tsuyoshi Tanaka had the project in his hands and wanted to make a portable DMC, this time set in France, before DMC4, just so he could refine the DMC3 mechanics even more and streamline them a bit so that player could feel at ease when jumping from DMC3's Dante to DMC4's. The game got delayed and ultimately cancelled. Why? Because by the time it got the green light to resume development back in 2009, Inafune cancelled it because he bought in Ninja Theory and the portable game had to go. So yeah, not a great start. And how the game would have ended up? If the rumours are true, look at the mobile game DMC : Peak of Combat before the "gameplay update" it had a few months ago. The mobile DMC game first started circulation and its earliest cinematic was a teaser trailer from 2012, about the same time Capcom reportedly sold the Megaman PSP game engines to chinese studios. A few years later, the chinese studios made Megaman X DiVE out of that game engine and with those sold assets, so put 2 and 2 together and you can guess where the half finished assets and game engine of the portable DMC ended up, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE FUCKING SHITTY MOBILE GAME HAS DMC3 DANTE IN IT FOR NO REASON! In short, fuck Inafune, fuck Ninja Theory and fuck DmC, they spoiled so much at the time, cancelled games and destroyed forums and the attacks on the players didn't help either. People should never forget those times and shouldn't give the game a pass, now, after Itsuno busted his ass twice to fix it. The man's effort is admirable but that doesn't excuse the game itself especially when he was called to fix it, a similar situation with DMC2 and people don't cut that game nearly as much slack.

I didn't mind the gameplay, I minded how their devs has such a cringe approach to everything else The story is ripped out straight out of they live, the dialogue is your garden variety fight the machine government bad wake up sheeple (also squirrel semen was mentioned which shouldn't exist in any dialogue let alone DMC) and the enemy designs felt less DMC and more DOOM

Dude DmC was the best version of the franchise, it actually has a story that makes sense. Even the best way to show why Virgil and Dante have the relationship they have. Shit 5 games in the original franchise and the story is like 80s cartoon, with absolutely no story that makes sense at all. Where DmC is more of an action movie or an adult Manga. People just bitch to bitch. I wish they would of continued is franchise over the boring road runner cartoon that we got that was 5.

Say what you want about everything but gameplay, style and music were flawless.

It seems you forget something. In this unnecessary reboot, the Donte is a selfinsert of the game's director, Tameen Antoniades. The same reason why I consider NinjaTheory to be one of the first woke studies, because already in 2013 they had committed all the sins and specific behaviors of what we call woke studies today. Arrogance, hanging on to another author's work and pretending that they can do it better, detesting and disrespecting the original material and its fans. Self-insertion and a marked and unnecessary Americanization of a product that already had its own essence.

you were a mistake

Having plenty of moves that do essentially the same thing does not make a combat system deeper. DmC of guilty of that too but to lesser extent that older entries. Yes, I know, I know, you should use different move to get higher style rating... I believe the reason why added color coded enemies is to make you do moves that you otherwise wouldn't (because there is more damaging alternative). And honestly idea of color coded enemies is not bad, its the execution. One problem you correctly named as the stun on attack and the other is the particular enemies that were color coded - shield wearing guys and rages. Only way to kill blue guys effectively is to parry their ice long range attack, other is to use blue grapple kick but that would put you in trouble if there is more than one enemy, or you can attack its shield like an idiot. Red shield guys have to be attacked by single target weapons that have clumsy AoE. And rages are rages... Not that bad of enemy but you have just one effective strategy to deal with them (stunlock blue one with Aquilla - or parry - and kill the other first). Also you can't use any gun against them which is a shame, unless... Devil Trigger in this game "bleaches" color-coded enemies so you can kill them with whatever but for some weird reason it was never told in the game. Witches are far, far more obnoxious to deal with. And then there are Wisps. Sigh... The first boss annoying projectile can be parried and in fact it can be parried very easily. I always thought that this fight was supposed to teach you to parry, if not on the first but definitely on the second playthrough (and as far as I remember they DO give you a hint about parrying projectiles in the 1st level of the game). You can parry almost everything in this game actually. You can teleport through enemies. Okay it plays dodge animation but it is still non-collision move. You can teleport this way even through tyrant (big fat thing charging at you). Feels nice to put max amount of darts into his back, aggro him dodge through him to activate demon evasion buff and then explode him while not even looking at him (not enough damage from just darts on higher difficulty levels though - you will need to smash with other things a couple of times first). The biggest gameplay crime of this game is lack of display of lock-on. However the way lock-on implemented in e.g. DMC5 is also bad. I can't believe I'm saying it but lock on control was so much better in DarkSouls... PS. Kat was a good character. Not everybody has to be an over-the-top demon slayer. She was competent support and she was not a damsel in distress - she did explored chief demon level while she was captured in out-of-body form (ability of hers that was mentioned multiple times).

This is a good game bro.

Those who don't appreciate DmC Devil May Cry can kiss my ass because the game is just too damn fucking good to be deserving of a bad review.

It was not a mistake in fact its better than dmc5 gameplay wise, dmc definitive edition brings something new to the table and it actually is hard on the other hand dmc5 brings absolutely nothing new to the table, 95% of the enemies are walking combo bags and the game is nothing but a combo game there's nothing else to it also i don't even want to talk about the shitty photorealistic artstyle I know what kind of reviewer you are when you say dmc4 enemies are not designed for dante just because you can't combo an enemy it doesn't mean the enemy is bad I wonder what's your opinion on the new god of wars

Yeah this is another disappointing take on DmC😢 And yes I may come from loving this version, it's obvious it's not perfect. But oh my god.......Sir no life, you realize you can parry that Hunter boss' blade right?😂 Also badass moments AREN'T indicative of good characterizations or good storytelling. Just ask the mediocre state of Disney+ Marvel superhero series coming out that last few years. It's been over a decade now. Go love DMC all you want. That Dante isn't bad. He's highy entertaining..... But to treat him like he's a masterpiece is insane. HIS characterization wasn't even consistent! You people only liked Reuben Langdon's version from 3 and they tried to keep that consistent to 5. And let's not even begin the barely taped together lore for Vergil. His manga and novels did all the heavy work but that couldn't be put on the game? ....yeah idk Capcom🥱