For the sake of my own sanity, I'm done with this. Started well enough, but spiraled into utter cacophony quickly. If anything good came out of this, it came in the form of Capcom's complete 180 on the franchise, and perhaps that the non-linear narrative criss-cross helped them know what not to do with Devil May Cry V. Other than that this is baffling in all the wrong ways. It's like an AI-generated Resident Evil 4 and 5 mashup; squint and it's sort of a finished video game with clear design decisions and thematic ideas, but if you stop squinting it self-destructs like an old spy-movie letter. It wore me down, grinded my initial enthusiasm into powder, until I was so sick of it by the time the credits rolled for Leon's campaign (which, judging by the other campaigns, is the best of the four) that I have to put this down. At least for now. I've spent over 15 hours pushing my way through this monstrosity, and I don't dislike myself nearly enough to let myself continue for another 15 in this economy.

Reviewed on Jul 03, 2022


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