Finding Devil May Cry
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2019
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Special thanks to Atmos Fabula for his section of Royal Guard style. I had a cameo in his DMC3 video if you like watching impotent gamer rage. Channel here:
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This is part 1 of my Devil May Cry retrospective. The developers shot off from RE4 and made a new franchise, but how did it get to where it is today? What did it look like and how did it play?
Devil May Cry is an oddly varied series for one with the same core patterns of gameplay throughout. Dante himself has gone through so many changes it's a wonder he ended up as loved as he is, but DMC4 probably did the bulk of that.
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A child could beat DMC2, but that would be child abuse.
haha welp I guessed I was abused by my uncle then lol
Gardevulpix haha same man!
Never played DMC2 though
FACTS
Team PALM lmao
Zubatticus I don't think game journalist can
Dante reciting Shakespeare is best Dante and no one can convince me otherwise.
Michael Jackson Dante would like a word
I was just about to say Michael Jackson dante.
@@andrewfarias4118 Haha you're right, that was pretty amazing
NO
DMC5 Dante is like that uncle who desperately tries to stay relavent
The reason DMC 2 sucked was because, only 4 months prior to its release Hideaki Itsuno was put in charge. Prior to that the game only had a rough narrative , and some design elements. Hideaki Itsuno salvaged the trash fire in 4 months, making the game remotely playable. He pushed out the game to meet the release date, so he could make DMC 3.
The game fundamentally sucks but for 4 months of work, its functional
The original unknown director literally only had one move done by the time Itsuno took over, we're lucky the game is playable at all because of Itsuno.
Personally, I found the boss rush to be fun. Going from getting destroyed by Cerberus and unlocking easy mode, to destroying HIM without getting hit once was one of the best feelings ever, same with all the other bosses.
And while the story isn't perfect, I still thnk its good. It's simple, but its effective and the final fight with Vergil is still my favourite final boss of any game ever. The build-up, the stage, the music, the fight itself, the final cutscene...
Man, I just love DMC 3 so much
Oh yeah, overcoming the boss rush was amazing, that last part is really effective in making everything super intense, such a good game.
Feels good destroying bosses especially if you still remember getting killed over and over playing the first time
When i was a kid cerberus made me rage quit for like a month
They really couldn’t have made a better learning curve lol
I remember he used to kick my ass endlessly
Also, boss rushes are a staple in many Capcom games. The most guilty of this is the Megaman's games.
If he calls dmc4 a bad sequel i will find him go up to him and point my finger very angerly at him, lets just hope it dose not come to this extreme situation.
that it, i call the police.
Shit dude, calm down. Pointing the naked finger to people is incredibly rude. You savage!
It's not THE BEST dmc, but it is pretty good
Wow wow, this party isn't that crazy for that
It is a bad sequel
The difficulty increase was in DMC3 and was fixed in the Special Edition re-release resulting in the "Very Hard" mode.
@Mr. Ultimate I believe that the American normal mode is hard mode in SE seeing as there aren't changes to the enemy placement and behavior.
@Mr. Ultimate All modes in the vanilla NA release are one level higher than the JP release and all versions of SE with the exception of DMD which is the same in all versions. NA Easy=JP/SE Normal, NA Normal=JP/SE Hard. NA Hard had no equivalent in the JP version and was labelled Very Hard in SE.
Throw in that Vanilla only had Yellow orb mode and the NA version was fucking brutal.
DMC1 probably has the best atmosphere out of the first three, with the third being a very close second. That's the reason why I play it. The Gothic architecture, the dreariness, the foreboding nature of just about every single area. Not to mention the flavour text given throughout the game really give the castle and even the island a sense of malice and antiquity. It's brilliant.
I didn't notice that his coin had one side in DMC2.
That's kinda cute actually
It made arguments so easy ;)
It’s like one of the few things about DMC2 I actually like, it’s a very Dante thing to do. It’s part of the showmanship, he doesn’t leave helping someone to chance. It’s a bunch of dramatics that hide an actual soft heart, and if there’s one thing further DMC games should take note of from this game it’s the small moments like that.
