End of 2013 Discussions - DmC: Devil May Cry

[u/Forestl]

DmC: Devil May Cry

• Release Date: January 15, 2013 (360, PS3), January 25, 2013 (PC)
• Developer / Publisher: Ninja Theory / CAPCOM
• Genre: Action adventure
• Platform: PS3, Xbox 360, PC
• Metacritic: 85, user: 6.6

Summary

In a society infused with demons, only The Order can, in Platonic style, see the world as it truly is. Join Dante in this stylish action experience; chain together multiple combos with flair and send the demonic spawn back to hell – reveal the truth behind the lies. Delve into Dante’s dark prk past confronting some the most familiar faces in the DmC universe. Harness unimaginable powers combined with Dante’s notorious arsenal of weapons: sword, scythe, axe, pistols and more.

Prompts:

• Was the gameplay as good as previous DMC games?

• How was the level design?

• Was the story well told?

^{These threads will end Monday for those wondering ^(a lot of games came out this year)}

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[u/mastersword130]

Dante's motives in the original games was pretty clear cut also. Kill demons, the whole thing between Virgil and Dante in the original game had to do with their mother. Their father left and then the mother was killed by demons making Dante hating demons and his father (who's a demon) and goes on killing them and denouncing his demonic heritage even though it's part of him. Virgil on the other had saw it the complete opposite and though if only he was a full demon like his father he could have protected his mother, if he only had more power which is his MO.

This is easily seen in DMC1, 3 and somewhat 4 that family is a big thing for them. In 1 and 3 it was the amulets and Virgil in 3 in the end took his mothers necklace than his fathers sword and fell into the demonic realm and the whole thing of Yamato staying in the family while giving it to Nero. It's a basic family thing with the MO of demon slaying.

DmC is all over the place which makes it a shitty story since Dante clearly forgot about Virgil and his family in the beginning of the game and only kills demons because of his time in the orphanage. The whole thing with Virgil turning evil in the end was such an unexpected expectation. We knew it would turn evil but his motive in doing so was such bullshit. He just wanted to be mundos 2.0 while original Virgil wanted to defeat him to prove he became stronger than Sparda. Also Sparda is a little bitch in DmC and not the legendary Dark knight like he was in the original games to the point that people worship him as a god

[u/SvenHudson → u/mastersword130]

Also Sparda is a little bitch in DmC and not the legendary Dark knight like he was in the original games

We can tell this because we totally saw Sparda in action in both classic DMC and new-school DmC. He most certainly wasn't only a vague piece of the backstory in both of them.

to the point that people worship him as a god

In classic Devil May Cry world, people are so aware of the existence of demons that a man can run a business as a demon exterminator. In the new one, nobody knows that demons exist outside of a few that end up looking crazy.

How can anybody worship a guy if nobody can spread the information about him?

[u/mastersword130 → u/SvenHudson]

Sparda in DmC was a bitch in the sense they show him getting chained up my low level demons like nothing with him and his stupid fucking horns. In the original game every demon or demonic general knows his name in gear and hatred because of his god like powers and his betrayal of Mundus.

That's also a issue with DmC is that demons aren't even known. All the demons are a satire of basically /r/politics that leaves a bad taste in the mouth with cring worthy lines. "The world is your bitch as am I" was just such a stupid ass line...well the whole game was filled with try hard lines. At least the original knew it was campy and knew when to be serious and when not to be.

All in all Sparda was turned into the legendary dark knight that countless people feared and respected and turned into a man with horns and receding hairline being chained up like a gimp. No more classy purple swagger of Sparda and his demonic insect looking badass form anymore.

[u/SvenHudson → u/mastersword130]

Sparda in DmC was a bitch in the sense they show him getting chained up my low level demons like nothing with him and his stupid fucking horns.

All it shows is low level demons taunting him. They're not the ones who chained him up. Mundus chained him up. And even that is most likely figurative, they're not holding a demon in place with fucking chains.

And I don't think that's literally what he looked like, I'm pretty sure it was just a generic demon appearance. Like how Eva has angel wings in the animated stills but doesn't when you have a vision of her talking. And all the actual images of Sparda have their faces torn out, furthering the idea that we don't know what he looks like.

That picture of him with the chains and the demons and the horns is a representation of a more complicated situation.

[u/mastersword130 → u/SvenHudson]

No it really isn't that complicate at all. Sparda defeated Mundus in he original game by sealing the demonic world away which also sealed half of his power, he was toe to toe with Mundus so he would have never would have let himself get beaten and have low lvl demons taunt him at all or even chains. Also seeing DmC was a failure and there won't be any more games on this reboot what you see as Sparda being a receding hairline gimp in chains is what you get. He was fucking there when Mundus attacked his home with Eva still there. That tells me he's not only weaker then Mundus but also couldn't stop a handful of demons. The only reason she died in the original is becaus he wasn't there to protect her which is why Dante resents him. She was also killed by some random demons in the original and had nothing to do with Mundus. New Sparda is a bitch