This is my third playthrough and my third time trying to get into the Devil May Cry series. The reason it has been so tough for me to get into this series is that I would play through the first game and it would never really impress me all that much, and by the time I would finish I would lose all of my steam to continue forward. I will say that, while I think this game is far from a masterpiece, I definitely enjoyed it a lot more on my third go-around, and I think this is largely due to the game not being great at teaching the player about a lot of its systems. It took me two playthroughs to understand more nuances of the combat, and a third to fully appreciate it. I also kind of wish there were more boss variety, as you pretty much fight the same four bosses three times each and it gets pretty old. The fixed camera angles provided some interesting shots at some points but overall proved to be a hinderance more often than not when changing angles, given that Dante does not operate with tank controls. Devil May Cry excels in its soundtrack and art direction above all, creating wonderfully gothic and foreboding atmospheres to explore. I especially love the castle theme, which samples from the same song (To Burble and Pine by David Torn) as Resident Evil 4's "Serenity" (yet another thing tying this game to RE4). I am only hoping that later titles will take the foundation that this game laid out and make something truly amazing out of it.