fun fact: the old director of dmc2 is solely responsible for the tonal shift in dante's personality cause he personally didnt like wiseass, joke cracking characters like dante

Tom Holland: reveals minor detail about Spider-Man Dan Southworth: reveals Devil May Cry 5, after years of radio silence from Capcom and a shitty reboot

Figured I'd throw in a few pieces of trivia here, in case anyone's curious! -Devil May Cry 1 was originally going to have quick-time events, but the dev team had to beg Kamiya not to include them due to already working to the bone on the game. (Source: Devil May Cry 3-1-4-2 Graphic Arts, Page 201) -Daigo Ikeno, Capcom artist and character, enemy and stage designer for Devil May Cry 2, revealed several tidbits about the game's development: That it was mostly scrapped together through the staff of Capcom's Arcade Division, given the greenlight by Capcom before DMC1 had even finished production, and that the decision to make Dante more taciturn was due to the producer of the game not liking Dante's wisecracking personality in DMC1. (Source: Devil May Cry 3-1-4-2 Graphic Arts, Page 204) -The Devil May Cry 3-1-4-2 Art Book was re-released in Japan a few months prior to DMC5's release. It was updated to include DMC4SE artwork and some concept art from DMC5, as well as the inclusion of crossover content from the last few years, such as Dante's appearance in Marvel VS Capcom Infinite, and his costume in Monster Hunter World in the "Extras" section, and some new interviews. It was released a few weeks prior to Capcom officially changing the timeline's order to 3-1-2-4. The original printing of the book was also recently rereleased in a hardcover form. (Source: www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-Book-Graphic-Japanese-Version/dp/4862464351) -A playable version of Vergil was found in the base version of Devil May Cry 5 shortly after release. It was only the boss version with the Yamato moveset, and Matt Walker would later go on to confirm that this was left in the game for testing the boss moveset (Source: www.siliconera.com/capcoms-matt-walker-talks-about-devil-may-cry-5-vergil-lady-and-trish-dmc5se/) -Other features found in the files included an unused taunt for Nero (Source: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mL6iirCSrMCXnps.html), an unfinished version of Vergil's World Of V; called "Kiss Of Death" (Sources: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZuUa7ZmzK7aYJ8.html and devilmaycry.fandom.com/wiki/Removed_content#Moves), Clear Artwork for the Dante battle in Mission 20 (Source: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZ5_a6ucnLPKlHk.html), and text files relating to, among other things, Nero's Deluxe Edition Breakers, the Super Costumes for Dante, Nero and V, items relating to Goliath, Artemis, Geryon and Gilgamesh that are otherwise acquired via cutscenes, and text for an unused Co-Op Bloody Palace Mode. (Source: devilmaycry.fandom.com/wiki/Removed_content#Files) -In addition to various gameplay tweaks, DmC Definitive Edition changed several cutscenes. (All sources will be via this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNKfidqVy5_Ffpc.html) Examples include, but might not be limited to: -The shortening of Lillith's "The world is at last your bitch, as am I," line. The original version had her continue with; "Nothing left but to grab it by the hair, bend it over and fu-," before she's cut off by Mundus. (1:40) -Perhaps the most well known, the removal of Vergil's fedora in the Mission 2 cutscenes (20:03) -A new cutscene prior to Mission 16 was added (2:08:25) -Rather than zooming in onto Dante's demonic eyes, the final shot of the game has Dante and Kat walk away before Dante grabs Kat's ass. (2:45:27) -The manual of DMC2 includes mention of Easy Automatic Mode, in spite of it not actually being in the game. (Source: Devil May Cry 2 Manual, Page 16) -Speaking of DMC2's source code, when the leak dropped, people went through in an attempt to modify parts of the game, only to find out changing even one value of the code causes the game to not start at all. So much for modding it into something better. (Source: arch.b4k.co/v/thread/534659332/#534665835) -The infamous "dark soul with liiiight" line from DMC1 actually had multiple takes done of it. The chosen take was picked by Kamiya himself as he felt the voice crack made the scene more emotional. (Source: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdiAe7GnzNTHoH0.html)

Me: *sees a DMC iceberg video on my recomended and it's an hour long* Also Me: "The time has come, and so have I."

