Why you should not waste your money on the new Devil may Cry: Devil May Cry

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Actually, those words never left his mouth. He said it was a good game, but it was hindered by the fact that it was trying to be cool, but wasn't.

 

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I'm sorta glad that hack and slash games are really not my thing right now.

 

I'll buy something that's rated 3/5, but I won't g into it with high expectations.


tbh I don't read or listen to reviews of games that I care about. I like to form my own opinion without the chance of it being influenced by the opinion of someone else.

 

So... I'll confess. I've bought the game.
I said I wasn't gonna but I decided to watch some of the Let's Play's.

Regardless of that, here is my take on all this:

Gameplay wise, this game seems good.
The thing I don't like is that they've made a completely different story and the characters are so different to the original, that they've then slapped on the Devil May Cry name to it etc to like capitalize from a great series.
If they had simply made this a new stand alone series that had no connection to Devil May Cry (so... change the names of the characters etc and that would be it, near enough nothing accept the fact it has demons and stuff in it would have connected it), it would probably have avoided a lot of the hate. People might have said, "Oh it's similar to Devil May Cry" but it would have been taken as what it was since since other games have similar game play systems, and it would have been taken as something different.

As an example (Admittedly exaggerated and silly, but it's to try and show a point), look at Bayonetta. Made by the same people and similar game play in a way, blah. If they had suddenly said "So yeah, we're calling this Devil May Cry: The Witch files. Where you can play as a gender swapped Dante called Dantelina."
Everyone would have raged. But no, Bayonetta (as well as actually having a different story that was really good) was original and made to 'be' original. (And god damn it was awesome)...



The thing with the original games is that they had that familiar feeling to them like wearing a pair of slippers you've owned for a year or two. They're good, they're nostalgic and they're comfortable with their own sort of charm.
It's not so much that alone this game would have been bad if it were standing alone, but because of the name people naturally are like. "Oh no! The first games were much better!"
This game has a more... dirty and gritty feel with it. It's not a bad thing to try and tackle, but it doesn't suit the other 'charm' that the original games had. It's just a radical difference.


Next up are the characters. Again... New Dante will naturally be compared to old Dante because of the fact they're 'meant to be' the same character with the same name, but just... aren't.
If Donte as people call him had been some other new protagonist with a name of his own regardless of his tendency to swear too much, then he probably would have been fine and people would have just taken him as... "This guy is a dick." But that's all they would have had to say on the matter then. He might still have gotten hate for reasons stated above like just being a ****** or whatever it was (I can't be bothered to find quotes for specific examples), but a big chunk of the hate comes from people saying "He's not Dante." Which I completely agree. He isn't and shouldn't be. (and that wig scene was frankly just stupid).
The fact is Dante was badass in his own way and you might notice, he didn't even swear that much at all while Donte's main vocabulary seems to only consist of the words "Fúck off/Fúck you."
They have their own unique types of wit to them, but they're at least in my opinion, different from each other.




(TLDR?)In short...
Devil May Cry (the first games I mean) was epic and earned it's place.

...DMC...
It should have been it's own thing and then nobody probably would have noticed such a difference to hate it as much as it has been in the first place.

 

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings 86% (PS3)[35] 86.70% (360)[36]
Review scores
PublicationScore
1UP.com A[37]
Eurogamer 8/10[38]
Game Informer 9/10[39]
GameSpot 8/10[40]
GameTrailers 9/10[41]
IGN 8.9/10[42]
Joystiq [43]

 

Except replace EA and Mass Effect with Capcom and DmC

 

That still leaves 6 other websites.

 

Well, I was kinda referring to every site, not just IGN. We all know IGN isn't the only site that accepts fat wads of money in return for a good score.

 

For a game you really hate you sure like to dedicate your time to bitch about it.

Just let people enjoy a game.