Can't believe I was literally lied to all these years, I was led to believe this game was garbage not even worth playing, and instead it's actually really good?? And actually feels pretty consistent with the tone of the series???

The art design is great, the direction is super fun, there could have been more bosses but all the ones that are in here are super fun and cool. I wish the gameplay depth ammounted to more than basically just 'switch to a different weapon' but what can you do, I feel like the gameplay is involved enough to constitute a moderate ammount of depth even if it's nothing special, player involvement is what I personally constitute as depth anyway. The platforming could use more variety as it's mostly just 'jump here, pull out platform, keep going' but with different coats of paint, could have been more creative instead of just being things to get you between the combat arenas.

I'm really glad I played DMC5 before this, I feel like if this was my first in the series I'd be like 'wow if this is considered dog then the mainline games must really be something!' and sure, this doesn't have as much replay value or complex gameplay as the mainline games but this still rocks.

Really enjoyed it, don't get the hate.