The weird game of the series, if that place wasn't already taken by DMC2
Dropping everything the series builded up in terms of aesthetic, characters, story, level & ennemy design to bring a new and fresh experience, unfortunately it didn't work out.
The first cutscene you'll see from this game will show everything you don't want to see in a DMC game, hideous art direction, the game was made to looks bad on purpose and I don't know why, you went from walking through castles and churches in the old games to walking through night streets and empty buildings reeking of piss.
As for the gameplay itself, the game actually feel pretty good, Dante's moveset is polyvalent and there's tons of combo and things to try out.
The problem now with the gameplay is that the level design feel most of the time uninspired, with lot of "grapple to that platform, walk through that corridor, meet some ennemies, sometimes stronger ones" then the end, there's almost no bosses in that game, it's just elite ennemies you meet for the first time as some sort of mini bosses then you meet them again 50 times through the rest of the game and that's such a bummer.
The rare bosses you find in this game are gimmicky bosses, which I hate, you'll most of the time fight giant ennemies, dodge a hit then go through a parkour with your grapple then the fight end, no memorable fight at all apart maybe the last one which even itself is just a way to say to the fans "heyyyy it's like DMC3 !!"
A last comment about the level design in this game which probably has one of the worst idea ever : Hiding secret doors with mini-games that grant some power up through the levels BUT to open them you'll have to find secret keys that are hidden even more to open them
So most of the time you'll see a door, think "oh this is nice I was rewarded for going out of the normal way" and then you don't have a key and you did that for nothing
As for the story and its characters, I'll just say that this was utterly disappointing, from beginning to end. I'm not even criticizing the fact that they went for some early 2000s teenager edgy vibe shit, it just feel like they didn't care at all about what DMC actually is and did their own thing.
At the end of the road I'm wondering why did this game had to be related to DMC when even the devs themselves didn't want to make a DMC game.
Dropping everything the series builded up in terms of aesthetic, characters, story, level & ennemy design to bring a new and fresh experience, unfortunately it didn't work out.
The first cutscene you'll see from this game will show everything you don't want to see in a DMC game, hideous art direction, the game was made to looks bad on purpose and I don't know why, you went from walking through castles and churches in the old games to walking through night streets and empty buildings reeking of piss.
As for the gameplay itself, the game actually feel pretty good, Dante's moveset is polyvalent and there's tons of combo and things to try out.
The problem now with the gameplay is that the level design feel most of the time uninspired, with lot of "grapple to that platform, walk through that corridor, meet some ennemies, sometimes stronger ones" then the end, there's almost no bosses in that game, it's just elite ennemies you meet for the first time as some sort of mini bosses then you meet them again 50 times through the rest of the game and that's such a bummer.
The rare bosses you find in this game are gimmicky bosses, which I hate, you'll most of the time fight giant ennemies, dodge a hit then go through a parkour with your grapple then the fight end, no memorable fight at all apart maybe the last one which even itself is just a way to say to the fans "heyyyy it's like DMC3 !!"
A last comment about the level design in this game which probably has one of the worst idea ever : Hiding secret doors with mini-games that grant some power up through the levels BUT to open them you'll have to find secret keys that are hidden even more to open them
So most of the time you'll see a door, think "oh this is nice I was rewarded for going out of the normal way" and then you don't have a key and you did that for nothing
As for the story and its characters, I'll just say that this was utterly disappointing, from beginning to end. I'm not even criticizing the fact that they went for some early 2000s teenager edgy vibe shit, it just feel like they didn't care at all about what DMC actually is and did their own thing.
At the end of the road I'm wondering why did this game had to be related to DMC when even the devs themselves didn't want to make a DMC game.