Johnny vs. Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition

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point onward until the end of the year so why don't we continue where we left off and yes I am coming at you with my live stream set up I originally did have this all recorded with the regular camera but my dumb ass forgot to compensate for the low lighting and it came out way grainier than it's used to so it'd just be faster and easier to just redo everything from this setup and not have to worry about hogging up my GPU trying to get rid of grain it's a pain in the ass and uh don't don't be dumb like me now it's time for the fourth entry of the Devil May Cry series and this one like I didn't know what to expect heading into this because even though I'm surrounded by a bunch of DMC fans in my circle I don't hear folks talk about this one it's the first Devil May Cry To Go multi-platform the first DMC for the seventh generation of consoles that's all good but the only thing that came to my mind when I hear Devil May Cry 4 it's oh hey it's one of the first commentaries we ever canceled over on brain scratch commentaries I wonder why hot off the big success of Dante's Awakening on the PlayStation 2 Devil May Cry was a Bonafide franchise for Capcom by now the games were selling well and Dante was getting some extra Spotlight and other forms of media to boot crossing over with other games including Beautiful Joe shimagami tensei a couple of mangas here and there light novels even a whole ass anime released in 2007 Devil May Cry was in business and business was looking good Capcom was locked on sites for the next generation and for some of their earliest games they figured a new Devil May Cry game was the right choice to make in fact Devil May Cry 4 would not only begin development right after the thorough game was completed but it would also be one of capcom's first titles released for this generation next to Dead Rising which I believe was a launch window gamer at least within a year of the release of the 360 anyway and then there was Lost Planet the game I know nothing about other than the giant Mech getting a character slot in tatsunoka vs Capcom hideaki hadsuno returned as director once again I think at this point he's proven that he can make a seriously amazing action game when given the time of resources needed also returning was Bingo morihashi certainly no stranger to the series he's been involved since DMC too and that whole Fiasco this was the guy that ended up coughing blood because of how crushed tmc2's development was by the way but you know he helped with that game he wrote the scenario for the third game and this one we're about to head into but to my shock circumstances involved in the development of this game will lead the man to straight out quitting Capcom before he was asked to come back by hiraki and sooner to help finish the project guessing it was probably like no no come back please come back please please I know I know it was rough with dmc2 I know this is also giving you [ __ ] but please let's just bear with it and let's get something that can make folks happy and then you do whatever the hell you want afterwards and sure enough like after a DMC Force completion Bingo Mori Hashi would just leave Capcom and you know pursue other things now from what I've looked up while the development of Devil May Cry 4 wasn't as what's the word to put it inhumane as dmc2 this game had its own share of [ __ ] to deal with despite having a team of over 80 people working on it regarding production it seems the team had around the same budget as Dante's Awakening but Capcom wanted something larger something better something to Showcase what they could do with the new hardware using the same budget as a PS2 title and while I'm sure this would have been easier done than said if the devs were just working on one system Devil May Cry 4 was going multi-platform and one of those platforms was the PlayStation 3 which in the mid-2000s nobody knew how to [ __ ] make a game for it because of its radically different architecture compared to the much more approachable Xbox 360 red ring of death being damned still it looks like they made it work out and I'd like to assume Devil May Cry 4 on the PlayStation 3 works just as well as the Xbox 360 version but this is assuming you're even playing the original release today which I don't think folks are doing they're probably playing the Special Edition released in 2015 good Lord June of 2015. that's about seven years after the original game why the sudden interest in revisiting it actually uh don't answer that I think I might find the answer for myself after the next video oh boy the team also wanted to put emphasis on new blood for this adventure Dante had his fun in fact I think he's still trapped somewhere in the Underworld based on the ending of DMC too so let's get the spotlight to someone new that someone will end up being this dude named Nero who I guess looks different enough from Dante I don't know I've learned my eyes and I swear I'm just looking at dmc3 Dante with a glowy arm and a higher polygon count also