gigantor21 on 22 January 2013
The reaction to this game has made me embarrassed to call myself a DMC fan.
And yeah, DMC4 was undercooked to say the least. The story was a half-baked mess, Nero didn't hold a candle to Dante as a protaganist (in no small part due to his whining over Kyrie), the puzzles were clunky bullshit, and the overall design was lazy and rushed. The combat was the only solid aspect of the game, which is hardly medal-worthy since it just tinkered with the excellent model DMC3 put up.
While it wasn't as boring as DMC2, DMC4 clearly showed that adhering to the old model is no guarantee of a quality product. That's why the rabid reaction to the reboot made little sense to me, despite having plenty of problems with Ninja Theory's handling of it.