I agree with 1up, Lady is a VERY WELL DESIGNED character

Oh shit, he actually does know what sex is. Absolute chad in the end.

My favourite quote from the Deadly Fortune translation: „After the puppy is a fish... you are a beastmaster...“ ~Dante

The old Devil May Cry books now being Canon makes DMC way more insane

"Devil May Cry 3D" is the embodiment of "We have Devil May Cry 3 at home"

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that “Majin” translates to English as “devil”. So Majin Devil Trigger means Devil Devil Trigger. I love when shit like that happens because it’s so funny. Like how Los Angeles has a baseball team called The Angels. Los Angeles is spanish, and when translated the team name is “The Angels Angels”.

Wouldve been cool to mention that in exchange for Dante being in SMT Nocturne, Kazuma Kaneko, the artist for the Megami Tensei franchise, designed the Devil Triggers from DMC 3, its why he's credited in every game where they use Dante's DMC 3 design like Marvel vs Capcom n shit.

13 year old me was a badass. Beat DMC3 and just found out there was an easy mode.

Surprised there isnt a part about the Devil May Cry Netflix anime. Wonder if that's in development Hell?

that mobile dmc 3d game looked cute tho lol

*Fun fact:* When Itsuno arrived in DMC2 production, he asked the team what they had done, and they only had (that weak ass) stinger move done. Rumors says the team originally wanted a Tomb Raider clone when creating the "original DMC2", which explains the gameplay mechanics and Lucia as MC. When Capcom demanded a DMC sequel, the game turned into DMC and Capcom placed the unknown director in it, which infuriated Kamiya.

1:47 As someone named Alex that shit fucking gave me a heart attack.

I'm late, but Tony Redgrave also appeared in the DmC reboot as a achievement after you kill lots of demons with guns.

Damn no one seems to know about the Vergil clone created by mundus that’s just chilling somewhere in the dmc universe

Also Majin DT appear in DMC3 manga, when Alice is draining Dante's power, he goes majin devil trigger.

A few other miscellaneous theories, I remember one theory floating around before DMC5 launched was that Kryie was pregnant and that was the reason they didn't show her in game model before the game's release. Doesn't hold up very well since we never see her anyway but I still think it's a possibility. Berial (DMC4 boss) being Mundus' son. I don't remember any actual evidence but multiple other people I've talked to have at least heard this theory. Nero's "Fuck you" and Dante saying "Think you can beat me? Not in a million years" during Vergil's fights in DMC5 are jabs at DmC. Arkham was a librarian in Fortuna which is where he meets Vergil before DMC3. This explains Arkham's knowledge of Sparda and ties Vergil's opening scenes from 3 and 4 together. Olives. I think it's in one of the novels that says Dante exclusively orders his pizzas with pepperoni and olives despite actively disliking them. Vergil's having Beowulf in DMC5 is canon. It's been stated that Dante always sells his devil arms after a mission and that's why he doesn't have them in the next game. During Vergil's years after being Nelo Angelo he actively sought out his old weapons and managed to find Beowulf. He then reclaimed Yamato at the beginning of 5 but was never able to reclaim Sparda obviously because it was in the possession of Dante and Trish. This is why he uses the Mirage Edge instead. Along with the last one, Before the Nightmare shows Trish using the Artemis against Urizen, which is why it's kind of weird that Lady ends up as Artemis' power source instead.

Damn...you know you're insanely deep in a fandom when you know 95% of the iceberg list already.

What a beast of a video. Although I am a casual DmC fan, I'm surprised I didn't know like 95% of these things. Not that I'm complaining, it's really interesting to see these games and the game's universe in a new perspective. Great job, Spartan. I hope more people will see this.