voiced by a former Power Ranger here Johnny Young Bosch in this case you know what happy to see him here I think he's a [ __ ] fantastic voice actor altogether and this game is no exception I love his performance in this I just came from Hell he's got hit up a couple terrorists these do you think it's intentional at this point recruiting former Power Rangers staff as voice actors for this franchise Reuben Langdon was a stuntman in the series for a bit Dan Southworth the voice of Virgil was the quantum Ranger in Time Force Johnny Young Bosch was the second Black Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers lineup God I remember catching that live too that was way back in 1994 I believe 30 years next year I don't know I feel like in the last couple of videos I've been I've been getting pretty existential about how much time has actually gone past the [ __ ] am I doing myself in the eyes of the development team Nero would attract newcomers to the series pick up the controller play their first Devil May Cry game maybe make them a fan and try out the other games that was at least the original idea and in retrospect I still think Nero fills that role quite nicely I thought but during development producer hiroyuki Kobayashi voiced concern over the lack of the series wacky woohoo Pizza Man fearing a negative response like what Ryden experienced in Metal Gear Solid Two Sons of Liberty catch that review here on the card up top nudge nudge Mr Kobayashi would not give the final approval of Nero unless Dante was worked into the game in some form or fashion the result of this we will no [ __ ] doubt get into but fans could rest easy knowing that despite having a new face take over the role's main protagonist this time Dante still had a large role to play and he was still full of energy and snark and not that stone statue from dmc2 confirming what I initially said that dmc3 was essentially a rewrite of the character one I'm fully glad to see come back even if I don't fully agree with this look and it's higher in this game I don't know there's something about his Giga Chad face I don't really Vibe with his hair looks like a bad wagon with those cowboy chaps and red boots take that [ __ ] off Dante you look like an [ __ ] but okay as I'm getting ready to head into the game proper I'll be playing the special edition from this off of steam I figured that was just the best version to play today in 2023. just as a heads up for full transparency I bought the special bundle that was on sale for like 30 bucks at the time you see I figure when they say bundle they meant like you know extra DLC maybe some extra costumes some extra slide campaigns I didn't know what was all in like within the dmc4 package so I figured all right just get 30 bucks for the bundle let's just play everything that's in it but what I also didn't know is that it came with a bunch of red orbs and Proud Souls those are currency in the game to buy upgrades or items in the shop and it not only unlocks every mode and every difficulty but like every costume as well it is essentially a hundred percent safe power or at least close enough to it and I would normally not purchase something like that because I'd rather just unlock all that stuff within the game itself via multiple playthroughs but at this point I'm kind of whatever about it because it's not like I'm immediately replaying this one after I finish I got two other able to tackle after this so if it's less grinding I gotta do then sure why not of I already spent the money so let's just keep going anyway what did I ultimately think a Devil May Cry 4 in the island of fortuna there exists a religious group known as the order who worshiped the legendary Dark Knight Sparta as if he was some kind of God within the group are these Knights known as the order of the sword who carry out the will of the Sanctus for the sake of peace and prosperity and all that other [ __ ] Jesus this Moses that Abraham hit me with the wiffle ball bat we find our new Hero of the Day Nero rushing to attend an opera performance where his girlfriend kirie is getting top billing for but he's sort of caught up in killing demons that tend to pop in from time to time for he's also a knight for the order of the sword still he's able to make it and catches the end of the show but I see that Nero was one of those [ __ ] that despite having headphones he doesn't actually wear them and has the music on loud enough to annoy everyone else around him what a prick but suddenly Dante enters the scene likely to show the consequences of not practicing good music listening etiquette Nero and proceeds to murder the scientists of the order right in front of everyone watching causing chaos to erupt from within the sacred walls of the church Nero attempts to stop Dante and can keep up with him for a bit but Dante is clearly holding back and makes his exit leaving Nero to give chase by order of Credo the captain of the Holy Knights and brother of Nero's girlfriend Kyrie however not all is as it seems if that wasn't very obvious at this point and I realize we're only like 10 minutes into the game here but as Nero