Then why is he even flipping it
Should've been called "KBash bashes the Y Button"
No remake, special edition is not a remake
This is one of my biggest frustrations with RUclipsrs and people who play games in general. There IS a difference between remasters and remakes that should be adressed. Remasters are simply porting the game to a newer system with some higher res textures and some bug fixes (or more bugs if it's a bad one.) Remakes are from the ground up rebuilt versions of older games that require much more money and time. Remasters are imo essential to game preservation as well as bringing series to newer players who don't own those consoles. Remakes, while holding their own place, are ultimately unnecessary most of the time.
@@supernicral so, basically Remaster is like a Reboot then?? i swear these terms confuses me a lot lol
Special Edition, or as i'd like to call it "how Capcom charges you for the second copy with extra 1-2 characters and cutscenes just for the lolz"
@Rando lol, sorry i mean Remakes. again, i'm still confuses mostly about this terms lol
Damn I actually got told to correct it in my script and didn't, oopsie doops
12:57 "I'm not exaggerating when I say a child could beat DMC2!" LOL that comment hit close to home because I beat DMC2 when I was 7 years old.
I think I was 12. Was my first DMC game; still appreciate the nostalgia
I never beat it. As a kid I knew to avoid Devil May Cry 2. Somehow I knew it was ass
Then later became a God at DmC
My first DMC was 3 which came out when I was 12 lol
I remember when the special edition came out and my mind was blown when I saw you could play as Vergil.
I couldn't beat the final tumor monster as a kid though
DMC 3 holds a special place in my heart since my brother and I played it on our PS2 all the time.
Definitely my favorite part was finding out you could play co op via the Doppleganger (I think that’s what it’s called) ability!
I think you could also co-op on the bossfight where you ally with Vergil
Yes, Vergil can be controlled by a partner in mission 19. (I kinda wish that play style was an unlockable style at least in bloody palace, also why no DT?)
"The plot is good enough to pass in an action game and nothing else." Might i direct you to Foxcade's video?
I'm a writer, don't care for the writing.
@@KBash Wouldn't being a writer make you appreciate the writing more??
@@chimeratheo1855 I'm pretty sure that was a joke lmao
Yeah Codex Entry and Foxcade's video on DMC3 story is pretty spot on.
@@Ghettojaku Didn't sound like one. And if it was it wasn't very good.
"But that's not what happened, is it?"
I swear to Sparda if you're coming for my boy Nero there'll be a reckoning.
Nero is the part of dmc4 thats actually finished, so hes probably safe lol
Its a really weird thing to end on in 2019 with DMC V just around the corner, never mind counting DMC 4. Like yea, it could just be referring to be big mess of DmC and 4 being unfinished etc but still
im glad youtube recommend me this video,
i really like your humor style ^^
The Beta swordmaster Vs The Chad ROYAL GUARD
Chad Guard is the most viable in speedruns too
Style switcher mod woop
Defending is for betas. Grow some chest hair and play without cowering behind royal guard.
The Beta Dark Slayer vs the Chad Royal Guard.
*cries in only using swordmaster and quicksilver*
"And he can only carry one weapon at a time" you can actually switch weapons by pressing the right stick. I assume you haven't even touched the right stick since you don't even talk about taunting in DMC1. Or in DMC at all. Which is what makes it a completely different experience from the likes of other action games. There's so much more to DMC1 than "oh yeah there's like this combo and this combo and this combo", it's about being stylish against opponents that tower you and your puny health bar. Playing on DMD is what any real fan of the franchise should at least try, because it really makes you think about what you're doing and how you're doing it. Taunting isn't only useful for style but it also restores DT gauge in DMC1.
It seems to me that you only scratched the surface of what DMC really is. It doesn't remove any of your personal enjoyment of the game, but it definitely misrepresents the game itself.
Except DMC2, that shit's poopoo.
Lol no I didn't know they added the swap. I taunted a couple times to build trigger against slow dudes though.
@@KBash I'm pretty sure that it has been a thing since the original PS2 release lol
Still it doesn't really matter, because it's not a quick switch like in DMC3/DMC4, but it plays a small animation of Dante switching to Ifrit/Alastor(or the sword he's using). It's faster than going in the menu and swapping your weapon out, but it puts you at risk of getting hit
@@KBash I don't think you mentioned Round Trip at all either but it's pretty useless unless you know how to weapon switch. You can only switch between Alastor and Ifrit and Round Trip allows for the only weapon switch combo.
Also like other games DMC 2 can be fun if you don't cheese it. I know guns are powerful but there's enough there to have fun with. Things like Aerial Rave, Gunslinger, and Trickster started there.
