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Khuutra on 14 August 2012
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DigitalDevilSummoner said:
Khuutra said:

A stupid-looking punk main character, ear-scorching rock soundtrack, high-octane combo-based gameplay, demons, a story that makes no sense, a cast that I cannot possibly care about

Yeah this is Devil May Cry

Edit: Good trailer by the way, will eventually be playing this

No, he is a wannabe teenage heart throb. The soundtrack is combichrist which is the most unoriginal, mainstream, by the numbers industrial dance band there is.

It's a yawn based gameplay, with a whip, of all weapons a whip, A WHIP ! The story is the classic " society hates me" teenage problem. Lady, Trish and Vergil were kinda inescapable not to notice.

 

Yeah this is another brilliant Devil May Cry analysis. As I said above, the profile of the average Donte may cry supporter is a gamer who doesn't care about Devil May Cry.

THanks for the armchair analysis of my action game cred Darth Hombre, but to be clear I have curb-stomped the living shit out of Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 3 during one of my periodic action game kicks. This would be around the same time I went apeshit on Ninja Gaiden Black, and just before I beat Bayonetta into the ground. The finer points of these games do not escape me.

The gameplay footage we've seen of Dante - this Dante - is primarily about him fighting with a sword and switching up to two guns. Some of the combos they've shown are literally lifted right from DmC3. The presence of non-sword weapons should not be disconcerting to you; they were half the reason to play DMC3 in the first place.

And absolutely terrible rock is a staple of the series, regardless of your knowledge of the specific bands involved. As a guy who isn't part of that "scene" and thinks the music in all DMC games is effectively garbage, this fits perfectly.

Wannabe teenage heart-throb? Have you seen Dante as he was in the original games? The waifish bishounen douchebag with a constantly exposed chest? Granted he's more of a male power fantasy than trying to appeal to women directly, but so is this Dante, it's just according to a Western idea of what qualifies as a punk character versus the anime ideal of the same.

Lady, Trish, and Vergil were STUPID. The whole series was STUPID. It embraced this stupidity, and that is a big part of what made the series great. This game, by all appearances, is doing exactly the same thing.

As a guy who tends to refrain from making lightning-quick judgements on people who he's never spoken to before, I have got to say, this is actually shaping up pretty well for a Western-made spiritual successor to DmC. Hell of a lot better than the second one.