begins his hunt for Dante it turns out the order is not exactly the holy Visage they claim to be the Sanctus is revealed to be alive and well looking a little more demonic on top of that too somebody get this man some Clear Eye it gets redness dryness irritation out a triple play WoW the Sanctus secretly wants ultimate power firm itself stopped me if you heard that one before siphoning the power of demons to not only create an army fit for any Crusade and to eventually power this ginormous statue named Jubilee I mean the savior he is also augmenting and empowering his own Soldiers with demonic Powers mainly thanks to the assistance of his scientist named Agnes who someone in my Discord referred to as a lowland Senator Armstrong and thanks for that because now I can't unsee that [ __ ] using the power of a broken Yamato as a power source originally the katana belong in a Virgil the order is positively brimming with demonic influence and Nero is gonna learn the hard way that he's gonna have to do some serious Devil May Cry [ __ ] if he wants to make it out alive and protect the ones he loves namely his girlfriend kittier really loves that girl as for Dante nothing really complicated about why he's here he wants the amount throwback claiming that it belongs to the family and is too dangerous to be left in the hands of anyone else though he and Nero originally started on bad terms the two will eventually reconcile their differences as the true nature of the order comes to light and that's about the basic just the game story it's pretty cut and dry and well it's rather bear pretty damning for me when one of the first things that come out of my mouth when the credit started rolling was okay but who the [ __ ] was this guy we learned next to nothing about Nero in his own debut yeah we get pieces of things here and there but no time is spent like being introspective about it or developing it to make it more worthwhile his only sense of agency is that he's revealed to be a descendant of Sparta himself oh okay so this part I have like a secret love child somewhere or perhaps he's the hidden third brother of Dante or Virgil we got a solidist snake situation here or maybe he's one of their kids I don't know the game quickly drops the whole Sparta thing as soon as it's mentioned Dante doesn't react to it that other Posse reacts to it is treated more as trivia than anything personally I think it's pretty obvious that Nero is likely Virgil's child later in the game when confronting Agnes the broken Yamato not only reforms to help Nero but it also helps awaken Nero's Devil Trigger come on I don't think you do that unless you mean to say there's a deeper connection here than just Nero being another white-haired Demon Slayer with a glowy arm unfortunately our souls are um I need more power [Music] boys power kill me more power also Virgil [ __ ] I never got the idea that he was remotely interested in poontang I thought he was just interested in Pagan Dante who did he lay with I remember the opening of his cutscene that he gets in his campaign which is like a prologue to the whole story's events taking a place like I think two decades before there's this slight focus on this woman in red and it's like I'm assuming uh Virgil late with her but at some point or another like he Virgil [ __ ] I which isn't to say I didn't like Nero or the others No in fact I like the characters in the story I just didn't think the story was anything special I think Nero's girlfriend kittier could have used more screen time she's too much of a dams on the stress from my liking I think it doesn't help that every other female in this series so far has shown to be capable of Defending themselves and here's Kitty and her only quality is that she's a great singer to be fair that is equality it's just compared to everything else we've seen kind of milk toast I totally buy that she and Nero are a thing though am I got the way Nero calls out to her when she's in Dire Straits okay I get that these two are in love with each other again Johnny youngbosh did such a great job on the role but what else I thought the order was pretty generic their goals even more so I still liked Credo and his boss fight later I thought that was really cool Agnes fits the mold of the mad scientist who caught up in his work but outside of his large bronze frame and his stuttered speech I didn't think anything else of him the Sanctus evil generic Pope been there done that Nero is the real star of this even if we know literally not thing about him outside of his demonic Origins his energy and arrogance remind me of all the best things about Dante from dmc3 but I also admire his sort of sophisticated approach even if he has a sword that wrestled like a motorcycle what the [ __ ] he's got plenty of quips but he's also dead serious about his work and you can see that anytime he's put to the test he gets [ __ ] done with little to no nonsense so he doesn't feel like Capcom trying to pull a poochie the dog in this scenario who is for all intents and purposes a great protagonist and I look forward to seeing what else they have in store for him since I know