Just thought that in DMC5, The 'Sin' in SDT makes a lot of sense as Vergil and Dante both had to essentially try to kill themselves with their weapons, and the "sinful" act of suicide places you in the 7th Circle of Hell where your soul becomes a gnarled tree making up a huge forest, and since the Qliphoth is a giant demonic metaphor for the Sparda family tree you battle your way around, up, and back down again..? Might have just talked myself out of this vague connection actually XD

"As far as DMC3 was concerned, he said you don't even have to explicitly say it's a parallel world." So...is this another hint that Kamiya only cares about the DMC canon he made?

"How do you pronounce Hyne?" I'd pronounce it as Hine, a single syllable word.

33:05 that line is an Easter egg for the ending cutscene when you beat DMD in DMC1, right when Dante and Beatrice (Trish) escape Île Mallet on that biplane. It surprised me as well after just barely beating DMD --with-- using over one hundred yellow orbs, over ten Untouchables, and a whole bunch of patience. Protip: holy waters are broken

*Sees the ammount of adds in the video* "LET'S FUCKIN' GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

For anyone interested on the other ways the Sengoku Basara franchise met with Devil May Cry, here's a little fun fact list -SB has a history of joke weapons and additional silly costumes being obtainable throughout the game ; in Sengoku Basara 4 Masamune can wear a Dante costume as mentionned in the video, and in Sengoku Basara the first™ his joke weapon is suspiciously looking like a DMC sword -Katakura Kojuro, Masamune's retainer, is voiced by the same VA as Dante in japanese -Character designer Makoto Tsuchibayashi worked on the first Devil May Cry game as well as Sengoku Basara first three main games and I would def recommand checking out his concept arts bc they look sick -DMC 4 producer, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, also produced almost all the games from the Sengoku Basara franchise, the only exception being the very last one, Yukimura-den Sengoku Basara is a bigger franchise in Japan that it is in western countries, with only two games localized, and only one of those two (Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes) with the original names and with no gameplay alteration Footage in the video is from Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes (or Sengoku Basara 3)

nero being vergil's son is as much of a plot twist as revealing that buzz is a toy and not a space ranger.

Thank you for calling out Jojo Wifi. He and RandomBlackGamer have been a plague on KZfaq for DMC "content", given that they feel the need to make entire videos covering a sentence that someone from Capcom uttered offhandedly, or some random message a DMC fan dropped, and then spin speculation on it like it's monumental in the future of DMC projects and lore. Typically their videos begin by repeating the title of their video, followed by begging for followers and ways for them to earn money, then spending a few minutes talking about whatever the subject is with absolutely zero credible proof or sources on the matter. If they want to talk about their own personal ideas, that's perfectly fine. But they need to stop dressing it up as breaking news or confirmations from official sources when it couldn't be farther from that.

Weirdly, I've never really internalized Vergil being Nero's father until DMC 5 confirmed it because it seemed such a hackneyed idea to me, especially since it came out of nowhere and wasn't expanded upon in DMC 4. Some people did the math on Vergils and Neros age and the implications just seem out of tone with DMC. At least DMC5 did something with it, so all's well that ends well I guess.

I can imagine Gilver returning and acting as kind of a rival in a future DMC game. Especially if the whole demon replica thing is true. Imagine a Vergil focused DMC where he's stalked by his twisted mirror image. Shit sounds sweet.

Seeing translations of DMC4 light novels makes me feel like I'm playing am H game

I have a feeling that, If the Devil Sword Dante and Yamato does fuse together then Nero is going to be the one who will wield it since both brothers has to give up both of their swords and powers, just to craft the most powerful sword in the entire universe. Most likely to be used against the new form of Mundus or some other powerful demon we haven't heard about. DMC6 anyone?

