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GAME: DmC Devil May Cry

Following up an amazing game like DMC3 was always going to be difficult but I really felt that Capcom dropped the ball; the graphics were stellar but the gameplay was slow, tedious and I felt as though they had actually taken abilities away from Dante that he’d had in the previous games, again much like 2 as by giving him the ability to switch his styles on the fly it felt as though those styles had lost a lot of their depth and controllability - though in fairness unlike 1 and 3 I only played 4 once so I may have missed a trick with that, the game just had zero replay value for me.

If this game fails to sell well due to pure fan rage, that'll be really disappointing.

By all measure it's a solid, well-made, fun game. The reviews are pretty universally positive. They knock it for the silly over-the-top immaturity of the story and characters, but then in the same breath acknowledge that it's still fun and campy anyway. You know, like the original games were, fun and campy.

If it's just people screaming and crying that it isn't like the old games, so regardless of the game's actual quality let's trash it beyond recognition in every corner of the internet we can find, and that superficial nonsense is what causes the game to fail, then congrats, the internet is officially the angry mob that can make or break someone's fortunes based on even the flimsiest, shallowest reasons.

Which is kind of terrifying for anyone trying to do anything new with any established property - "make it exactly like it's always been made, no exceptions or we'll ruin you"? That's the kind of mob tyranny that destroys potential creativity. It sucks.

There should be backlash from turning Dante from a cool badass to some immature emo guy. I really hope they learn from their mistakes and go back to what makes Dante a great character in the next game.

I don't deny the game itself might be fun, but I'm not going to support a game like this. If I play it, it'll just be a used copy down the line.

...it felt like DMC was a little stuck in its ways. It needed to be let loose. That's what we were told as part of our mandate to reinvent it.

In the reboot, however, the game literally tells you during a loading screen that if you collect all of the items in a level, the game will award you a SSS rank for that level indefinitely, even upon revisiting it. Number of times you were hit, items you consumed, times you've died won't matter -- all of which would have in the older games.

Sorry I wasn't clear: I was referring chiefly to ranking deficits. You can pretty much cheese the game by going to a particular area in a given level and wail on enemies until you collect so many style points, that anything you might get docked for will be almost entirely negligible; because the ranking system is directly tied to your overall score instead of strictly per-aspect like it was before.

If another is made, Capcom will have to either make another prequel/interquel in house, or continue to give Ninja Theory creative license - it's one or the other because Dante's family situation, upbringing and motivations are completely different now. No one can use this game to fill in any blanks on the other games. It's kind of surreal how they've attempted to market the game as Shakespearean in its storytelling when the dialogue is so on the nose that it actually showcases how it's anything but.

As far as mission length goes, are missions in DmC shorter than this?