he's brought back for dmc5 it's just I find it so weird that for his first game he's just some dude much better debut than Viola though just gonna leave it at that but fret not if you're thinking Dante doesn't get his share screen time he sure does but man I find it funny how the beginning of the game tries to play up Dante as this antagonistic force and shirt from the perspective of Nero yes oh man is Dante going evil but we know this ain't the case and for me it was the opening cut scene that told me that yeah when he pulls out his piece and shoots Sanctus right in the [ __ ] head that's striking startling even but then he starts doing the usual Dante stick with the soldiers stabbing them swinging them around like a tool he's not evil the guys are just probably secretly evil or some other [ __ ] I wish the story did a little more with that element of mystery instead of just brushing it to the side so quickly this Gloria character the horniest character to date in the franchise I think even more so than Nirvana and dmc3 she's just a disguise for a returning Trish well I'm happy to see her back as well as lady the story doesn't really like billing to anything things are just laid bare and then we just move on that was a thing I kept saying that to myself until we reached the climax and then I thought dude this is just the ending the Bayonetta in fact this is the game that Hideki Kami would research from making the very first Bayonetta game even it's easy to see where band that it was constantly on my mind when playing this and I think that sense of familiarity made my journey through the game easier to digest but oh man so the game is 20 missions long for the first 10 to 11 missions you play as Nero as you travel across the city Snowy Mountains random Forest what the hell is this you slay demons destroy bosses big and small as you're trying to decipher the true purpose of the order but as I'm playing the game I'm noticing a lot of bosses won't stay down or manage to make a retreat we also seem to be building towards the climax pretty fast we unlock Nero's Devil Trigger he gets the Yamato to use he discovers the Insidious nature of the order he has to save Kitty okay we've reached the Sanctus at the base of his operations are we already at the end of the game pretty short if that's the case but I don't mind when my games are short if anything I hate when my games are overly long but despite his best efforts Nero is captured and then control switches to Dante for the remainder of the game keep in mind we're well past the halfway point of the story by now and most of Don missions compared to Nero are not anywhere as long but I start playing as him you know I'm having fun he's basically dmc3 Dante with multiple styles that you can freely switch between all willy-nilly in fact before the switch version of dmc3 this was the first game to have freestyle switching so we could thank dmc4 for that thank you dmc4 but then it starts hitting me oh Dante's gameplay is just him going through the same places as Nero but backwards oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no not a double bed cry doing the Castlevania [ __ ] we're just going through the game backwards oh here's the bosses That Got Away before but now we gotta fight them as Dante we're playing the game twice in a single campaign it's Devil May Cry Co Veronica Say It Ain't So don't make Cry Oh Lord and what I find extra hilarious for Dante is that the game still hasn't required new weapons and guns but you have next to no time to use them because you're almost done with the game like why bother at that point I mean the answer is The Game's bloody Palace and I had a lot of fun with that this go around but in the story Dante feels very second bananas likely resulted him not being initially playing for the game in the first place okay that's not entirely true there was more planned for the guy it's just the devs were over budget and out of time so to make the game artificially longer to probably justify the price tag they just had Dante go through the same locales and fight the same bosses but in Reverse I I will say now this wasn't the worst thing to experience on my first run when I didn't know what to expect but as I'm wrapping up my first play through thinking about revisiting the game again with the extra characters because special edition brings us a playable lady and Trish combo and Virgil my mind was exhausted at the very thought of replaying the game an additional two more times [ __ ] not even two given how the campaign set up I guess an additional four times and now that I'm saying that out loud since Virgil gets the whole campaign to himself playing both the Nero and Dante sections what he reaches the Sanctus and he realizes he left his keys back in the city and has to go back to pick him up foolishness Virgil foolishness you [ __ ] idiot man this game Left Me split the campaign itself I thought was middling and I'm not even referring to like the back and forth [ __ ] although this game will have you backtrack all the [ __ ] time it's the worst defender in the series so far with that [ __ ] it's just