I don't know if you're still interested, but in regards to Gilver, what the wiki says is basically true. In the Before the Nightmare novel, it's stated that Mundus took battle data from Sparda, Dante, and Vergil to make "Black Knights" that wore armor made by Machiavelli, and sent them after Dante and Vergil. However, it's never said outright that this was Gilver. It's just implied since Gilver was stated to be wearing armor in the DMC1 novel, and would explain the Vergil similarities. It's really just the only thing that makes sense and fits with canon since Gilver is somewhat still seemingly implied to have existed. The implication comes from Morrison reminiscing about the events of the DMC1 novel in his first respective chapter of the BTN novel. This includes everything Gilver did, even if again, Gilver is never directly named. It's possible that it's not outright stated to be Gilver because of the perspective we get in this section of the novel. This is in the Trish chapter of the novel, and since Trish didn't exist at this point in time, and therefore wasn't involved, it makes sense that she would only have general knowledge. As for why Morrison never named Gilver, Morrison never knew Gilver was behind things. He wasn't present for most of the Gilver related incidents, so it again makes a sort of sense that he wouldn't name him. Still, it's all vague enough that if you *really* wanted to argue against this, you could. To source all this, you can read the summery of the Trish chapter here: drive.google.com/file/d/1sehBInbkahYDqQ3NzV3nyHPKljIdLysp/view or read this broken translation of the novel here: ia801006.us.archive.org/25/items/cr4theoriginaldevilmaycry/Devil%20May%20Cry%205%20-%20Before%20The%20Nightmare%20-%20EN.pdf It's easiest to just CRTL+F Trish's name to find the chapter.

*sees 900 ads* “Eh, this guy deserves the revenue”

Dante: Wohoo, yeah! Crazy... Depressed Dante: ...crazy how I still havent ended it all.

Very interesting video and very well researched. Did you think of adding the similarly rumored Dante in Soul Calibur 3? it seems because his inclussion in SMT3 it was popular to guess Dante would be added to whatever random game on the PS2 era.

The pachinko OSTs are godlike And something I like to always say about the DMC movie is that it already exists. Versus 2000 was a movie that apparently helped inspire Dantes character but Ive yet to see a source to confirm this, the movie itself is amazing and its basically the best live action DMC movie we will ever get. Also Inafune is responsible for doing the same fk Ninja Gaiden as well, and apparently DMC2 being a Lucia game at first I find interesting

21:33 it's kinda crazy how that's the only time we ever saw Dante with alcohol in his hand, like not even the games showing Dante gets drunk

Curious enough, i'm from LATAM and in the spanish text of DMC5, "Sin Devil Trigger" is translated to "Devil Trigger Real", so for LATAM we call it "True Devil Trigger". I think that it was a detail worth mentioning after seeing the video

Well, that last part isn't out of character for Jojo Wifi. He loves to spread misinformation, and has been stealing content from community members for a long time. To the point that people legitimately put warnings and watermarks calling him out on it. Hitchhiker is responsible for making some of the most popular DMC5 mods out there and he's personally barred Jojo Wifi from putting footage of them on his channel. Trust me, he's well known.

Huge, Mundus-sized missed opportunity to call it the "Devil May Criceberg"

That Ninja Theory PowerPoint presentation will never not be funny.

Good video, gameplay related topics were a bit bare which is honestly what needs the spotlight the most but other than that well done. Heads up about Jojo Wifi though. He's been known to harass other members of the DMC community. Him and John Fleer have practically made a business off posting clickbait videos with distinctly false information like what you said about his video on the Sparda PSP game but that's not the only one. They've also publicly attacked and insulted community members and DMC5 modders blaming them for 5SE not getting a PC release. They both have very defensive fanbases and use them aggressively to dox and spam anyone who called them out on their BS.

Great video! Also, 33:05 not exactly a new line. It's a cut down version of the line Dante says when you beat the first Devil May Cry on DMD mode. I'm surprised that's not on the iceberg, not a lot of people know about it since you'd normally skip the cutscenes

I did not know I wanted this video but boy am I glad that the youtube recs got me here. Watched this in one go, super well researched and highly entertaining.

Yeah about that Sparda True sword, its kinda explains how sparda died, his power was only a third of his full power, maybe he died warding of the first Mundus wave of demons, the second one cost eva. i hope if DMC 6 ever happenned they will dig deeper into that, maybe involve Nero via time travel or something, Maybe meeting Nero will trigger Sparda interest in modern weaponry by seeing this strange fella with robot arm and a magnum hence creating Luce & Ombra.

Interesting thing to note about the "Majin" form is that the naming convention wouldn't even make sense in the Japanese version, as Devil Trigger is called Majin (as that literally means demon).