Gunslinger is equal to SwordMaster, it's just not as easy to combo with guns. The addition of a third weapon slot would have made it a lot easier to. Not saying you should be locked at six weapons but you should be able to select three guns if you want.
@@KBash it's in the original.
@@M7S4I5L8V2A I honestly don't get the rampant hate against DMC 2. No, it's not like the first game. And I like it for not being like the first. I love the first, it's my favorite in the series directly followed by 3, but DMC 2 is by no means a terrible game. It's a bit clunky, and can be cheesed all too easily, but if you actually put the smallest amount of effort into making it into a fun time it can definitely deliver.
i disagree about boss in dmc1 all of them is my favorite boss in the series except mundus
and nero angelo is how dmc all about, they show how you need to learn from them atk/block/dodge from boss is really fun to learn how to fight, that the reason dmc1 is really fun
DMC2... I know this thing's a major cultural artifact, but it's bad for the community!
Its the fanbases' kryptonite. Or like Voldemort, you-know-who thing.
According to this guy, I'm some kind of god because I beat og DMC1 on DMD when I was 11 1 year after it released and beat OG DMC3 with fucking GUNSLINGER on Normal my first time through.
Basically all of the difficulty in DMC comes from learning the enemies attacks. Once you know them all, the only question is how much do you want to risk safety for stylishness.
No that's pretty impressive.
To be fair, Gunslinger is aces in 3, although it does require technical skill to fully maximize its potential. Good stuff, and I see your point.
Really? I beat it at the age of 3.
I like your video, however I do think devil may cry 3 story was my favorite story of all time from the dmc games and from videogames to even movies, about Dante become more human progressivly through the game and being more like his father, Sparda, while also having to face and defeat his brother Vergil and Arkham being the main villain the father of lady and her defeating him. It felt like a story not just about family, but facing your family, while also being enjoyable and fun and not overly complicated. It felt like my favorite story of all time, but that's just my opinion.
Devil May Cry was never really an integral part of my life but I had DMC3, and I never finished it, but I enjoyed the action a lot, even though I wasn't very good with it (I mainly play RPGs). I really, really am tempted to get the new DMC though.
Get the HD Collection and start on easy for your first game except DMC1. Let's you get to terms with the combat and how the game works in general. I started with DMC3 but was no good at it, years later I got DMC4SE and played through it on Human (Easy) then Devil Hunter (Normal) and worked my way up. It's a good series and they're all worth playing.
I've only completed a few games in my life and DMC3 was one of them. However, your analysis was spot on. It was right after I graduated Highschool so I had the time and the will to learn and enjoy. I've never had the same experience since. Mainly I don't care for being forced into other chars mid story as I feel it doesn't let me naturally ride that learning curve with a char to experiment.
youre my fav youtuber atm and to see a video on probably my favourite franchise of all time is so wonderful, love u kbash
New Kbash + one of my favorite childhood video game franchises = insta-like.
Just a heads up, the 250% extra damage thing was for hard mode, not normal mode
Fire Rath In the original DMC American release, normal mode was the hard mode in the Japanese release. Where Dante did less damage and the enemies dealt 250% more.
@@MrCrowley2474 That was DMC3, not DMC1
Fair enough, but I remember hearing that DMC1 was harder in North America than in Japan?
@@firerath So I looked it up, and apparently the enemies in the North American version of the original DMC1 did 20% more damage on every difficulty compared to the Japanese version. Since the HD rereleases were graphical updates of the Japanese versions, translated to English for North America, the HD version is easier than the original in North America. So that, combined with the DMC3 difficulty changes, is probably what led to the confusion in the video.
WellSheat really? Huh. Never knew.
This was in my recommended and I loved it. Didn't even realize 20 minutes went by, you just earned a fan.
Damn Kev, you're killin it. Keep truckin on. I'll still be here watching 'em all.
19:23
Checking the red pillar with writing on it (on the left side of the screen) gives you a pretty good hint about that puzzle- 'One with a soul of steel need not fear the abyss' or some such. Of course, it isn't immediately obvious that you can read that note.
