V is the one single thing that's stopped me from going through it again on the hardest difficulties

Yeah honestly screw that
I get what they were going for, but it doesn't feel very good when one of the familiars die. If he played exactly the same without that caveat, I don't think it would bother me that much.

Fumbling around waiting for things to recharge just feels tedious. It's DMC, I wanna get the fuck IN, you know?