Johnny vs. Devil May Cry 2

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curiosity the most so anyway the original Devil May Cry was a success for Capcom folks love the action the energy maybe it was a little too difficult in a couple of spots but generally reception was very positive so you can bet your asset sequel was greenlit as soon as possible because by the end of 2002 everyone had a PlayStation 2 in their homes gotta make that bread as they say and Capcom was making some kind of bread with this one you know which one I was talking about Castlevania in the last video and this cover I mean I like it but why does Dante look like a vampire in this and why does he look so angry oh all right I gotta start with the plot first of course but um this is pretty much the first game again with a couple of names changed and it's somehow less significant Dante is back hunting down demons as he wants to do but talk about Whiplash gone are the wisecrack [ __ ] gone is the dialogue almost entirely this Dante barely speaks and when he does it is some of the most low energy [ __ ] I have ever heard [Music] what have we here to ask what are you doing granny [Music] [Music] I've got you endlessly thank your sins don't speak just die like he's a robot and if he talks too much he'll use the last of his battery reserve and shut down he also flips a coin now to decide if he's gonna help but is he Harvey Dent we even learned later that the coin is double-sided so I guess Dante just does this for a laugh I I couldn't say it's funny I remember when DMC the reboot came out uh people were calling that Dante what was it Donte because he wasn't the lovable [ __ ] folks love but I wonder were folks calling this guy Dante too because I gotta tell you this guy ain't Dante he's a Dante cosplayer looks good I'll give him that love the hair his shoulders are broad as [ __ ] you can [ __ ] land a plane on those damn things got a real Giga Chad face I noticed and his outfit is simply amazing he's got one good line just the one king yeah here's your crown besides that plank of wood and not even the good kind either it's like budget plywood anytime you're ready kid plague tells jokes knock him dead buddy oh that's a good one you're killing me instead of Trish we get Lucia a woman who is actually a demon created by the bad guy but wants nothing to do with him wants to live her own life slightly different than Trish but in essence basically the same thing with none of the weird romantic subtext with Dante and the girl who looks like his mom now that I think about it where is Trish I'm not too sure how long it's been since the end of the first game but Trish is nowhere to be seen outside of being an unlockable character after completing hard mode with Dante was she on paid leave maybe there was a convention happening around the time Dante was called to action either way she's just gone with no explanation given relegated to unlockable character status after just one game I can't believe Vanessa my bride My One True Love the woman who taught me the beauty of monogamy was a fembot all along will it take that means I'm single again oh Behave yeah and instead of Mundus we have the illegitimate son of Nobunaga Oda and kazia Mishima [Applause] the hell was that why did he make that noise but hot damn what a nothing character the most one note of villains no [ __ ] that it's no no there's nothing here and you know I don't mind when a villain is a little thin they could still be entertaining in some fashion but he just stands around a whole bunch like you can't be bothered with any of this [ __ ] when you fight him the first time look at him he's just it's completely indifferent and at first I thought this was the game's way of telling me ah he's not even using like a tenth of his power I bet can't be bothered because everything else is just small potatoes no he's just [ __ ] incompetent and is grossly unprepared for the ass kicking he's about to get from Dante and Lucia and what a shift in personality too the man is barely online when you meet with him for the most of the story but Taurus again my dude is suddenly screeching [Applause] [Music] Fight Night [Music] also sounds a lot like Dr Wily from the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon anyone else think that prepare to leave at once for the power station yeah I'll show Dr Light and his Robo fools with our real geniuses in fact won't die before I knew it I finished the game with Dante okay that took less time in my playthrough on the first game but okay I see now why the game has two discs you got a disc for Dante and a disc for Lucia like Resident Evil 2 a CD for each scenario and it did seem like the game was more interested in Lucia so maybe that's where the real meat of the story was so I started playing with Lucia and outside of a couple of sequences when you're underwater most of her stages were the same as Dante if they weren't just straight up removed I finished Lucia's story in less than three hours her Adventure was much shorter than Dante's and as for her side of the story what story the only real thing of significance that we learn of Lucy is that she's a demon created by Arias that's it actually now that I'm saying this out loud is it safe to say it's the only thing of interest in this plot does anything else happen in the story I gotta think for a second oh well there's this old lady you meet in the beginning that tells Dante hey can you do us a solid and get rid of this guy dudes using demon powers to be an [ __ ] if you help us I'll share something about your father Sparta that's completely dropped afterwards the game never follows up on that though to be fair I don't think Dante cared anyway but why set up that