It's a step down from DMC3 but still better than the first two games. It does annoy me in a lot of areas like the repetitive levels which are often recycled and contain a lot of poorly designed areas (even at points wasting your time taking you to areas from previous levels that shouldve been blocked off),the over-abundance of cutscenes in the beginning of the game, some of the special missions not making it clear that extra abilities are required to even make them tolerable and the story being a bit of a slog.

But it's a DMC game and the combat is where these games shine. Glad to say the core combat of the game is still just as great and while Dante has a more limited role in the campaign, the game more than make up for it with the vast amount of playable characters each feeling feeling unique from each other and really giving DMC4 a ton of variety in combat to carry through those levels that really drone on.