I'm not going to sit here and say that 'DMC' is a bad game, in some instances, it's far from it. In fact, I had fun with it. Sure I did, only when I wasn't partaking in trivial platforming, watching a terribly dull story play out, and sleeping through the painfully easy bosses. Let's see, oh yeah what I really enjoyed was the combat...which was nowhere near as expressive or deep as DMC4's but still a romp and a half. Stringing together combos were fun, and if the combat had been excellent I would have considered this game good despite everything else falling flat. Let's list some combat grievances really quick. The enemies requiring specific weapons to kill cut the combat freedom down to a peg, jumping feels too heavy, and enemy variety/design were disappointingly lame and grew boring towards the end. On top of that taunts, styles, and an overall sense of personality were straight up not here. I always down for some different interpretations of mechanics, but it's hard not to prefer the previous games overall.