carrot so blatantly like that and just forget about it maybe she's just getting forgetful in her old age things just happen in this story you learn of your goal in like the first 10 minutes and the rest of the game is Dante and Lucia heading to this building and fighting demons it is very thin very light on dialogue very light on a lot of things actually and the final boss for Dante is Blaze from Mortal Kombat I don't know how we got here but where Dante is going at the end of it all but okay oh that was a game I immediately took to the internet to see what was up because this game wreaked of compromise the humongous nothing burger that was the story Dante not really acted like Dante the short game length why did they think they needed to break the game into two discs it's the PlayStation station two both campaigns could have easily fitted inside one CD so weird so I'm looking up this game's development for research and the first thing I notice is that Devil May Cry 2 would greet consumers in January of 2003. January that's the Forbidden month nobody makes any money during that except fitness centers and even then that's only for a week either they had strong hopes for this game because of the name or something [ __ ] up and they missed the 2002 holiday season and then I was shocked to learn that Hideki Kamia had nothing to do with this game in fact he's gone for good for the rest of the series he did some advising for the next game I'll be looking at Dante's Awakening but that's it one game and he's gone not that he didn't want to work on the sequel It's just that Capcom didn't give him the heads up and gave developmental duties to Capcom Dev Studio One which primarily consisted of developers who worked on arcade games the way I see it arcade games were on the way out for some time right and what was once a thriving market for Capcom was likely now hemorrhaging money from the company the turn of the Millennium was all about the Home console market so I guess they figure well [ __ ] we got give these folks to work on something like let's give them the second Devil May Cry even though that wasn't the kind of game the studio made let's not tell her that could come here what does he know he only created the [ __ ] series thank you development of the game unsurprisingly would be a disaster in the coming months you had developers who were working in Uncharted Territory planes being scrapped because of 9 11 I'm not [ __ ] kidding about that and because Capcom was at a point where they were making a lot of games at once Manpower was spread thin across the board it was a hectic incredibly unhealthy time to be a developer for Capcom Devil May Cry 2's development would eventually reach a standstill getting so bad that the original director of this game whoever the hell that was the state folks still can't find the answers to that they would end up leaving and Capcom will recruit hideaki at suno of star Gladiator and rival school's Fame as replacement director to essentially reorganized the whole project but instead of restarting from scratch maybe get some insight from the folks who actually worked in the first game let alone the dude who helped make the series no Capcom only gave him about six months to pick up the pieces and have the final product ready for release predictably according to the man himself it was utter hell working under incredibly strenuous conditions the constantly nights the dude was coughing up blood at one point he would end up not being satisfied with the final product I couldn't tell you why but since he didn't want his legacy to just be strictly tied to what would be considered one of the worst if not the worst game in the death of My Cry series he would immediately approach Capcom when all was said and done to properly direct the third game should there even be a third game I am amazed after learning all of that this game even saw the light of day I gotta say I think Capcom was really hoping that the name alone would push enough units to make the struggle worth it and in the end it kind of was worth it obviously it didn't kill the French I just got other games to talk about but like any other up-and-coming series from Capcom around this time if it had the same kind of problems this game that it'd be a [ __ ] death sentence but no financially speaking anyway the game was a moderate success not to the extent of the first game but it did well enough critics and fans though were not as kind and for years it remained the black mark on the series next to the other black mark I ended up not hating the game like for his nightmarish as it was to make the game right it could have been a lot worse but and exactly High Praise now is it but don't make Cry 2 does have its qualities first off just for clarification I switched over to the HD collection for this on Steam I just wanted to play the original on PlayStation 2 but I'm done being on nostalgic curmudgeon for now so HD Collection it is for the remainder of the marathon and it was fine had the game crash near the end of my first run with Dante but besides that it was stable clean visuals no load times responsive controls to say again I really like Dante's design in this game Lucio to a similar extent when you beat the game once you get these alternate costumes where the two are wearing clothing apparel from real life clothing company diesel now you know a small Indie company capcom's got bills to pay too it's silly but no [ __ ] I think these two look damn good in these clothes I'm shooting up a storm and doing Devil May Cry [ __ ] while also looking pretty fly diesel no we don't sell gas and you're not funny with their Kevin Nash references I think the game looks fine enough the opening area and the