outside of the combat there's nothing truly stand out regarding exploration and level design going through the motions sums up this game's design perfectly they took out a lot puzzles and the ones that are here require little to no brain power to solve we need a more grapple hook [ __ ] I always get a rush of dope with me whenever I have a grapple hook in any game except this one for the record as is we only use it for some harmless climbing here and there maybe there's a spike ceiling on top most times there isn't it's a thing I'm glad to see that the fixed camera wasn't as problematic as before we even have a degree of camera control in certain spots now so that's fine you know what's not fine though these gyro blades basically the game's equivalent of block pushing puzzles and RPGs that are so desperate to fill the time and you gotta do it like [ __ ] eight to nine times in one sitting two times that's two does the game make you play this board game with this die depending on the spot you land you can either teleport ahead or backwards land in a treasure spot or fight a bunch of enemies even after being told how to manipulate the dice thanks to you guys in the Discord and Lewis this [ __ ] is just intrusive and to say again they make you do it twice the last one being a part of the [ __ ] Boss Rush towards the end yet you not only fight every boss's Nero you not only fight them again as Dante but then you gotta fight them for a third time as Nero when you get control of him again at the end of the game [ __ ] stop the mc4 just end please you'd be a better game if you did yeah I wasn't the biggest fan of this campaign but here's the real dick kicker for me gameplay wise I think this is the best one so far oh my God this game's combat and control is Simply Sublime like regarding Dante I'm happy to say I was able to jump into this gameplay of no issues because he's basically just dmc3 down to a better graphics and questionable boots a lot of the same tricks from before work just as well here and even though you only get to use them for like two minutes Dante's new set of weapons have their own kind of charm well okay well Gilgamesh is just the Beowulf and if for gauntlets from before and Lucifer was all right I didn't find these very appealing because they didn't have the same impact as other weapons for me and now they can make all the [ __ ] sexual innuendos he wants with the weapon but if I don't like it I'm not using it get away from me Dante the Pandora is [ __ ] ridiculous though and I don't mean like in an overpowered way I mean the damn suitcase transforms into a floating battle station kind of ridiculous what am I looking at here but the real MVP is Nero who I probably need a little more time to think about this fully but I think he's the best character so far in the series just in terms of combat utility and ease of use and that was the point of the character so mission accomplished to the doves Nero gives newcomers away into the series Without overwhelming them with all the options that Dante eventually musters Nero doesn't get any new swords he only has one fighting style and he only has one gun to boot and his double trigger is more of a companion than full-blown transformation but I think this ends up making Nero immediately more accessible and easier to fully grasp for clarification this doesn't mean Nero doesn't get upgrades at all but his ability payload is more focused and easier to understand and I think that's an important distinction I don't know why some of these abilities are labeled what they are if you want to call it a side Dash let's call it a side Dash what the [ __ ] is table Hopper Nero is most standout asset is his glowing arm the Buster which confused the [ __ ] out of me at first because I see the word buster it's a Capcom title I'm thinking that was the name of Nero's gun but no it's just the name of his command grab and what a [ __ ] ability using his arm right Nero can yank opponents towards him or if they're too big or heavy he can close the gap and lay on the damage with his trusty sword this does so much in making combat fluid and non-stolic there's never a dull moment with the guy how I could just start some ground combos with the dude then launch the enemy into the air then do an aerial follow-up and knock them down then use the bus to pick them right back up and continue where I left off got that never got old I genuinely felt like I was a demon slaying badass of Nero and don't get me wrong Dante and the others got that area covered in Spades too but with Nero I feel more in control of my combos it doesn't feel like button spamming and hoping for the best the Buster can even be used against stunned opponents for some more cinematic action I love how they reference Street Fighter with at least a couple of his throws and I appreciate the final Atomic Buster for the reference in wordplay but especially against boss fights these are just a [ __ ] spectacle to see on top of dealing massive damage my biggest regret with Nero is not fully grasping the power of his sword the Red Queen in addition to basic swordplay you can also rev up the