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DmC: Devil May Cry - From Another Perspective

Dante47

Dante47

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For now, I'd like to put our petty differences aside. I'd like to share a story.

There is a young las, only at the age of eight, who goes by the name Lily.
Lily, as a matter of fact, is my younger sister.
One day, I was asked to watch over my little sister over the weekend.
Mind you all, she has never seen many mature films or played hardly any violent video games.

I sat in my room playing the new Devil May Cry, DmC, and she happened upon me as I was playing. I made little notice of it, as I was intent on beating the game on Dante Must Die.
She sat with a curious and peculiar sparkle in her eyes as she watched me play.
Naturally, I asked if she wanted to take a jab at the game. She exclaimed, "Yes!"

I set her on the Human difficulty setting and let her go loose.
I saw her cheeks turn bright red when Dante traversed through the trailer putting his clothes on, and heard her deviously laugh as Dante said words our parents forbade us from saying.

When the game started, she had issues, and raged quite often whilst playing. That being said, she reminded me of a strapping young fellow who angered his way through a particular PlayStation 2 title.
When she beat the level, she stood triumphant, and I could see she was actually liking the game.

As she progressed very slowly forward, she relayed her thoughts on the characters, and how she adored Dante. Not the best role model, but still.

At this point, she only just beat the second mission. I asked her, "What do you think will happen next?"
Following that, she gave me the most surreal look. She was actually thinking about it. Wondering and guessing.
To say the least, it was wonderful.

I have to say, to see her like this, so invested in this kind of mature and dark fiction, it makes me sort of proud. Maybe this will inspire her to start looking at all types of fantastic literature and film.
If so, then DmC has more sentimentality to me than other entries in the series.

Lily has a long journey ahead of her before she beats DmC, but I'm confident she will.
 
Lol thats sort of how i found devil may cry, my cosuin who was living with us, broke my ps2 and bought me a new one and brought over his copies of devil may cry, i sat there watching him play, i never played the game until he left a month later and left the games for me. Played them so much, even dmc2 though it was.....yeah
 
Dante47 said:
For now, I'd like to put our petty differences aside. I'd like to share a story.

There is a young lad, only at the age of eight, who goes by the name Lily.
Lily, as a matter of fact, is my younger sister.
One day, I was asked to watch over my little sister over the weekend.
Mind you all, she has never seen many mature films or played hardly any violent video games.

I sat in my room playing the new Devil May Cry, DmC, and she happened upon me as I was playing. I made little notice of it, as I was intent on beating the game on Dante Must Die.
She sat with a curious and peculiar sparkle in her eyes as she watched me play.
Naturally, I asked if she wanted to take a jab at the game. She exclaimed, "Yes!"

I set her on the Human difficulty setting and let her go loose.
I saw her cheeks turn bright red when Dante traversed through the trailer putting his clothes on, and heard her deviously laugh as Dante said words our parents forbade us from saying.

When the game started, she had issues, and raged quite often whilst playing. That being said, she reminded me of a strapping young fellow who angered his way through a particular PlayStation 2 title.
When she beat the level, she stood triumphant, and I could see she was actually liking the game.

As she progressed very slowly forward, she relayed her thoughts on the characters, and how she adored Dante. Not the best role model, but still.

At this point, she only just beat the second mission. I asked her, "What do you think will happen next?"
Following that, she gave me the most surreal look. She was actually thinking about it. Wondering and guessing.
To say the least, it was wonderful.

I have to say, to see her like this, so invested in this kind of mature and dark fiction, it makes me sort of proud. Maybe this will inspire her to start looking at all types of fantastic literature and film.
If so, then DmC has more sentimentality to me than other entries in the series.

Lily has a long journey ahead of her before she beats DmC, but I'm confident she will.
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Your little sister sounds just like mine. I recently got my little sister into the visual novel of Fate/ Stay night (NOTE: I installed a patch that got rid of all of the "H" scenes.) She has always been above and beyond when it comes to reading and I figured she'd like it. I've always been a huge fan of the fate series, and I've always been able to get my little sister into what I also like. But what I wasn't expecting was her sudden love for the story, characters, and events of Fate. She immediately took a liking to Shirou, and I quote her exact words. "He's just like me. We both want to protect the people we love, you, Sarah, and mommy." She fell in love with Rin and Archer and loved them for their adorable quirkiness and she has a huge girl-crush on Saber. She actually thinks about what's going to happen to characters and who's who, who will die and who will live. She wants for Shirou and Saber to win so badly, but at the same time she doesn't want Rin or Archer to get hurt. I've never seen her so drawn to a story before, and I can't wait to see what ending she'll find for herself. Its times like these when I can truly love being a big sister and love everything about our relationship.