Fun fact: if you dig around forums where programmers talk about J2ME emulation DMC 3D is usually brought up because of how hard it is to emulate, I think only recently someone managed to get the graphics running properly. Also the odd mission structure was just the approach Capcom had at that time when adapting games to phones, Resident Evil the Missions 3D is very similar.

Cool video, covered a lot of great stuff on here. Also that translation for Deadly Fortune is amazing, I never read either of those. One other notes about the difficulty change in 3 though is that is apparently wasn’t even the first time they did that. In DMC1 on PS2 in the west on normal and hard you did 20% less damage and took 20% more damage on all difficulties. I didn’t know about that until very recently so it’s interesting how we got the harder version of these games twice. Also DMC3 vanilla here didn’t even have the good grace to give you any yellow orbs when you started like 1 did, you had to buy them all. Also I had no idea there was so little info about the PSP game. I legitimately thought the whole Dance Of Sparda subtitle was true so thanks for debunking it.

I checked out the first bit of that play. It was actually kinda sick how they were showing off Royal guard and judgement cuts on stage

>mentions Keiji Inafune >puts X6 music when talking about DmC you absolutely KNEW what you were doing

hey I've been meaning to comment on this video for like a week; this is a really well made video! It flows really well, from what I can tell you did a lot of research into the topics, and I especially like how the layers are all style rankings. I love when media does that!

The proposed DS version of the surely nonexistent Dance of Sparda is probably in reference to the initials of the game being "DS". Capcom did this before with Resident Evil Deadly Silence, a DS remake of Resident Evil 1.

At least Dante proposed to something... even if it was just a mop. Lookin’ at you, *Vergil.*

30:00 I'll be waiting for you to *сum* Man, wise words... 😔

39:40 Unconfirmed, like you said, but just to make it an even safer guess: The achievement you get for defeating Arkham in the HD Collection version of 3, is called "Asylum".

Bruh vergil is neros father and yet they look the same age lmao. In fact it seems dantes the only one who actually looks older

I powered through all the adds to watch this video, I followed this Saga since 2007 after I discovered DMC3 and still found such good information, man I still remember how hard was to find anything about the game with the then limits of the internet so getting all of it in just one nice video is awesome, amazing work, BTW DMC2 novel is lie, we all know Dante is a 40 year old virgin, Vergil is the real Chad here

Honestly since you've mentioned Dante been depressed over losing Vergil hit hard but im glad Dante and Vergil are together now so neither are alone anymore

Yes you "Alex" Me, sitting in a lawn chair spitting out my soda "GHW-"

You're inspiring me to do one of these about Quake 1, great video dude.

Dance of Sparda was clearly a dancing side game for the series in the vein of persona 4 dancing all night.

Whole ass hour when u can summarize dmc in 1 word Get good kid

What a great video I see! Thank you for this,there's very few people who talk of Devil May Cry beside the gameplay. Good job, king.

"Gilver is Nelo's clone" was briefly mentioned in Before the Nightmare, though it's confusing even there

Rather than Dante, electing to go to demon world with Vergil, is that Vergil went WITH Dante. Dante went cause he knows what havoc demons with wreck in human world when they run rampart. Vergil on the other hand went with Dante because of what he experienced himself in demon world so he goes there to protect his little brother. Vergil once said that he needs more power in order to protect himself from what happened once. And what happened was that his family was wiped out. He also though that they are dead, he just wasn't lucky enough to be found by Morrison like person. Vergil deeply cares about his brother, far more than Dante ever cared for him. In dmc3 he had many opportunities to kill Dante yet he still didn't. That's only because he wanted to protect him. With Vergil comeback now reuniting with his son, and about to meet his grandchild, we can expect nothing more than ultra fast Kratos style transformation from abandoned broken man into family loving man.

I'm actually kinda surprised there hasn't been a prequel where Sparda is the main character and we play through the backstory we know+ the reason why a demon wants to protect the humans. Ofc because of Eva but how did they meet? Stuff like that. Just seems like easy money to me haha

9:22 FUN FACT: In the Spanish Translation of DMC5, SDT is called "Devil Trigger Real" Which is literally "True Devil Trigger", But it can also be translated as "Royal Devil Trigger". I cant believe the spanish translators did that one correcrly but the final line of Nero's was fucked in the translation...

