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Writer's pictureRory Bailey

Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom) First Impressions (XBOX One Demo)

This weekend saw the release of an Xbox One exclusive demo for the upcoming Capcom videogame, Devil May Cry. As someone's who's played (and finished) all 5 previous games (because the fifth one wasn't called "5" so now number 6 gets that number...) I was very glad to hear that Capcom were releasing a follow-up to the last-gen title Devil May Cry 4, which is what fans wanted INSTEAD of dmc: devil may cry back when that project was first announced.


I made a point of ignoring the release trailers and only read brief snippits regarding this release due to being a fan of the franchise and wanting to go into my gaming experience fresh when the game released but then the demo dropped and I HAD to try it.


And boy am I glad I did - that's just saved me from shelling out £50 on release date because, sadly, I won't be picking this game up on release. I'll probably give it a shot when the price drops but the demo didn't grip me in a way that made me want to get the game. It's not all bad so let's look at some of the positives and some of the negatives.


Positives:

- Visually, it's very impressive

- There's a lot going on and the scale of the boss fights seem very "epic"

- The combat system is very easy to get to grips with

- Nero's back (but we'll touch upon that in the negatives)


Negatives:

- Nero's got the dmc appearance for some reason (he'd appeared in DMC 4 as a younger looking version of Dante which was explained in the story in a way that actually made sense)

- The enemies seem too samey but not in a good way - they seem more like the rebooted dmc-style enemies and not like the classic DMC enemies.

- There seems to be way too much reliance on the dmc version of the series' lore and not a continuation of the classic, numbered style

- It feels more like 2 & 3 than 1 or 4 - In my opinion the first Devil May Cry was the best in the series. The gameplay, enemies, story and replayability (BOOM! Made up a word) were all top-notch and 4 (The first release on the 360 and PS3) also tried to emulate that feeling whereas 2 & 3 were more focused on filling the screen with enemies (which, while cool, got too repeatative)


Overall Rating: 2/5 - As mentioned earlier, I won't be picking this up on release but am willing to give it a shot when the price drops.

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Clem Fandango
Clem Fandango
03 בינו׳ 2019

I know what you mean. I was disappointed that we had to play as emo-Nero instead of Dante. This will be the third game in a row where you can't play as classic Dante from the get go. Thumbs down from me.

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