9:20 can you at least explain why this Nero Angelo fight is so obnoxious and annoying? Using big words with out explaining what you mean by them, nice. To me it's a perfectly fair fight well telegraphed and cool, except the camera that switches so much that it killed me once, and the glitch you mentioned, but casual players aren't going to know about that
15:57 don't pick gunslinger -.-
he not like kinda of this boss for sure, he say again at vergil boss fight,
for me both nero angelo and vergil boss fight is really fun to play with and that iconic boss type in dmc series
I guess the specter blades. I haven't played dmc 1 since my ps2 days and that was always my least favorite fight.
@@Felix-ee2ob gunslinger gang unite
"[2] is the perfect number of weapons for dante, change my mind."
DMC5 lets you unlock the ability to carry all the weapons at once. You can set it up so it goes sword, not-sword, sword, not-sword, sword, not-sword. All the convenience of a 2 weapon loadout with all the options of a full loadout. You can even do like I did and form associations between a sword and a notsword to keep the order straight in your mind, i.e. Sparda and Balrog are kinda like DMC1 weapons, rebellion and cerberus are kinda like dmc3 weapons, DSD and cavaliere are the new hotness.
Also gunslinger is dope except in 4 where it's a terrible joke.
Found your channel through youtube recommended and love the video, hope to see more of your content in the future.
The voice crack in "LIGHT" still makes me crack up without fail. Doesn't get old.
Man, your videos are always on point! Really funny and enjoyable! :D
It’s Halarious you say a kid can beat dmc2 because that’s my little sisters favorite one out of the series she says the others are too hard.
Yo the part whenDante and Virgil fight together put the biggest grin on my face and in my head is one of the best moments I've experienced in gaming, especially when it's topped off with the incredible cutscene after where they trade swords and say jackpot together. It was fan service for sure, but hell it was so good.
I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with *_lIgHt_*
There needs to be a Looking-Down-The-Barrel-Of-Dante's-Pistol counter
Honestly there's an argument to be made that DMC2 is a great achievement of Hideaki Itsuno, because the fact that the game is as playable and functional as it is is a fucking miracle, given the development history
I don't remember DMC1 being that hard on the ps2. 12y/o me didn't bother with DMD because i couldn't carry over my blue and purple orbs, weapons and skills, but hard was fine since you could carry on from normal (oh mission select, why couldn't you exist back then).
You can carry all your stuff to DMD, atleast in the HDC. It's not worth it though, playing through on normal about five more times and getting all the items again is a better idea.
You could continue in DMD with your health and DT in the ps2 version, I wouldn't have been able to beat it otherwise. Hits from puppets are a whole life bar.
AccountingNightmare's DMD run is legendary BECAUSE she starts from scratch. Hardly anyone did that.
"I can't figure out why you'd ever bother"
Well, I can tell you. It's one word: Style.
DMC1 may not have been designed with it in mind, but DMC is flashy at it's core. It's about doing absolutely *everything* you can and being the craziest motherfucker on screen while you do it.
If you can, you can juggle those mother fuckers all in the air and SSS them up before anyone touches the ground. The pistols help with that. With well-timed presses and switches, you can have them all in the air in a beautiful buttjuggle.
Like I said, DMC 1 wasn't designed with this in mind. But that could be a reason as to why someone would do it. It definitely is in latter installments, i.e; 4, the one I played most.
Yeah exactly. Although honestly I always thought of ebony and ivory in DMC as the equivalent as the 'manual' in the Tony Hawk games, something to keep your combo going when closing distance on an enemy with the penalty of doing it too long affects the score multiplier. Devil May Cry is an arcade game about player expression, so when someone says "I can't figure out why you'd ever bother" or "This is boring", chances are the game is only boring since you are playing in boring way. You get out what you put in.
Uhh what? DMC was created with style in mind
Although it did suck that the boss fight in Devil May Cry 3 with Arkham took away the skill button (which took out the majority of the moves I needed to fight competently at the time), it turned into my favorite boss fight when me and my brothers found out that a second controller can control vergil when you press the start button. Sure the camera focused only on Dante, but our little minds where blown away when we found out we could actually fight this boss together.
>Listening Egoraptor for anything even near to views on video games.
Your criticisms are completely valid and correct for a lot of this shit. But Egoraptor is the pinnacle of the exact thing he makes fun of when it comes to fans of video games lmfao
This was fucking great! 👏 Good shit man.
