Arcade Sushi: It’s like Stallone in Judge Dredd, or Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Dracula – everything else about the entire title effectively works, but its main character just keeps ruining your experience the more and more you see them. Many of us have encountered some form of these 10 Protagonists Who Ruined Great Games in our ventures, but most of the time our love for the overall title may have clouded our judgment of its less-than-stellar star. Sure, maybe putting in 30+ hours into a game might soften your disliking of the character, but there was something there that was just.. off. So let’s ignore the supporting cast members who carried it all while we air out 10 Protagonists Who Ruined Great Games!
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."
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
Clive actor Ben Starr plays kiss, marry, kill with Final Fantasy characters, and decides to off Cid from Final Fantasy 12.
Ew VO actors and their cringe core. Fiverr voice actors could out perform this chump.
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."
Tidus ruined FFX lol I agree that he is not the best character, still I got a nice laugh !
FFX is an amazing game no one ruined it!
Heck all of those games are quite good therefore not ruined, except for DmC imo, I couldn't stand that Dante and the gameplay compared to other DMC was a joke it didn't help at all; this articles should be titled "10 protagonist that I don't like"!
I contend that while FF12 was a good game there was nothing "final" or very much "fantasy" about it. That it was more an extra special slice of life from a fantasy world than something which would have ended it if the portrayed failed.
Damn I like Johnny Klebitz and Raiden :/