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just today i watched the trailer of the upcoming Devil may cry 5 to be released some time at the end of the year. my first reaction? HOLY. SHIT. it's the holy shit that i would say when something terrible has happened. AND YES, something terrible has happened to devil may cry. of course i knew Capcom doesn't handle devil may cry anymore, though even with that fact i still expected something good from the upcoming sequel. but what i got was total load of crap that doesn't even look like devil may cry. i'd even say its producers made a game that they mistakenly took as devil may cry.
now, onto the trailer.
do you see the cool white haired guy with the red coat, cool leather pants and tops with a big broadsword with a skull and bones at the hilt? do you see the cool one handed shotgun? do you see his uber cool dashes, his mid air tricks and his dance macabre move with his sword master technique? NO. you see a guy with pepper and salt hair with dual magnums and a stick that transforms into an overgrown sickle/extendable sword/whatever shit you call it.
while i was watching the trailer today i hoped to see dante (the cool white haired guy) in the end of it. instead i got this dante wannabe who smokes and probably takes in marijuana and drugs as a stimulant for fighting and who claims to be dante himself. some people say the guy in the trailer is Dante's son, though the trailer tells a rather different story.
back to history.
the last dmc game before dmc 5 was, well, dmc 4. the first guy you could use in the game, was another white haired guy with a dual barreled magnum and a heavy single edged sword that you could charge up to spice up your attacks, and this devilish right arm that could break a demons neck with a click of a button. i was expecting dante to be in the game so at first i was disappointed, but when i got further into the game, my hopes of seeing dante again was finally realized, when he made an appearance in the 12th mission after Nero was absorbed into this huge marble statue (which was a demon) and used as a power source, since he had the blood of sparda, brought about by his right arm. though dante only acquired three weapons (both guns and swords), pandora, lucifer, and gilgamesh, and one style (darkslayer) after acquiring yamato, which was extracted out of the demon world by a mad demon scientist known as Agnus, his ability to switch styles on site (though leveling it was manual, by buying its levels with proud souls) made all the difference in the game, it made him even more kick ass than in devil may cry 3.
Back to present.
with the real dante one, all hopes of seeing rebellion, ebony and ivory, and coyote-A and the cool white-haired guy named dante are completely gone. in his place is some sort of drug addict with a transforming stick and two magnums. will it still be worth playing, even with the loss of its MAIN star? from my viewpoint, i would say no. i've slayed demons with dante for years now and i will continue to do so with dante and his cool weapons. unless all this is changed, if i ever want to acquire DMC5, i will do so by torrenting it, since it is no longer worth my money. till then, i still hope to see dante.
