Excited about the Reboot, I tried the demo... and hated it. I thought, what the hell is this crap? Who is this emo punk calling himself Dante and why does the combat suck so bad? These graphics are terrible, too. The game looks like concept art SKETCHES! After seeing DMC on many Top 10 Game Lists, I gave it a try at the incredible low price of $15.
Story: 9/10
This is an origin story for Dante. He's not the cool super hero Dante from the first series who rides missiles like skateboards. At this point, he's a young punk with an attitude, but he talks and acts like a real person. Hung over after a night of clubbing, the story begins in Dante's trailer when a mysterious girl exposes him to a hell dimension full of demons. On the adventure, Dante learns he has a brother, Virgil, and that he and Virgil are Nephilim, the spawn of angels and demons. Dante and Virgil must team up to slay the demon who killed their parents, battling through an army of demonic minions along the way. Although it does feel like a show on the WB, the longer you play it, the more you like the characters.
Graphics: 8/10
They're highly stylized, but I'm not too crazy about the style. The environments are varied from streets, to office buildings, to hell dimensions, to ancient ruins. This is not a great looking game, but the environments are very dynamic. They explode, twist, expand, collapse, strech... They couldn't just use standard texture maps with baked in lighting, so I'm cutting them some slack. The characters are very well animated and the creatures look like old dolls left to rot in hell. They're creepy looking, instead of just looking like your typical video game monster.
Gameplay: 9/10
The gameplay consists of:
10% Easy Platform Jumping with generous checkpoints. Use an Angel Whip to pull Dante toward a grapple point or a Devil Whip to pull the grapple point towards Dante.
1% Puzzle, which is pretty easy.
9% Exploration, where you should revisit old levels when you have new powers. You may see a ledge but have no idea on how to get there, and later you get an ability that makes it accessible.
80% Modular Combat.
The combat lock is gone and pushing directions to trigger Dante's moves has been replaced with a modular system. They new combat system works like this:
Dante has 4 weapons equipped at all times:
A Sword. (Y,B buttons)
A Gun. (X button)
An Angelic Weapon. (Hold LT+Y,B buttons)
A Devil Weapon. (Hold RT+Y,B buttons)
There are multiple types of guns, angelic weapons, and devil weapons and you swap them by pushing the D-pad. Up toggles your guns, Left toggles your Angel Weapons, and Right toggles your Demon weapons.
The combos for each weapon are very simple and a pause in the button presses differentiates the moves. So, Y, Y, Y, Y is one combo, where Y, Y, pause, Y,Y, is another.
The controls are: A = Jump, B = some kind of launch attack, X = shoot, and Y is a melee attack.
Hold LT to equip your Angel Weapon.
Hold RT to equip your Devil Weapon.
The beauty of this system is that the combos are completely modular and you can switch between them on the fly.
Start with your sword, Y,Y,Y, switch to your devil axe, B to send the enemy skyward, use your guns to shoot it and keep it airborne, use your angel whip to pull yourself up to the enemy, perform a Y,Y, pause Y, attack in the air, switch to your devil weapon for a smash him to the ground attack. How you mix and match your sword, gun, Angel, and Devil weapons are up to you. Transitioning between weapons is exceptionally smooth.
Because Y is always attack, B is always launch, X is always shoot, and A is always jump, it is incredibly easy to learn the combos.
Mixing and matching weapon attacks is where the game gets really fun.
There are some color coded enemies that are only weak to a certain type of weapon. Blue enemies are resistant to angelic weapons, while red enemies need to be slain by devil weapons.
There's a pretty wide variety of enemies, too.
Leveling Up: 8/10
As you kill enemies or smash objects in the environment, you get orbs. These are used to buy new moves for your weapons. There is a TRY (Before you buy) Mode which enables you to try out all of the weapons and their attacks so you can pick the upgrade / combo that you really want. This is GREAT!
Levels: 9/10
You can replay levels on any difficulty at any time, so if you want to go back to level 1 and farm orbs, you can. If you want to try out the tougher levels on harder difficulties, you can do that, too. The levels are varied and there's a good mix of combat, platform jumping, and boss fights. There's also quite a bit of spiteful dialogue between Dante and the Demons to keep you motivated.
At the end of each level, you are given a score based on your combat style (switching weapons and combos scores much higher than using the same move over and over), the hidden objects that you find, and the time it took to complete the level. This isn't the type of game where your health regenerates, so you will need to purchase health items. Each time you buy one, that item gets more expensive.
Sound: 10/10
The acting is very good, the music is great, and the combat SFX punctuate the action.
Maturity: M
This is a super violent game with lots of swearing, adult themes, and partial nudity.
Replay Value: 8/10
The game is 20 levels long and it will take you about 12 hours to finish. When you finish, there will still be a chunk of unlockable moves and stat boosts for Dante, so you're free to play on the harder difficulties. The game also has increased difficulty levels where the enemy AI is different and everybody (including Dante) dies in 1 hit if you want a challenge.
Overall: 9/10
I didn't think I was going to like this game, but I really enjoyed it once I gave it a chance. I like the new Dante and he gets better as the story progresses. After a while, I enjoyed the modular combat once I unlocked my first Angel weapon and my first Devil weapon. This is a really fun game if you like God of War style combat. To fully enjoy it, you do need to let go of the old Devil May Cry games and understand that this is a reboot, and not a remake.
Buy it if you love God of War style combat.
Buy it if you love teen drama shows on the WB.
Rent it if you have about 12 hours to blow through the game on default difficulty.
Avoid it if you need the target lock + directional push attacks that the old Devil May Cry games had.
Avoid it if you can't get over the red saturated art style.
Avoid it if you love the old series and can't stand reboots.
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