| Khuutra said: 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. |
First of all, trying to draw credibility by saying the ever so original "played everything". Good job but we've all been there, done that.
Switching between weapons means nothing, Kamiya would be very dissapointed at the gamers who played his games to the fullest. Still doesn't say anything about how it looks more like Gow than DMC and Bayonetta. No wait, if there is a sword AND a gun it could also be the spiritual successor to Final fantasy VIII !
The DMC soundtracks had some of the best industrial beats and riffs. It's all sampled nothing rock about that. The "scene" is like 25 years old since Skinny Puppy invented it.
Yeah, Dante is all about over the top absurdity and killer one liners. Not a Jacob and Edward combination with eye liner. The only character that has ever come close as an attitude is Garcia fucking Hotspur from Shadows of the Damned.
By saying they embraced the stupidity as a whole, you are simply generalizing and failing to make any short of connection between the DMC characters and Donte's cast.
DMC 2 was not the best game ever. We have an original thinker in the house ! You realise you just said, its ok that didi may cry is crap as long as it is better than another crap game... great logic !
