But the question is what. In GoW the combat and stage BGM is the same but when you enter combat more instruments start playing. Adding instruments as you go up in rank would have to mean adding noticeable instruments, like guitar or percussion because as it was with DmC practically no one noticed, and I was a musician.
As I said, and exactly what you said. Going from a simply guitar riff to a percussion beat, a bassline, and then vocals, it's pretty obvious, especially if you then add in a rhythm guitar.
As for why you didn't notice it? Pardon the assumption, but, like...you didn't care...? Why would you pay attention to every element of something you were already somewhat unreceptive to? Like...it was there, I don't know what to say if you didn't notice the very present element.
Plus, as you mention below, the music in DmC waits of specific points in order to appear in tempo.
The issue DmC had, after looking at it for a few, is that the vocals are waiting for a specific spot in the song to come in so when you get an S rank you are not getting the vocals immediately, thus you don't associate them with the rank you just got. How could you? The vocals kick in so long after the 'SAVAGE!!'they just seem random.
I'd much rather the vocals come in on the beat, rather than fade in. DmC's problem with this feature was that the music didn't return to a lesser intensity if you lost your grade from damage or inactivity. It'd probably add more impact to DMC5's combat if the music's intensity was more directly tied to your actions and keeping your rank up, rather than it being rewarded as a static prize once you reached a specific grade, regardless of keeping it or not.
i didn't notice that in mgrr either, what i notice was that both have cool tracks, cool characters..
Because it didn't happen in MGR. MGR literally only had
boss music that intensified as the fight went to a new phase, and there's no style system nor ranking for the combat to keep track of mid-fight to implement something like that.
Like, it actually bugs me that people are attributing it to MGR and not DmC, not only because DmC did it first, but also that MGR literally
does not even do it. How can people profess to love a game so much and be so ignorant of how an element of the game works...?