Hilt like a motorcycle handle and charge the blade up giving it explosive power like say a gun blade from a series I'm looking forward to revisiting later this year though you're free to charge the blade up at your leisure between battles which I didn't find very fun to do looking back slow progression down too much for my liking its real power relies in the exceed ability where with careful timing of the charge button you can instantly unleash charge attacks in the middle of your combos you do Insane damage when you pull it off but it's so [ __ ] precise to fully master and I couldn't do it as often as I wanted to every time it went off though I felt like a God and seeing Nero's blade engulfed in flames is just cool to see they also streamlined how abilities and items were acquired red orbs are now exclusively used for items at the store so you no longer have to weigh between buying a skill upgrade or health pickup or permanence that increase instead you're rewarded with these Proud Souls whenever you finish the mission and you use these to purchase new skills for Your Arsenal the more skills you buy the more expensive other upgrades will cost though so you need to consider that when thinking about how you want to flesh out Nero's build but do AMC 4 also allows you to refund proud Soul so that you can reinvest it in another ability that you might want to try out later and I think that's pretty neat I didn't need to do that because I bought the bundle that essentially let me buy my way to a full move list from the get-go but I still appreciate that designing giving players extra flexibility and I also appreciate only needing to buy the double jump once instead of 5 000 times like the last game did yeah I know I'm exaggerating but I'm also bitter but yeah man the gameplay is good whenever it was time to start smacking things I was deeply enjoying myself it was gratifying studying enemy patterns learning to look for the right openings maybe seeing if my Buster could potentially interrupt things and jump at the sudden opening on the ground or in the air Nero was [ __ ] killing it and it felt so good I could have used less of these guys Mephisto and Foster just spamming the Buster until you fully disrobe them and then you smack them for a bit before you gotta do it again that ain't fun that that's just tedious also [ __ ] this blitz guy you know what I like doing in high octane combat games waiting and that's what I felt like I was doing most of the time with this you can't touch him when he's got that [ __ ] electrical barrier up unless you're a guy with Dante Royal Guards you got a Pelton with projectiles to the shields down and then pray to God you can kill them before it's back up what a pain in the ass despite fighting most of them about three times a piece the boss battles were fun too burial I mean he's just the Lionel from Zelda that's on fire what's not to love about that what do we got here a bale a demon frog that has a lesbian angler feeler so lure unsuspecting prey okay that uh works for me but whenever I hear his boss theme I just think of Dropout from Dance Dance Revolution they share similar samples [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] so check in the comments sections of this theme everyone's talking about how it sounds like a dialga's theme from Pokemon I was like what no it's Dropout from der Echidna wasn't bad either although I totally blanked on her name until I started writing this script believe it or not I just had her down as snake plant lady thing in my notes I'm sorry did she ever introduce herself I don't recall the fight against krato stands out is one of the best I think a perfect test of Nero's abilities while offering skill players the opportunity to cut things short in more ways than one I have similar praise for the second fight against Dante as well although I wouldn't put him on the same level as any of the virtual fights from dmc3 then there's the final boss against the Savior and scientists these are all right savior just too many pieces to the fight goes on longer than I wanted to and it's not even the end because you gotta fight Sanctus afterwards and he's open for like two combos before he summons that barrier again it's lather rinse repeat too soon for too long an anti-climatic end to an already Meandering story and that was like the real like punch on the gut for me because I was so disinterested in revisiting the game front to back again and again that I didn't spend this as much time with the other characters as I would have liked and let me tell you those extra characters the lady and Trish combo the playable Virgil they are great first it's great to see Lady actually being playable here I thought that was like the most obvious thing to include last time but better late than never so I'm terrible at getting a decent ranking with her but her focus on long range Gunplay and explosives makes taking down even the most obnoxious goons delightfully fun if a little rigid she's like a souped-up Gunslinger style from dmc3 not as acrobatic but who needs aerobics when you have a gun I managed to stick until the halfway point