http://www.jeuxactu.com/article-47520-tgs-10-devil-may-cry-5-devient-dmc.html
I ask my fellow forum members to pardon my French but...WHAT THE ****?!!?
I mean, really, are they serious? :facepalm: And oh look! he's got a stupid hipster haircut and he SMOKES. How adorable! I bet this means we are also getting curse words and boobies because this is clearly a mature game intended for mature audiences!
And if we get lucky we might get a sex mini-game where this guy who goes by the name of Dante gets it on with two apparently super hawt demon babes who look butt-ugly because Western developers can't properly render a girl to save their lives, followed by a cutscene of Dante crying about his mother.
I'm calling it now - this is going to be EXACTLY like GoW. The whole story will be him wangsting about his dead family to make the player sympathise with his sorried ass, but since he's a complete and utter jerk on everything he does, we'll end up hating his guts instead.
I know the DMC series are hardly the epythome of "class", they've always been cheesy. But that's the thing, "cheesy" is fun. Seeing Dante getting impaled only to get up and grab a slice of pizza, the whole gothic castles+guns&swords+heavy metal+over the top cutscenes formula is what makes the series great. Putting aside a few key sequences, Dante does everything "with a smile" - to me that's what makes the character likeable. Now my first impression is that they're trying to make this "gritty" and "edgy" like every boring, half-baked Western action game. "Cheesy" is good. This is "disgustingly tacky". DMC was good for it's cheeky can't-take-this-seriously value. And now, they striped it of it.
I'm at least happy Asura's Wrath is more faithful to the DMC spirit then this.
Can I blame Kobayashi for this? I'm sort of getting that urge... I think this make-over is partly because of the crisis the Japanese gaming industry is undergoing.
Capcom themselves acknowledged that, so I imagine next titles will be made to cater to the taste (more like lack of it!) of the average Western gamer. Inafune has even claimed they want Dead Rising to be Capcom's top franchise, suplanting the RE series.
Anyway, my apologies for this long winded angry venting. Having a bit of a rough day here, and this didn't help at all. :bowdown: