All I am going to say is, I reckon Devil May Cry 5 will not succeed in being a well received game.
Capcom are saying "Hey, we want to give all the fans what they want"... Okay, right. So basically, they are going to include Nero in it. But at the same time, kill Nero. They are going to bring Vergil back. But at the same time, they aren't going to include him in the game at all. And they are going to try and focus on the structure of the story. Whilst at the same time, forget all about it. Honestly, that is the worst thing you can ever say about your well loved franchise. "I'm going to give fans what they want". That's like saying "I want to make this the greatest thing ever, but I'm going to seriously screw it up". As soon as Capcom stated that, they may as well of dug their grave as well. They haven't got a single hope in all of Hell to achieve that, and make every fan happy. Nobody is going to say the game was everything they wanted, because they can't do it. They can't give us all what we want, so the game will get a 50% rating. Making it the worst one of all time.
Simply due to the fact that in every other game, they put heart into it. They put a story there. They put the characters there. They put excellent game-play there. And they never ever said they were going to make it epic, it just made it happen itself. Now they are setting themselves goals and standards, that we never said we wanted them to do in the first place.
It saddens me to know that the game will be loved and hated equally. It's such an awful shame, when it was a great series.
There was a good story from the start. There was a mysterious element to it, that was new and fun. You all know how the story goes. Now the story is "Who is Nero?", and "What happened to Vergil". Um, hello, what happened to Dante more like? All fans are talking about are Nero and Vergil, as if Dante has had his day. When he was the main reason I started to play the Devil May Cry games anyway. If they want to give fans what they want, they may as well kill Dante off. Keep him dead forever, and bring his twin brother Vergil back. Keep going on about Nero's past until we get the big picture, and then pull the plug on it all by wrapping it all up in a big final game that potentially doesn't go anywhere, achieves nothing, and explains nothing to us.
/Rant over.