with Lady until it was time to switch to Trish and I was ready to just try one battle with her and call it there but then I actually started playing as her and what is this girl's workout routine been her combo game with her fists her lightning powers the long and close range Effectiveness with Sparta holy [ __ ] she wrecks so much [ __ ] in this game it's amazing but only for so long because then I remember wait [ __ ] I don't want to do all this again and then I just left the campaign I ended up doing this with Virgil too I get to the end of the first half with him and stop there because in my mind I finished the game I didn't want to do the whole thing again backwards with the same goddamn character even if I was having the time of my life because oh my God Virgil is so [ __ ] fun in dmc4 I love his sword combos including the Yamato this time it has combos worth a damn compared to dmc3 his summon swords are just played unfair with proper spamming his Devil Trigger is amazing he has this concentration meter that fills up with the more Virgil like you approach your enemies and it's like slow walking towards them and decimating them with suit attacks it looks silly but like the damage does not lie oh my God it's teleport it's insane how much you can close the gap with it I felt so relentless with it especially against armor demons and boss battles Virgil is seriously awesome in this game it's just too bad about everything surrounding it thankfully with the game's bloody Palace if you really want to you can just jump straight into the combat with any of the characters here and I did just that I spent more time here than I thought I was going to actually in this mode because of just how much fun I was having in combat with everybody seriously it has to be stressed again in terms of gameplay Devil May Cry 4 is such a step up from before I love just playing this game and like dmc3 I wish I had more time to try out different things or maybe try out some new costumes at the same time because the campaign is so middling the very thought of revisiting any part of the game's story mentally exhausted me even more so than that at DMC too if you remember back in that game I played it multiple times with different difficults just to see if I can get something else out of it I did not feel compelled at all to do so with this game although don't misconstrue me this is still a much much better experience than that at DMC too that remains a low point for me but I just got so tired of this castle and the [ __ ] you do in it Devil May Cry 4 gets my wholehearted recommendation on the gameplay alone it's a wonderful scrumptious Improvement for my game that was already a substantial upgrade compared to the previous titles the presentation and sound design have seen next-gen improvements and the extra snazzy particle effects for combat and movement are so cool to see it right on the eyes uh so I might get you know flogged for this I couldn't tell you anything about the music though sorry to say the only standout theme for me was Nero song and that's only because you hear it every time you battle something it's not like a Sonic the Werehog scenario where you get sick of it but you'll hear the time has come and so have I more times than you might think and damn all I can say is Nero sure loves to come a whole bunch good Lord look at that face do you think he uses this glowing arm when he does it and he can he like rev up his dick for those hard to reach itches even considering that we're four games in and after all the [ __ ] that was the mc2's development that I thought that Capcom or the devil never let circumstances get that bad again uh to be fairly DMC Force development didn't seem as bad as tmc2s right but you can still see cracks everywhere in this game and it's mostly on the campaign because it's just how boring it is like it is a [ __ ] fantastic game I can't I said that maybe seven times already at this point but I mean every single time this was a phenomenally [ __ ] fun game and you got to play it based on that but if they had a little extra time if they had a little more money to work with to solidify the the campaign the story mode all that sort of [ __ ] we could have had a contender for like one of my favorite games of all time a character action or not but but we still have two other games after this and maybe maybe with the next one like don't play stop laughing I don't know but well we're gonna be taking a slight detour I guess with the next game because the next game is DmC Devil May Cry the series reboot I never played it but I sure as hell know about it and I guess we'll get my full 100 opinion on it uh one next when next we meet so uh with that said uh let's get to some more Patron shout outs here and we got a new list now we refresh the list we got some new names here and we're essentially starting over again so on with more 10 Patron shots it's okay with a new list comes new names and more ten dollar patrons to shout out again if you want to get your name read by a YouTuber you like watching 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Published: Sat Jul 15 2023