The extremely slow opening with endless cutscenes and slow walking segments did almost lose me but I strapped in for a game ripe with a really fun beat em up fighting sections and a really engaging crime drama with memorable characters. There's so much to do outside of the story and while every minigame didn't really grab me, it's insane how well polished they made them with the amount of variety on display. This game's presentation is crazy good with timeless visuals and riffing with such a stylistic.

I did feel the combat could get a bit clunky at times especially with some of the later segments plus the awkward delay when switching between styles ruining the flow of combat and the downtime in certain sections like with excessive cutscenes and barely interactive dialogue quests did bore me. However I really overall dug this game and am excited to get into the rest of this seriesm

Absolutely a peak action game, it's short campaign with the unlock system does hinder you really utilizing the full potential of the game's combat system so I'm glad I went back and replayed some levels once I unlocked more moves and it really clicked. Dante's moveset is given some fresh new additions that are welcome and the returning weapons are the necessary ones to really make this the right balance for the perfect stylish action game character. Nero also is much better than 4 with the variety of the robotic arms really allowing much more experimentation and the air juggle potential later on is insane and extremely fun. V is fun to use but his playstyle does sometimes get really repetitive and one-note but the game does use him sparingly enough to not make it a big bother.

I did have issues with how samey a lot of the levels looked as well as the level gimmicks not being that interesting and the story ending too soon after things got really interesting. It's still a must play game regardless and I'm glad I finally got through this entire series and had a blast.