Though at the moment I'm currently in high school living with my father, so my sisters are several thousand miles away. I miss them dearly and it always makes me smile when I can read something that reminds me of them, for instance your little sister. Its always wonderful to see other people happy and content with what they have, and I couldn't help but feel the same way when I read your post. I commend you for opening up your little sisters horizons to different forms of media and content. You and your sister rock! I hope that when I return to my mother's for the summer, I'll be able to get her to love Dante and DmC as well.

PROUD TO BE A BIG SIBLING. *BROFIST*

Your little sister sounds great and horribly wonderful. Being an older sibling rocks,
 
A young lad name Lily? Your sister is a lad? This confuses me.

But, back on topic, I wouldn't read too much into her reaction. Kids have a natural tendency to like things that include violent and "naughty" things that our parents would be scared to allow us to see. It's one of the reasons why games like GTA are famous and so controversial.

Though it is nice hearing stories of little kids getting into video games. I used to let my little sister (seven years old now) play DMC 3. She loved Dante because she thought he was cool (especially since she thought it was awesome that he was wearing red and red happened to be my favorite color).

But you know what. Your sister probably didn't like playing the game because of the game (though that was probably a major reason). She probably liked it so much because she was playing with you. If there's anything that I learned, it's that playing games with your siblings makes the experience 100x better than playing it by yourself. You can be certain that when she grows older and she hears about DmC, she'll won't just say, "I remember that game." She'll say, "I remember playing that game with my older brother."

So does your sister's reaction prove that DmC is good game? No. Does it mean that it's a fun game? Definitely, kids are professionals at fun. All I got to say is, from older brother to older brother, keep up doing your thing as an older brother and help her along her journey as a young gamer. Of course, I need to do the same as well.
 
This was really adorable and I think Lily has good taste.... future gamer FTW!! I actually became a fan of DMC in a similar fashion when I saw my older brother playing years ago. He let me try it out and soon I ended up taking over his own game and while he never bought a DMC title again I was a fan for life.
 
Railazel said:
A young lad name Lily? Your sister is a lad? This confuses me.
You can be certain that when she grows older and she hears about DmC, she'll won't just say, "I remember that game." She'll say, "I remember playing that game with my older brother."

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I love this right here and I have to say I always used video games as an excuse to spend time with my older brother (he probably knew it to lol). I had no other siblings and was so much younger than him that I never really got to spend time with him unless I watched him playing video games. I always used to be so depressed when he would go out with friends and I couldn't go. I eventually started playing games on my own time and it became my own hobby but I'll always have those nice memories. This actually makes me wish I had a younger brother or sister now. :(

Anyway this is such a feel good thread....yeah I know I'm lame.
 
Onecrazymonkey1 said:
I always used to be so depressed when he would go out with friends and I couldn't go. I eventually started playing games on my own time and it became my own hobby but I'll always have those nice memories. This actually makes me wish I had a younger brother or sister now. :(
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I feel your pain.
I had an older sister who didn't spend much time with me. So naturally, I never really had anyone to indulge my games with.
It's nice to have this with Lily, and I hope it is for her.
 
Onecrazymonkey1 said:
I love this right here and I have to say I always used video games as an excuse to spend time with my older brother (he probably knew it to lol). I had no other siblings and was so much younger than him that I never really got to spend time with him unless I watched him playing video games. I always used to be so depressed when he would go out with friends and I couldn't go. I eventually started playing games on my own time and it became my own hobby but I'll always have those nice memories. This actually makes me wish I had a younger brother or sister now. :(

Anyway this is such a feel good thread....yeah I know I'm lame.
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Cheer up. You've got the best signature here. I wouldn't mind jumping in a rusty white van with Dante...
 
Dante47 said:
I feel your pain.
I had an older sister who didn't spend much time with me. So naturally, I never really had anyone to indulge my games with.
It's nice to have this with Lily, and I hope it is for her.
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If you keep creating nice memories like these I'm sure it will be for her! and even if it's not she'll always have an older brother who she'll be close with to look up to and you can't really beat that anyway. :)
 
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