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My take on DmC (Demo)
13 years ago
If you don't like what I'm going to say, please don't say it. I will hide it. No drama. End of story.
I can’t say I’m really thrilled about the game in the first place. I never liked the new appearance of both Dante and Vergil, their family history background and how they act. But most of all: The plot and story. Normally I let that sort of stuff go. I was taught to never judge a book by its cover. It can be something more than just a visually altered from the norm.
So, I downloaded the demo on my flatmate’s XBox 360. Just to give it a try. It wouldn’t hurt to stop drawing for a while just to play through it and get a good feel… Right?
Right?
Sadly, I was wrong. I played through it on normal (since playing in “Human” Mode seems like an insult. Even to me who is not an all around Melee or First Person shooter type). The playthrough was tricky. Not because I’m not used to it, but because sometimes when you do certain moves, it just misfires. And I can’t say it’s the XBox controller or the console. Now, I’m a quick learner. I catch on pretty quickly. But this made it hard. I can say I enjoyed the three different types of weapons in one sword, but it’s a little confusing on which one I had to use for certain places. One thing that pissed me off the most was the jump-dash bit at the church. I died quite a few times trying to get it right. It was very annoying.
It can be a decent game with a few more tweaks on the actual gameplay. It was a bit slow, but it’s a fuckin demo. I don’t expect it to be perfect at the moment.
I just wished they hadn’t rushed through the beginning of the story… That right there pissed me off more than anything. I was confused and lost. So now, he’s a demon-angel hybrid? And Sparda’s alive? Weird…
I like my original DMC series and I’ll stick with it. This one? Well, it’ll only be rent-worthy over being purchased to keep permanently.
I can’t say I’m really thrilled about the game in the first place. I never liked the new appearance of both Dante and Vergil, their family history background and how they act. But most of all: The plot and story. Normally I let that sort of stuff go. I was taught to never judge a book by its cover. It can be something more than just a visually altered from the norm.
So, I downloaded the demo on my flatmate’s XBox 360. Just to give it a try. It wouldn’t hurt to stop drawing for a while just to play through it and get a good feel… Right?
Right?
Sadly, I was wrong. I played through it on normal (since playing in “Human” Mode seems like an insult. Even to me who is not an all around Melee or First Person shooter type). The playthrough was tricky. Not because I’m not used to it, but because sometimes when you do certain moves, it just misfires. And I can’t say it’s the XBox controller or the console. Now, I’m a quick learner. I catch on pretty quickly. But this made it hard. I can say I enjoyed the three different types of weapons in one sword, but it’s a little confusing on which one I had to use for certain places. One thing that pissed me off the most was the jump-dash bit at the church. I died quite a few times trying to get it right. It was very annoying.
It can be a decent game with a few more tweaks on the actual gameplay. It was a bit slow, but it’s a fuckin demo. I don’t expect it to be perfect at the moment.
I just wished they hadn’t rushed through the beginning of the story… That right there pissed me off more than anything. I was confused and lost. So now, he’s a demon-angel hybrid? And Sparda’s alive? Weird…
I like my original DMC series and I’ll stick with it. This one? Well, it’ll only be rent-worthy over being purchased to keep permanently.
It's a soul crushing experience, to see how far we've sunk.
Everyone has a wild hair up their ass because they made him younger and more ruff and tumble and less bishonen. He still has that same badass shitty attitude.
Fuck! That dialooue with the energy drink/Slurm boss had me rollin'!
I will say they did turn it into more of a God of War than its previous iterations. Complete with QTE boss fights.
If you are gonna do a reboot, you shouldn't really go for the same story, as it completely throws people off. A new story would have fit much better in the game, or at least different key characters.
The combat was a little odd for me, and the free camera style didnt really work well for the combat either, as it was much harder to keep track of what you were doing, or what move to link next. That being said, there were some parts of the game that I really did like, say, the whole distorted world that Dante gets pulled into. It added a nice appeal to the regular town, and made more sense for a town that was being controlled by demons(unlike DMC2, where the city was a little bit, and tedious to navigate, especially in later missions.) Also, the freestyle camera does come in handy, sometimes, even though overall you still can't see where enemies are attacking if they are out of zoom, and they just randomly hit you.
The biggest problem, is the new Dante's overall character. Don't getme wrong, Dante has always been a cocky person, but the added profanity just made it unbearable. Even though it was cheesy, the old style Dante at least had some wit about it, this one, its just like teenager with some testerone imbalances.