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We're back chaps and today we're talking demon hunters, heavy metal and a whole lotta violence!
Devil May Cry 5 is here, releasing just eleven years after the last installment in the series. The game sees devil hunters Nero and Dante go head to head with some of the Underworlds toughest foes but their not alone, this time they're joined by V. He's mysterious, devilishly handsome and looks like he just waltzed out of The Black Parade.
It's a brilliantly old school game that's just damn fun to play and lets be honest, that's exactly what you want from a hack-n-slash title.
But boy, eleven years since Devil May Cry 4 and we're only getting this game now? I would say it feels like Capcom are poking a dead horse but they've done such a good job they might as well have given the horse mouth to mouth and brought back from the clutches of death. With that said though, you'd think they'd have given us something to tinker with during that time.
Oh wait, they did...
So... Who remembers DmC: Devil May Cry?
Developed by Ninja Theory and published by Capcom in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, it is the game that took the witty and comical demon hunter Dante, a character that a rather large number of gamers around the world loved and turned him into a huge ass. DmC: Devil May Cry is the game that left fans of the series shaking their heads in shame and others simply saying "yeah, it's serviceable."
Personally I enjoyed the game, you have to know, this was back when the only experience I had with DMC was from that one time I played Devil May Cry 4 for about fifteen minutes before handing the controller back to my mate and saying "ah yeah it's alright". Going back to the game now however, after playing through the entire series I can completely see just how much the game missed the mark.
But the real question of the hour is why? Why was this series rebooted? Did it need a reboot? Was DMC 4 that bad that it forced Capcom to completely restart scratch? Let's talk about that.
While neither Capcom nor Ninja Theory gave a definite reason as to why the series was being rebooted there are a number of people who speculate that the biggest cause for it was the lackluster response to Devil May Cry 4. While DMC 4 was a commericial hit it didn't get the response from fans Capcom were hoping for and the team set out to change the direction the series was heading in. Now to be fair DMC 4 isn't exactly a bad game, far from it actually it was just very obviously rushed out the door unfinished and well unfinished games do tend to generate a negative response.
It is further speculated that Capcom weren't exactly keen on many of the pitches for the supposed Devil May Cry 5 which left the team stuck in a bit of a rut. This combined with the fact that series creator and director of Devil May Cry 4, Hideaki Itsuno and Hideki Kamiya, decided to step away from the series as they, one, wanted to work on other projects and two, felt that if the same team of developers and designers continued to work on the game it would become stale and turn players away. Eventually it was decided that the series would be rebooted, Capcom brought in Ninja Theory, based on their work with Heavenly Sword, to head the development and the rest is history.
Now look, I'll be honest, DmC: Devil May Cry isn't a bad game. It's not a great Devil May Cry game but it's not a bad game overall. Some sections are pretty enjoyable to play through, the boss fight against Bob Barbas is one of the most visually stunning fights I have ever seen and while the final boss was nothing special the fight with Vergil straight after is top dog.
But when you take into account that this game butchers the already established control system of the series which pretty much limits the amount of combos and moves you can perform and lets not even get started on what it did to Dante or else we'll be here all it day, it just frustratingly misses the mark by a mile and yet somehow that's kind of a good thing.
No one likes seeing a game not turning out the way they wanted it to but in all honesty had this reboot succeeded we probably wouldn't have gotten the newly released Devil May Cry 5 which takes the series back to it's roots and is all the better for it.
But what's your take on DmC: Devil May Cry? Let us know down below and remember for all your what's what at uncut craic in gaming,
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