A203D said:
Wrong again DMC4 fan. Dante has changed in every DMC game. Ninja Theory changed the character because Capcom wanted a hero you could emphathise with. As opposed to this:
As much as you might like DMC4. This character is NOT Dante. It is a poor imitation at best. Even the creator of the DMC series, Hideki Kamiya, has confirmed that the only true Dante is the original character from DMC1. Who was not a goofball. What your reffering to is the camp imposter from the picture above. Either way blaming Ninja Theory for changing Dante is ridiculous. Dante has changed in every DMC game. Only the original character is the true iteration of Dante. DmC Dante is simply a new iteration of the character. DMC4 Dante is a ridiculous camp jester, he's not like DMC1 Dante what so ever, making those awful homoerotic poses (see above). Failing to understand that is NOT Ninja Theory's fault. |
You've certainly made quite a few assumptions in this last post.
At any rate, yes, you're certainly right, Dante has changed from game to game. However, there's a difference between a character changing in personality as they get older, i.e. character development, and vastly changing a character altogether.
For example, Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney series changes quite a bit inbetween games. In the original trilogy, he's a loveable dork who runs a "take down evil" mantra as best he can. In Apollo Justice, he's a shady, disbarred sham who's lost a good portion of his moral compass. In DD, he's an older, wiser attorney who knows what he's doing but still retains some of his old lawyer self. That's a character changing between games. He's still the same character, but his personality shifts.
What would be ridiculous, however, is bringing in a reboot of Ace Attorney, sticking in a Phoenix Wright who smokes, curses at every turn like it's the coolest thing that anyone could ever do, and brings strippers home to his trailer to have casual sex, and then calling that the exact same character as before. The two are absolutely nothing alike. You could remove the name "Phoenix Wright" and no one would even make the correlation.
It's the same way here. While Dante from DMC4 certainly is much more out there than probably any other Dante in the series, he's silly enough that I wouldn't have much trouble recognizing him from DMC1. Same goes with DMC3. The only case where this doesn't really apply is DMC2, and that game was god awful.
Even if Dante DID change dramatically from each game, though, he'd still be an awful character in DmC simply because he fails on all levels as an empathizable or funny character. His idea of cool is to throw every curse word he knows at an enemy, he acts like a complete butthole to everyone, and the game never develops him as a character at all. He just goes from not caring about anything to suddenly caring about a certain girl.
It's not that I blame anyone for changing a character, it's that I'm blaming them for changing a character beyond any point of recognizable personality and changing them in such a god awful way.
