Itsuno is a Devil May Cry veteran, having helmed every entry in the series since replacing the director of Devil May Cry 2 and he’s very much in his element here. This is the formula that Capcom has reliably been going back to time and again over the last eighteen years. Loud, flashy, angry, and dumb - don’t say I didn’t warn you.ĭoes it work? Of course it works. ![]() The plot only exists as a series of excuses for you to press the analog stick forward and kill everything in your path, and that’s the way Capcom and director Hideaki Itsuno want it. The grumbly, loner, stunted male protagonists are not a bug, they’re actually a feature of the series at this point. It’s hard to review a game like Devil May Cry, narratively, because everything that’s so incredibly dumb about the game is obviously intentional. ![]() And now that I’m in my thirties, I realize that while the whole thing is indeed absurd, it’s also still a lot of fun. As I aged into my twenties, went to college and became an insufferable theatre student, Dante and Devil May Cry seemed so stupid, so childish. Then as I got older, he seemed less cool. Accompanied by a scantily clad blonde bombshell, killing demons and doing awesome stuff because it was his “job”, saving the world not because he cared but because it was less of an inconvenience than letting everything burn - Dante just seemed so cool when I was thirteen years old. With the trench coat, leather pants, matching handguns and enormous sword, Dante was everything that spoke to the teenage boy counterculture at the time. ![]() While playing the game, my teenage angst flared as the soundtrack thundered with that early-2000s electric techno/heavy-metal sound made so popular in the Matrix. The booklet explained the backstory and included a profile about Dante, the demon-killing badass protagonist who loved pizza. I rented the game from our local video store and, like excited kids did back in 2001, was reading the instruction booklet on the way home to tide myself over until I could pop the game in my PlayStation 2. I remember when I first played Devil May Cry.
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