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(01-24-2013 11:53 AM)Ouberry_13 Wrote:  Also, this one goes out to the Bumble-Bro Cody. DMC is alright. I find it no better than any other entry in the series, and the new characterizations of Dante and Vergil are dumb, along with the story of "media is evil, man!" Also, the combo system is far too forgiving, as I was able to SSS-rank most fights without too much effort. The actual combat is ok, though I disliked how you were forced to use certain weapons on certain enemies, thereby limiting your potential ability to making the really over the top kinda combos (though I'm sure you'll respond with a video of some sort trying to prove me wrong, I will still stand by my statement). And lastly, making the Bloody Palace as DLC is fucking stupid.

It's not actually media being evil since Bob uses it as his weapon to brainwash humanity. If the story was really about the media being evil then such products in the game like Virility adverts wouldn't be so successful and Bobs news channel would also fail. The "evil product" is Virility itself which is drunk by the humans. Even still that's not even the story(dunno how you missed that). Those are back themes but it's a typical story of revenge. Dante and Vergil don't care about the humans but only dethroning Mundus.

As for the ranking, it is too giving. It honestly should be tweaked to be much tougher or along the lines of DMC4. Having said that, I find it surprising how no-one mentions that DMC1 was easily the worst offender of easy ranks. I was playing DMC1 yesterday and did combo B to get an instant A rank. Even DmC isn't that giving, but it's still meh. Doing a Demon Dodge into an attack for instant SSS is bull-. I'd rather distance myself from DMC scrubs but this game wants to close that gap apparently.

Also, yeah I didn't mind the enemies at first but those colour coded enemies are bullshit. Talking about killing the flow of the game to force us into Ikaruga style gameplay. Good ideas but it should've stayed ideas rather than actually put in the game. Plus, the other enemies like Drevak, Dreamrunners and Rages have such awesome designs yet completely BS when it comes to comboing them since they can jump out of a combo. Stupid! What's the point of being able to stun them and start a combo if they pop out of it?

Dante and Vergil? I liked 'em better than the older version. Actually had better a story and dialogue. oldVergil is too one-dimensional and oldDante is a cocky-cheesy white hair pretty boy that I laughed at rather than thought "that was cool". Apart from in DMC4 when he matured.

Bloody Palace being DLC. Stupid idea, the fact it's DLC (free by the way) means that they obviously forgot to include it in the game. How do you forget Bloody Palace? That's like Resident Evil forgetting The Mercenaries. At least it's free DLC.

If you want decent combat videos then check out my YouTube (or page 12) to see some combos. Seriously this game has a lot of the old mechanics of the old game like JCing, Weapon Switching and Buffering (if you even took the older games seriously).

Dunno where I'd put it in the series... better than 2 (Who liked 2)? MUCH better story than 1, 3 and 4, but the combat of 3 and 4 is better.