Dean Humphreys writes:
"Devil May Cry, the Ninja Theory developed reboot of the much loved CAPCOM series, has been one of the most talked about games this year, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
Since the game was first revealed in 2010, fans have been up in arms over a number of things, most notably, the redesign of series protagonist Dante.
Instead of being the cool, suave, white haired hero we’ve all come to know and love, he is now a childish, immature, black haired “rebel.” A lot of the naysayers (myself included) were simply dismissed by the devs as being nothing more than petty fanboys, their reason being that since the studio that originally made DmC had passed the project on, it was okay if Dante was different. As long as everything else was the same, why should we even worry?"
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5
2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.
Huzaifah from eXputer: "Devil May Cry 5, the latest iteration in the iconic DMC franchise by Capcom, still holds its own as a fantastic hack-and-slash in 2024."
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The combat system in general feels like it has no depth to it and feels slow and clunky. Combos are too easy to pull off and it feels like they don’t chain into even crazier ones."
True also very easy enemys there is no fun in that..
great article thatts actually from a DMC fan unlike those paid off articles from ign.
What people that like this crap don't understand is that, the original DmC makes people wanna pull off awesome combos while trying not to get hit by anyone.... To achieve perfection. If anyone thinks this game has awesome combos shud go watch some youtube clips. I don't care if he looks like rihanna, the game run at 60fs atleast and should have complex n coool combos. Imo DMC(original) is the best sword game everrrrrr in terms of skill and finesse. Ninja gaiden 2(xbox) comes second.
I don't know what the big deal is. it's just a video game after all. Some people enjoy videos games and characters that other people consider, crap or lame. I rather play a game I really like. Then to play a game everyone considers its great, just because its popular. So yea at the end of the day, people who just want to play video games, won't mind if a series gets a sequel or a reboot, or a character and series, is RE-Imagine, like Dante and the dmc series.
Instead of being the cool, suave, white haired hero we’ve all come to know and love, he is now a childish, immature, black haired “rebel"""
I agree... this Dante is not as charismatic as the original =( The original Dante is very comical, and has powerfull demon powers not like BS angel powers (wtf)