village in the ruins you explore around the Midway Point look okay obviously I'm talking within the context of the PlayStation too so everything's aged to a point but I still think it's fine it's when you get City where things get iffy the whole game has a monotonous color palette but these areas what happened here I know demons are causing things to go [ __ ] but Jesus what doesn't help is the game over correcting a problem of the original despite thinking that game looks good the castle was pretty cramped and the fixed camera angles didn't do any favors in this game not only is the fixed camera still a problem to some degree and it especially loves to flip all over the place when you're trying to explore locales Mission 14 being the [ __ ] worse with that [ __ ] level design is not very spacious it's so broad that it makes ground travel incredibly tiresome and for whatever reason your current position is not marked on the map and I gotta tell you that's a great way for immediately telling me that it's [ __ ] worthless but why did they do that it's such a basic thing but it's just not here I guess I'll just use my eyes and try to remember if I've been to this corner before but I don't know a lot of locales kind of look alike you'll find yourself entering double trigger mode just for the faster foot travel or spamming the new Dodge roll repeatedly because guess what it's faster than regular movement look at me go I look like an [ __ ] but it is fashionable than just running so I will do this as much as possible and I know Lewis is editing this and he thinks back dashing repeatedly and Castlevania takes him out of it so I know this must be driving or nothing oh he does that too well that ain't as [ __ ] funny still try to keep your surroundings in mind when doing this because when you dodge roll near a wall you'll run and jump off of it like you're in The Matrix or some other [ __ ] it's flashy it looks cool but I never ended up needing it for combat it was just something I found myself doing by accident and getting caught off guard by it every time this could have been useful in another game but not here because God damn these areas are so large I know I said that already but it Bears repeating because it also has a detrimental effect on the gameplay from what I played so far Devil May Cry is a series where he reward it with higher ranks when you're able to lay on consistent damage but that's harder to achieve in this game because enemies can be placed so far apart from one another and since the most reliable way of building rank is with your sword since once again Guns by themselves don't do diddly dick for it what ends up happening is you're doing your basic combos then frantically whipping out the gun just to keep the momentum going now I'll be the first to say I didn't mind this too much a part of me liked the challenge with maintaining a high rank snapping to another enemy on a diamond mowing them down with bullets are as I slowly and I mean slowly approach them and then slash in the bits of the sword once I'm close enough and if guns aren't ideal I could Dodge World to their location before the rank dropped there's fun to be had in that but that's about the only fun I had because as I soon found out Devil May Cry 2 lacked in what I call challenge maybe that's too nice it's totally [ __ ] brain dead man but before we get there so I'm getting a feel for this game first off I had to see if the jump button was on triangle again it's not like [ __ ] for that okay swordplay felt about the same oh there's even a quick switch button for guns now I like that and side note I appreciate you guys telling me that there was a quick switch button for weapons in the first game this is what happens when I don't consult the manual before playing the game but to be fair I don't think it's something the game directly tells you unless let me check the options oh [ __ ] I also had the double jump by default now that was great to see and the jump itself felt a little better to use it's still more for verticality but I enjoy using it also the Dodge roll I know I talked about it before but there is now just a dedicated button for the Dodge roll it's not restricted anymore to just being a lock-on thing you can do it whatever now works well enough too I got some mileage out of it in a matter of speaking but In the Heat of combat don't expect to be able to snap to a Dodge roll from a combo effortlessly you have to wait until the sword animation finishes before you can roll so don't think you can just roll whenever and avoid everything as I'm fighting demons I start to notice I'm doing the same four hit combo repeatedly on top of that I'm finding new weapons of various sizes and strength I give them a shot but Dante's still doing the same combo animations what the hell there are no different weapon styles for this game if every weapon acts the same am I correct to assume that the Vendetta is just straight up the best choice because it hits the hardest according to the game I also tried timing button presses for different attacks like in the first game but that wasn't working but then I'd see myself doing different sword slashes at what looked the seemingly random instances I thought at first like is it random no it's just this game's method of doing different combos which they don't tell you about and I make sure to look in the game it ain't there no you have to what is it like it's healthy analog stick in any direction as like a button press in the middle of a combo chain like there's some attacks that you can pull off when you're holding the directional button down as you're doing an attack like the launch Maneuvers but for all the other ones you have to press the analog stick in a