For what?
For being a really good, fun as hell game.
Itsuno is just a craftsman. It's been 18 years but he still can't outshine Kamiya.
The fact that he doesn't use QTE and keeps making the most technical action games with his DMCs alone are more than enough for me to rate it above Kamiya. You'd be surprised by how many people think the same too.
Also, Platinum Games doesn't get the same praise and sales simply because not all their games are as good, simple as that. For example, their Transformers, Ninja Turtle and MGR too received a lot of criticism in that regard and ironically (given your thoughts on DMC5), one of the major complaints about the recent titles like the former two was that they play way to similarly, without the benefit of being as fun as they could have been.
To me Platinum Games is a company that pretty much lives off of Bayonetta's fame, and that's the only franchise of theirs that actually stands out. Even Bayonetta 2 didn't sit well with a fair number of fans btw.
Is this series turning into Star Wars
No. Star Wars has been churning out bad movie after bad movie and it ain't stopping. DMC5 is damn good.
And besides, I'm sorry but if you haven't played the game you have 0 right to talk about its gameplay feeling the exact same as DMC4. There are new mechanics in DMC5, which you wouldn't know about unless you play it.
For starters, the entirety of V.
Also, while there are indeed weapons returning from past games, they all have a plethora of new moves or even new forms. And mechanics. The gauntlets have two separate modes and Ignition, Cerberus is multi-formed and has Just Frames now, Cavaliere is completely new and has Grind Wheel, DSD is a thing giving Dante summoned swords that function differently compared to Vergil and Nero's, Sin DT etc etc, you get the gist.
Nero has a whole new mechanics of his own too in his Devil Breakers.
I find your criticism inherently superficial and (not intended in an offensive manner, but rather a literal one) quite ignorant.
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