questionable though it was i usually get the impression this game has a fair amount of admirers.

(i'm neutral as i don't care for the series/genre at all)

I know this game has had something of a critical reappraisal in the last few years, and I'm willing to accept that it actually is a much better game than its reputation would have you believe... but then I remember the pitch deck for the game which basically stops just shy of calling you the f-slur if you liked the previous games, and remember why it deserved to get shitted on.

this is completely undeserved and people just got mad because they don't like it when Thing Different. this game fuckin slaps

One of the most dissapointing games I tried in 2023. I figured with all the talk that this game is overhated that it still had a fun core but all I could think playing the game is this game is just mostly doing systems excatly from DMC but nowhere near as deep or intresting so it made me just feel eh I can play and try 4 and 5 instead.

For all the talk of if I would say ironicaly its biggest flaw is it mostly trys to do so little new gameplay wise with being a reboot. Just simplifies DMC systems and kinda automates them and didn't feel like much else stuck out. Man the story and writting and pacing was awful. Not so bad ita good or even cringey just a boring lifless action blockbuster movie level feeling of writting. Like the Hitman movie and the Reaident Evil movies etc for its story

Ain't a fan of the color-matching shit.

I post it here just to acknowledge the birthday and the decidedly mixed reception surrounding it. I'm no expert at the character action genre, but I can accept that the game is presented very stylishly and has some novel ideas driving its gameplay. But man oh man, some of those character and narrative decisions can't help but get under my skin, and knowing the duress it was developed under leaves a bit of that sour taste in my mouth. But just to be clear: I'm not the sort to knock anyone for enjoying a game that others loathe. (That's kind of my raison d'être, as a matter of fact.)

killer soundtrack.

feels like one of those cases where the game wouldn't have gotten hate if it was its own franchise, but then also nobody would have paid attention to it

This game slaps, the Slurm woman is hilarious, and the Fox News chyron fight is a top 5 boss battle of all time. No notes

Yeah, the original console releases have some technical foibles (30 Hz refresh, albeit with 60 Hz controller polling, which, better than nothing, I suppose) and the writing can be a little obnoxious in places for my tastes watching footage now, but the core combat is solid stuff and like you said, there are definitely some real set pieces!

All told, there are definitely worse releases in that era of Capcom's western commissioned games (I'll forever be sore that they opted for Lost Planet 3 over a localization of EX Troopers, too, and people there more or less know it) and the technical hangups aren't a problem on PC and (presumably) PS4/XBO. Personal tastes in terms of writing and whatnot aside, it accomplishes what it sets out to do on the whole and I had a good time overall for what it was! And I'm definitely very choosy when it comes to the character action games I'll put time into.

THIS GAME WHIPS ASS IS THE THING

It's been so wild learning how many people hate DmC, I had no idea until very recently lol. I never really followed the series and that game got so much love from Giant Bomb that year lol.

Loved Noisia's soundtrack for this one.

whoa what SOLD on soundtrack alone

It was extremely powerful for the devs to acknowledge that dante is is a dipshit who punches good. The 'fuck you!' back and forth was so spot-on and it felt like hardly anyone got the point of it

And you know people were just butt hurt because it wasn't their Dante that featured in this game too, and that Virgil wasn't generically evil. I mean, I like both the original brothers well enough, but I like the reimagining of them as well, if not more, because it didn't adhere to the bog standard. Besides, even original recipe Dante would tell the naysayers of DmC to screw off because this game was badass and the soundtrack was bangin' as hell.

amazing, wow