I was hoping that the WII DMC would've been a prototype with motion controls. That would've been so cool

Thanks for making such a great video! It is so cool to get to know so many of these things and to see you mention so many that I got to experience over the years! Anyway, I'll be looking forward for more videos like this!

I would adore a Prequel game based around Sparda and the whole War, maybe even some references to Bayo with Eva as an Umbra Witch and such, maybe even with said Eva playable, a nice mix of how Trish, Bayo or Dante play.

aw damn, beat me to the punch! I was planning on making one of these myself, but I guess I was too late lol. amazing job though man!

45:48 oh trust me, reading up gaming histories and trivias was like, how I would spend most of my free time as a kid.

1:48 I finally feel included thank you

glad to see you throw in a shout out to Woolie and the Super Best friends, their DMC3 & 4 Lps are the ones I replay the most XD

Fun Fact one of the writers for DMC did Kamen Rider Noboru Sugimura , he pass away in the mid 2000'S

19:22 To add onto this, many fans believe Dante's return to his jovial personality was caused by discovering Nero and who he is. I mean after losing your brother twice, this time him actually dying (let's be real did anyone think he was actually alive after 1) and you've been alone and depressed over his death for 7 years, only to find out you do have 1 family member left in the word. (I also headcanon that if Dante found out about Nero post DMC1 he probably would have kidnapped and raised him himself.)

I've dreamt of this video for a little while and I randomly found this while rewatching your Doom videos.

I'm glad I clicked on this because I didn't know about the optional player Co-Op during the doopleganger ability or Arkham fight with Vergil, until I saw this. Though to be fair I could've learned it from Matt, Pat, and Woolie's let's play video. But since I haven't beaten Nevan yet, I didn't want spoilers.

get this video trending

Really really great video! Love from Italy.

I can't imagine that in a Devil May Cry Iceberg I would discover why Dreamwave have ended up

her: I wonder what he is doing, is he cheating on me? Me and the bois: ``watching the DMC musical``

I remember getting majin devil trigger by accident in dmc2 against those damn heads But I could’ve sworn I activated it against Mundas too in Dmc1, activating it the same way as in dmc 2

Incredibly well put together video and I'm very happy that you linked all of the sources so I can go down a seperate rabbit hole on my own

22:50 - Oh hey, he was one of my faves in Jungle Fury.

Found this by chance in my recommendations and this was awesome!! Good job with all that research!!

1:48 - That spooked me 0_0

Hot take: the reboot is a good game but a bad DMC game, it's fun and I love the music probably the second best in the series, the deigns wouldn't even be a bad thing if the characters had acted the part. I don't mind Virgil wearing a fedora but when he starts talking about his eggplant... Yes.. Yes I mind that.

LMAOOO Oh my god, that beat-em-up pixel phone game gave me a nostalgia trip; I had that in high school, HAHA.

I’ve played all of 1,3,4,5 most of 2 and just a little bit of the reboot. I’m ready to watch

That wii footage hurts my elbow just looking at it

dmc 6 is coming, but not for another few years. Adi Shankar, the castlevania anime creator, has the rights to DMC, and is going to be making dmc. i cant post links in comment sections w/out youtube flipping its shit, so you'll need to find the articles on your own (which isnt hard).

One thing I remember about the DMC PSP game the original idea it was going to be a game about the legendary Dark Knight Sparta

Awesome video dude. Love me some hour long dmc content. Kinda feel like if we delve into that dmc2 source code we might find the original director or at least some interesting stuff about how the game was developed.

52:43 Oh hey! I had this game! A classmate sent me this game to my phone! It was sluggish! I never went too far

I'm sorry, Devil May Cry had a musical?! I'd give my soul to see it!

in the dmc2 in-game weapons file, force edge is listed as "handguns". (i haven't tried to see if thats the same with rebellion, i saw it first with force edge)