random Direction like as part of a it's difficult to explain and just as difficult to consistently pull off even when I found out how it was done I still slipped up and did the regular [ __ ] one before I thought it responded just fine either way it was still lame to see that there were no different weapon Styles in this also this [ __ ] lock-on by default has an auto lock on no matter if they're on or off screen if there is an enemy in the vicinity your character will face them to help aim your attacks and because of that I don't mind this when I'm actively trying to kill things it does help keep my combo going but what I'm just trying to break a door or flick a switch like these that require about a hundred [ __ ] hits to activate man this [ __ ] gets annoying if you don't know how to disable the lock on manually it's the right trigger button just a heads up your character will refuse to focus on what you actually want to hit and it's so aggravating there's even some switches in midair that are just the worst because the lock-on [ __ ] and because air combos aren't really a thing in this game look at this trust me this is about as awkward as it looks oh that [ __ ] boss with the skulls and the Diamonds floating in the air oh God [ __ ] this fight I just find it weird how there's a separate button for disabling lock on when I think it just would have been better if it were a toggle or [ __ ] let me use the right analog to switch between lock-on targets I would have liked that too but let's keep it real all of this is assuming you're even using swords I mean I don't think you can activate switches or projectiles but for everything else Jesus Devil Trigger and guns and this goes for both characters because the two have their share of differences and in the end I think I prefer Lucia over Dante because I like her ground game warden down times but none of it really matters when you realize how little of the game asks for you and the overkill that comes with certain mechanics double trigger is insanely busted in this not only being easy to access because you build meter for it in no time and some of the cows will even just give you a free recharge that you can spam to your heart's content this game attempts to give you platform challenges on the occasion while at the same time giving you easy access to double trigger which you can just [ __ ] fly with what its damage output is [ __ ] ridiculous too things melt so fast in double trigger even faster if you know how to pull off certain with it like this multi-stab sword thing I wish I knew how to do this that well you should protect house I have your hand in this form like a goddamn machine gun and it shreds HP like tissue paper if you enter Devil Trigger as Dante when you have a small amount of Health left you enter this incredibly badass looking super demon form I read that it's called Majin Devil Trigger from the community that's a pretty cool name but not only are you completely Invincible during this but you're damaged holy [ __ ] look at that that is so broken I don't think Lucia gets something like this but her Devil Trigger I mean not only is it super strong but she's also so [ __ ] fast on the ground I found myself switching to this just so I can cover the ground much faster and the mission sooner you get me both characters can also get these different amulets for their weapons and double trigger form they can either add different Elemental effects to your weapons or give your Devil Trigger a passive ability but man I found this [ __ ] pretty inconsequential a lot of potential for sure but this ain't the game to tap into that let's put it this way until Lewis mentioned it to me in a Discord DM I completely forgot about it as a gameplay mechanic oh my God once you realize just how powerful guns are in this game it is so so easy to grow complacent in just using those right away I'm talking like in the first few encounters I start to see holy [ __ ] enemies are so easy to stagger with guns and I'm just using the default weapons look at them I'm juggling them with little to no effort I haven't even upgraded anything yet whether it's the Ebony and Ivory the shotgun the missile launcher Lucius default throwing knives not the submachine guns because I found those pretty worthless guns are ridiculously strong in this game in both the ability to stagger enemies and in raw power if you want to you can just get as far away as possible and safely Pelt enemies with bullets from a distance a lot of these guys don't really have any long range options including most boss fights and even if they do you have more than enough time to dodge things because you see them coming from a mile away yes you won't get a good combo rank like before but I have to ask in Devil May Cry too who [ __ ] cares about that in this game who cares if things are more expensive in this game than before I thought this was a good idea handy asset first too because I'm seeing upgrades costing the tens of thousands but then I say man I don't really need any of this [ __ ] because of how simple the game is you're good to beat the game from minute one I am serious and you'll still be swimming in red orbs for the shop because of how much I've thrown at you from just exploring and completing missions but sadly like it or not with some bosses guns are your best bet not just because of the damage not just because of the lack of dedicated air combos but because it's the fastest means of dealing with them and oh my God some of these guys are just so laughably bad that you just want to move on as fast as you can the floating face is near the end of the game what a [ __ ] snooze Fest this giant Mothra only thing interesting about this with the larvae you deal with you