Which prequel do you think did a better job of talking Dante/Vergil's past and why?
The DMC1 Novel vs DMC3
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DragonMaster2010
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I wanna read the novels to get a better comparison. But from what I've heard, I'm leaning more to DMC1 novels for atleast explaining where Dante got his guns, and Dante pretty much starting off his devil hunter life subtly and in a dark city.
I saw the novel at my local book store like last yr but at that time I only played DMC3/4 and by the time I finally got DMC1 and found out about the novel it was gone
Rilgar
I fought the war but the war won't staaaahhhppp...
I acquired the DMC1 novel recently, and although I liked parts of it, some of it I found played out better with DMC3 and the other games. Yeah, it was cool to see that it filled in blanks otherwise left undecided by the games, and the character of Gilver was also cool, but the whole malarkey that Dante's sword 'spoke to him' took a certain amount out of context. That, and Gilver's bittersweet end also disappointed me. That final battle started out good but then I got lost in some of the paragraphs and yeah. Thus; DMC3 does the better job for Vergil's past/introduction, while the novel adds more depth to Dante's early days than DMC3 or even DMC1 alluded to. So it's a mixed kettle of fish, really. I should be receiving the second novel soon in the post so I'll see how that plays out.
The second novel is a prequel to DMC2 more than anything, it also gives details to where Auris' company got some of it's artificial demon technologies. Plus beryl is pretty much Proto-Lady.
Mainly the info in teh first novel gives Dante's history before he became a devil hunter, and the origins of Eband Iv. his sword was implied back then to be the Force Edge, so it "speaking" to him made sense. Now ith it be retconned to rebellion, still kind'a does
Mainly the info in teh first novel gives Dante's history before he became a devil hunter, and the origins of Eband Iv. his sword was implied back then to be the Force Edge, so it "speaking" to him made sense. Now ith it be retconned to rebellion, still kind'a does
Tbh, I think they both did well. I...kinda like to think the first novel was DMC3's prequel. >_>
The novel may be out of print but it's hardly difficult to find. There are cheap copies via amazon, B&N might still have some for order, anime online shops still carry it.
Go to amazon, get the books ISBN and google it, that should get you online shops and avialability, and the same for local stores.
Go to amazon, get the books ISBN and google it, that should get you online shops and avialability, and the same for local stores.
...much more coherent and internally consistant for one...and not loaded with subtle yaoi references since the artist of the DMC3 manga is known for their yaoi and Shounen Ai manga works.
Rilgar
I fought the war but the war won't staaaahhhppp...
So Dante's in hell what next ? who's this gliver guy ? and is Dante real name "Tony" ? but in the flashbacks as kid his mother calls him dante so i guess it was his alias ?
To sum up, Tony is Dante's alias when he was younger, and Gilver was an alias used by Vergil. **** spoilers, as the book was originally published twelve years ago.
And oddly enough DMC anime does hint many things from this Novel
They do. :/ I wonder if they decided it was canon or if they just thought it was good inspiration....
Well it seems the latter its probably used as an inspiration because the novel starts and ends exactly like DMC 3 but i like novel's grittiness
While DMC 3's story is cheesy Novel's story is much better it has other side characters who actually matter like the guy who made Dante's gun and i also love how Vergil doesn't have that stock anime personality of "Pride" bullcrap he uses guns and double crosses dante by tricking him into thinking that he's his ally..
rather then just raising hell and waiting for Dante in Floor no #23
Rilgar
I fought the war but the war won't staaaahhhppp...
And along that same thought of doing away with spoilers; he's not in hell per se. Rather the demons start cropping up more and more as reality is blended with hell. When the book starts to describe this happening, it kinda loses me for a moment. That doesn't lessen the danger Dante faces at all, though.
Poor Grue though. Ad he would've been an awesome addition to mainstream cannon. It's a good thing he kinda-sorta lives on through the detective guy we get in the anime (Sorry, his name alludes me)