Favourite Devil May Cry Game?

[AbbathTheGrim]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

You're mis-remembering about DMC1 I think..

Yes, the Shadow song is the one I had in mind. I love this little fucker, look at him go!

1:11

https://youtu.be/ntVTVSZd-dQ?t=71

He's so fucking cute! He attacks even when he is vulnerable.

I didn't regard DMC3 as atmospheric. It felt more action-oriented in terms of character and presentation.

There is something about textures in the game that make walls feel somewhat flat and drawn.

The "return to form" I mentioned about DMC4 is more akin to a feel. Perhaps we could have different opinions about it, but there is something about lightning and shadows, and character animations (Dante/Nero in DMC4 feels solid and has a flow of movement that I find similar to DMC1).

DmC feels a lot like DMC3, the character feels lightweight and as if it "skips" animations or frames in exchange for fast executions of movements and attacks, and change of animations. It's hard to explain, but to me both DMC3 and DmC give me this feeling like the character you are moving (and the characters you are fighting against) are hallowed and/or are floating in the air.

Plus, as far as I remember, DMC4 feels a lot more "medieval", as in having places with cathedrals and enemies with shields and armors.

DMC4 is certainly very colorful and has very bright set pieces, but there is something about illumination and shadows that make it atmospheric in some scenes, like for example:

DMC4

https://youtu.be/XnjE2OV_hhI?t=3520

DMC1

https://youtu.be/A-oyH0L-Bbk?t=3537

"Shadows" in DMC3:

https://youtu.be/KHgdzShuwww?t=1827

It's like instead of proper lightning and shadows, what we have in DMC3 are environments in which "shadows" are drawn in the textures instead of occlusion by shadows. I think there are some exceptions to this though.

DMC4 to me is closer to the first one although as I said, it still isn't the same. That is why I compared DMC4 as a mixture of DMC1 and 3. 

Yes, Dante is very over-the-top in DMC4, specially that dramatic "presentation" he did in one of his last missions. lol

I didn't read your last paragraph because you started talking about DMC5 and I haven't played it yet so, no spoilers for me. lol