I know you said you prefer Alastor, but if you use Ifrit Griffon and Nightmare become easier/more entertaining to fight. In particular you can parry the stab attack from Nightmare if you have Ifrits rolling blaze
I think rolling blaze in general is heavily underrated in DMC1
I had so much fun with Devil May Cry three one and a little bit of four that I was so happy that they announce Devil May Cry 5 actually being a thing. The demo was a lot of fun.
Yep. Subscribed. Bell hit. Good stuff
The original PS2 DMC wasn't harder on normal in the west, iirc, that was 3. And even in the HD collection, you still "go back to the beginning of a mission" when you die, which is why the gold orbs are a thing: They're your lives, basically.
@singular on1 To my memory, yeah, It's been a while since I played the original on its hardware, but I'm confident that it worked the same way there that it did in the HD Collection. No gameplay changes were made to it, beyond the wider POV.
I mean, the proof is out there.
@@KBash Just double checked, it was 100% 3 you're think of, not 1.
@@OneDoomedGameCritic DMC1 was harder in North America than in Japan. Enemies did 20% more damage on every difficulty, and since the HD rereleases use the Japanese versions as a base, the HD version in North America is easier than the original. However, it was only DMC3 where the North American normal was the Japanese hard, and the North American hard was a difficulty all its own.
@@MrCrowley2474 Really? Never heard of that before, actually.
Goddamnit, now I want to finish my copy of DMC 1...on the PS2
Hey KBash! big fan of yours, love your videos..I was wondering what the process is for you when making a video? both creative and technical..also great video!
Love your vids
I've seen a lot of "History of DMC" videos like this, and I must say, I greatly enjoyed this one! Hot stuff! XD
Disney XD
Dragon Ball XD
My first experience of this series was DMC2 and I'm honestly surprised I love this game this much after that, tbf I was like 4 when I saw my dad playing it but still
It's not that devs forgot what made DMC great when they made DMC2. It's that DMC2 had different devs altogether. If I remember correctly, the director the first DMC didn't even know DMC2 was being made until it was in the localization stage.
what surprises me is that people not using wall hike in trickster more at all and was made redundant in DMC 4.. are you kidding me? using wall hike to dodge enemies and black flipping off a wall and using helm breaker on the same enemies who are now below you was stylish af! specially on the first level in Dante's office in DMC 3..
Nice vid! I really liked the cameo. Lol! Good to see a vet subbing in rq to tell us what's up.
i had the special edition of DCM3 on the ps2 and i loved it my dad watched me play it and was surprised how far i could get without wanting to read anything and just hit buttons and honestly its one of my favorite dcm games to this day and i love replaying it idk how i beat it but hey POGGERS
Hey KBash This Is The First Video I Have Ever Watch From You. I Agreed With You On Most Things You Said But Not All. The Things I Disagree With Is Dante and The Story. DMC 1 Story Was Bail Bonds But The Game Didn't Focus On It. It Give Us Characters Back stories and Motive It Wasn't Great But So Wasn't A Lot Of Games Back Then. DMC 2 Story Is Not Good For A Main Game But For A Side Game It Could Have Been A Great Backstory For His Dad or The War. DMC 3 Story I Love It How Dante and Vergil Interest Together and How Lady and Her Dad Falls In Line With The Story Is Amazing and To Me The Game Doesn't Makes Me Hate Vergil It Make Me Love Him For The Challenge and The Personality and Dante. I Don't Really Think No Fans Thinks He Was A Crazy Badass Character In The First 2 Games He Was A Little In The First One But Not Really In The Second One and Plus DMC 1 Was A New IP Then They Didn't Know How He Was Going To Tune Out and It's Not Like It Came Out Of Nowhere. Like He Was Some Kind Of Angry Half God In The First Game Then The Couple Of Games After That He Was A Calm Dad and The Game Being Hard Is Not A Bad Thing It Give You The Tools You Need So Use Them.
How's that shift key working for you?
Jesus Christ dude, just no.
Good vid.
Hot work
Mad respect for the Megaman X command mission music in the back ground near 17 minute mark.
I feel royal guard is way easier to get used to when you realize you can combine the jump invincibility frames with the air block thus giving you a bigger marging of error than the regular royal guard block gives.
You can also do the same with the side roll-these only work in dmc3 btw, not 4 or 5
Great video
"Easy mode available"
Actually it’s not a boss rush, you can open the portal after 3 fights by connecting the line between the coloured gems on the wall.