know what's fashion to deliberately get eaten by these things and explore them from within than trying to combo them to death don't worry about your health either [ __ ] double trigger will give it right back oh man the [ __ ] demon Chopper I'm sorry the infested Chopper what's an infested with THC this thing had double man cry boss it's a metal gear boss but even the high D makes for a more engine fight in this game now he might be okay it doesn't stop there either the demons are also going total tank once he get close to them they can't hurt you anymore though enjoy the free ass right some enemies just look unfinished like the little Goblin guys the ones that are on fire too when they're not taken five years to attack you once they just stand there completely emotionless like they they weren't completed yet absolutely brain dead this game again I am surprised the game even released in this date because it's clear things are not okay and don't May Cry too I finished the game with both characters surprised by how sudden it ended how empty I felt I saw I unlocked this bloody Palace mode okay it's like the dark room in onimusha I suppose it could have its own kind of fun mowing down the same boring enemies with the same boring tactics I put it down after about 10 minutes I got bored and I read it this place caps at level 9999 for what reason do I have for going that far outside of an achievement morbid curiosity got the better of me so I went and did another playthrough of dancing in hard mode to see if things got more interesting uh not really some enemies are a little more aggressive here and there and I'd argue it makes some boss encounters more engaging because of that if only because well they have more chances to do other things but everything else is about the same only they have more health so they take longer to kill and in this game that is like walking through a swamp of molasses with two tons of shoes I saw that I unlocked Trish though when I finished it so okay that's pretty cool they kept the best feeling character locked behind complete and hard mode what the [ __ ] she's basically just daunting from the first game same Combos and everything and for some reason she has the sparta that belongs to Dante Trish give it back it doesn't belong to you I was so burnt out by this point though so I didn't play the whole game with her she's got a goofy [ __ ] double trigger though doesn't she her flight is just twirling upwards like knights from nights into dreams check out her air raid though this thing [ __ ] annihilates a boss itself like holy [ __ ] I think she's a little peeved that she was relegated to optional status well all right see what all the hubbub is about now and I noticed some of you this won't be that surprising shouldn't be surprising to me either but sometimes I just like to head into things anyway because I want to affirm for myself what a game is really like I know when I got a bunch of other people telling me hey this [ __ ] is pee pee poo poo you know it's a safe bet there right but I want to see for myself I don't want to be one of those folks who just regurgitate [ __ ] other people say without getting the full context for myself I think everyone should do that like I'm glad you guys tuned in to watch my opinion on videos but I hope you don't just take what I say as gospel and spread it to other people and I know the [ __ ] [ __ ] out of your friends like oh well some call me Johnny said this was some call me Johnny said oh please don't do that form your own [ __ ] opinions please anyway thank you for tuning in Devil May Cry 2 is one of the games ever made it's clear very clear that this isn't anything close to resembling a finished product and I can see glimmers of a really good game here and there like legit I think this game controls him it was better than the first but everything else took a step backwards the world design is too spacious and Bleak the game is balanced feels like a mere suggestion and the Bare Bones plot makes the whole thing feel very very very unexciting that's it isn't it it's a boring hack and slashing that just sounds wrong on paper doesn't it you can skip this one sometimes a game can still have entertainment and value even if it is like some of the most mindless [ __ ] you've ever experienced right like I have played plenty of games that I still play to this day even if it's like it's nothing special right but I think my problem with Devil May Cry 2 like just like for minute one it is super mindless and it just never picks up steam afterwards or it just Treads water or you have to do a higher difficulty to try and get something out of it but not even like in a way like there are things locked behind certain difficulties just like no things just take longer to kill in this difficulty it's so by virtue of that there is more time for things to happen but at the same it's just it's the same [ __ ] only it just takes longer to do it hope that makes some sort of sense but uh hopefully hopefully things will get much better with the next game we're looking at and I I got a good feeling about that because this is Devil May Cry 3 Dante's Awakening on the PlayStation 2 although I will be looking at the switch version of this game next because I hear that is the most preferred version of the games of place okay that's where I will be at next time uh as always thank you all for tuning in and watching me talk some [ __ ] for a couple of minutes but before we wrap up we got some more patrons to shout out don't I holy [ __ ] I think I'm actually seeing the light at the end of this very long tunnel like the names I've been reading for like the 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Published: Sat May 27 2023