Hopefully Hideki Kamiya will take the reigns back with DMC5 yeah. This feels a lot like the 360 Double Agent of DMC.

I really don't think this is THAT bad though. I certainly don't think it's DMC2 levels of blandness because that was uninspired through and through I thought. You really need to bump up the difficulty here to feel like you're doing anything at all however. Sometimes it just feels like you're choosing how to beat people up as opposed to fighting to not have them beat YOU up. Because they in most cases won't even bother trying.

I wish I could muster enthusiasm for NG2 but I find it really difficult to do so. I think it's ironically to do a lot with how thorough NG felt in the end, by the time Sigma came out they'd basically created the perfect playground for its combat engine, a game that you could return to over and over.

I think I wanted a trailer with some intriguing plot points and more emphasis on the characters. I'm usually not too bothered, but I think it's sorely lacking in NG which is after all an action adventure at heart. The complete lack of humour or proper character exploration also means that the stuffy Ryu is precisely as stuffy as he comes across. Dragon Sword seems to do a better job on the narrative side of things which makes the omission in regards to NG2 seem that much more pronounced.

Sort of the wrong thread though I guess. :I

I disagree Sath, I think it makes a tremendous difference and I miss it when it's gone.

I think it's a variable added to combat with as big an impact as a jump button, and it introduces a pretty major air game aswell where you can pull people up from off the ground into your air combo.I can't even begin to tell you how much I agree with this. Nice to see someone else who appreciated the tongue in cheek humour of DMC3, as I've been on about it to deaf ears a while now around these parts. I still do reckon there's more of it in this game than there was in both 1 and 2 though, so it wasn't completely rolled back. But yeah, there's sort of an awkward fucked up balance here, character wise, where nobody is quite DMC3 Dante and thus that whole redeeming cheese factor is a bit borked.

I believe a completely Nero-centric game would've fared better story wise too. I mean 3 is so good because it's all about developing Dante into what he *is today*, and that kind of origin story is a good basis for a game like this that is inevitably going to be very focused on the character you play as - his journey.

This is a bit of an X Files situation I reckon. I may be in the minority here but I think Doggett and Reyes could've worked out if the writers just let go of Mulder and Scully properly. Instead the remainder of the series was essentially spent chasing ghosts as the writers tried to build stories relating to those characters but without them being there.

I actually like Nero. I loved Dante and I loved Phoenix Wright, but I welcome Nero and Apollo Justice because they enable new casts, new directions, new drama humour action. In this case I think it would benefit every aspect of the game.

But it is what it is. It's really really pretty, it's still got some really cool cutscenes and I do like the Devil Bringer gameplay as it basically gets some God of War moves in there and sort of... well.. reveals how utterly shallow GOW's combat is I guess.. but that's not quite the point. :D Anyway, I think it's a nice game.. it's just that stars aligned when DMC3 was made, and the vibes this game let off early already had me prepared for a less significant entry in the series.

Glad I didn't buy this :). Gamefly to the rescue!

Best Phaethon jpg ever. The painted on mustache over the actual mustache--perfection.

SIMON-IFIED!

MY God. What a monster I am. All Simon wants to do is to put that horrible incident behind him, and I keep bringing it up, and laughing uncontrollably at it.