Dang man. Dmc1 remaster was a struggle for me. I can’t believe how much harder the ps2 version is. Dmc 2-4 were a cake walk compared to even dmc1 remastered. At least that how it was for me.
At least 4 is fun.
DMC2 is just crap
@@sebastiancintron29 I love dmc 4. It has my favorite combat out of the whole series but I would still argue that dmc 3 was the best one. Dmc2 is honestly garbage I agree.
I bought DMC3 as a kid and it absolutely kicked my arse. I can only remember the Cerberus boss and that's it
P.s. great video.
Well I liked how overpowered DMC 2 Dante was.
You just made me feel like a badass.
I beat DMC3 as a child. 0_o
Hey KBash do you play mortal kombat at all? Ccan you do a video about the franchise like you did the one about soul calibur?
This is a rly good video
Wait hang on, what was that about being able to restart from checkpoints in the re releases?
Im playing the steam hd collection and im pretty sure those dont let you do that
Trickster will always be my favorite style in Devil May Cry 3 because nothing beats being able to dodge an enemy endlessly and then fuck them up.
Ooo a block & counter attack style. Sign me up.
"...Nero Angelo, or Nelo Angelo if you prefer..."
Holy hell, I'm not the only one who calls him Nero Angelo!
It was a translation error ingame. Nero Angelo means "Black Angel". Not sure how they messed up, but they did.
@@yakuzashibe I'm aware of the translation error, but I had also assumed that the others had just gotten used to it by now and, if the name is ever brought up again, will stick with the mistranslated name.
In any case, I still highly prefer using Nero Angelo.
@@crimsonflame2k Nero makes more sense. I use Nelo, not sure why.
MegaMan Nero
RockMan Nero
I just bought the hd collection and i'm fucking hyped.
Dmc 1 for PS2: the first Dark souls game
should check out Super best friends play devil may cry, probably the best dudes going through DMC
Nice use of Megaman X: Command Mission music in the Royal Guard segment.
Did you play the original games when they came out or did you just now get into the series?
Another day, another question on why people can like a hypocrite like Egoraptor.
Throwback to 10 year old me beating the game without knowing devil trigger was even a thing and missing half of the weapons without realizing it. Ah, the good times.
DMC 1 : Clear it more than 10 times.
DMC 2 : Clear it once... Just once..
DMC 3 : Clear it more than 30 times.
DMC 4 : 10 times plus.
DMC : Just 2 times.
KBash talks about DMC 3's Swordmaster. Editor/Friend? comes in to talk about Royal Guard.
*Laughs in Trickster*
I love Tony Red Grave
2:13 wait, what was the issue now? The Site you show was Hard Mode Modifiers, not Normal. Or do you mean, normal Difficulty was Hard Difficulty on PS2? But yeah I played DMC 1 on PS2 EU Version and Normal was "ok" I didn't want to play easy, since then some things/encounters are straight up removed from the Game.
Caught dmc 5 on sale and got the hd collection all for pretty much the price of one game I’m excited to be playing this series I’ve been playing through all of Yakuza and am almost done so having a new series to go through leaves me very excited (they’re still downloading as I type this)
3:25 For a second, I thought you were about to make a Balan Wonderworld joke. Then I looked at the date of the video.
This is the first video of yours ive seen. I like the way you present your information. Good job!
I approve of your use of the X Command Mission sound track
I can smell the Nero hate from here.
L: "I should have been the one to find out that Kira was Liiiiiight"
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
I had no idea Royal Guard was like that
The game literally tells you this.
It's been like years since I've played and I don't pay attention
Nice video, wish gunslinger got more love tho.
The opening scene of dmc 3 just makes me wish Dante had a armblade devil arm with a modified counter attack based moveset while using royal guard style.
Wow, RUclips recommended a good video for once.
beat dmc 1-3 when I was 8-10, it was a lot of fun, though mostly on easy and normal, hard and very hard on DMC3, my fav dmc, if only there is a on the fly style change system it would have been perfect
You should try out Ghost Rider for PS2, I've never played DMC but it's pretty much a DMC game made as a movie tie-in and it's pretty damn good, all things considered.
Fighting Virgil over and over again, just to DESTROY him in Dante Must Die is a crowning achievement in my gaming career!
DMC 3 was my first and I just remember being so fucking amped about a guitar weapon.