In all fairness....NT has to stay remotely close to the source material as possibly they've already changed everything or 75% of the series...I can live with the characters change of looks, any new characters that weren't there before, making Eva an angel, changing up Dante's & Vergil's back-story drastically, making Vergil good (so it seems), an entirely different story, and making demons rule over mankind making what Sparda all for nought but f*cking up Sparda's legacy is where I draw the line.
The main thing that made DMC was Sparda and his events before the storyline...him defeating Mundus and sealing away the demon world and saving mankind and becoming a legend because of it set the standard for the story and Dante's character as well as Vergil's and probably Nero....he was literally the source material for the conception of all main antagonists in the series.
Mundus - his former right master and was betrayed by him now he wants revenge and is out to overthrow the world again but this time Sparda's son must stop him.
Argosax - demon god worshipped by the people of Dumary Island until Sparda sealed him away and Dante must prevent his return and finish what his father had started.
Arkham - a man who respected Sparda's power and wanted it so he can become like him.
Sanctus - the leader of an Order who worships him and adores him and all he really wants to is to really do what he thinks Sparda would've wanted and unite and free the world from chaos and have all of mankind acknowledge Sparda as the world's savoir like any Jesus/God fanatic would do too but he needed Sparda's power and legacy to do this and believes if he wants to achieve world peace he needs to have as much power as Sparda.
Its his legacy that defined the core values of DMC. Now if they erase all of that and just make him some powerful demon who rebelled against Mundus and died trying......I'm telling you the fans will flip out....what they did to Vergil, Dante, & other characters is easy to work with...Dante matures into the demon hunter we know as him, Vergil becomes power hungry or betrays Dante, and etc...all that they done now can work but messing with Sparda's legacy like that cannot be fixed...slightly alter it make some changes or threw in a few things...or remove some old stuff like the Dumary Island stuff or redo certain aspects about his legacy like how he sealed off the demon world or maybe edit it to the point that he only defeated Mundus but not completely seal away the demon world or work with Limbo and apply that someway with Sparda's legacy or something...ANYTHING but make Sparda's legacy be a guy who fought valiantly and lost...maybe they can still do that AFTER he became the legend he is recognized and explain why demons are running amok and why Sparda is gone and work with the concept of Limbo because I think everything about DmC pertaining to Sparda and his legacy should be as it is in DMC up til he sealed away the demon world.
As alternative universe and re-immagination of the serie it must distance itself as possible from original one. This is a new serie with new storyline.
two words: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.
They've already changed everything else outside the names for everything else....I mean every Superhero reboot have retained that one element that made the original series what is. Changing the ultimate lore of DMC is as if the Dark Knight trilogy Bruce Wayne's parents weren't rich millionaires but instead were commoners or poor homeless people and the only thing that NT hasn't yet touched upon yet is Sparda and even if it is a reboot, re-imagination, retelling, or whatever it still has to stay true or respect its source material and Sparda's legacy is what made DMC in the first place and DMC is what made DmC otherwise it would be too unrecognizable as Devil May Cry. They might as well re-title it Devils Never Cry or something.
All of the changes in DmC from the original DMC is fine but Sparda's legacy transcends DMC and if NT f*cks with that and does a complete 360 with his legacy instead of being this almighty demon who rebelled against his fellow demon brethren and saved the human race from extinction and was a legend but knew one day the demon emperor would rise again so he passed down his legacy to his 2 sons to finish it to a demon who rebelled against his own kind and lost and to have his 2 sons clean up his failures is when I...
Again; Alternate Universe.
Look at Vergil; he's no longer wanting to gain Sparda's power but instead wants to find his step father and kill all the demons while saving the human race. (Or so it seems) Sparda is most likely still the demon who sacrificed something in order to save the human race, but this time, he's more modern. Maybe he lived to defeat Mundus and sealed him 2000 years ago, but this time Mundus came back and caught Sparda without his unlimited power cause he sealed it away, thus Sparda being defeated and killed, leaving Dante and Vergil to fight instead.
This....this works...as long as Sparda still has a legacy in this game cause what made Sparda's legacy so strong is his name. His name carried a lot of weight and that affected the actions in the current timeline of DMC.
If Sparda's name is carried in shame and failure......this game has failed me as a DMC fan.
[/quote]This....this works...as long as Sparda still has a legacy in this game cause what made Sparda's legacy so strong is his name. His name carried a lot of weight and that affected the actions in the current timeline of DMC.
If Sparda's name is carried in shame and failure......this game has failed me as a DMC fan.
Actually "too big for your own boots" is an old English saying that means behaving as if you are more important than you really are.
eg. "He's been getting a bit too big for his boots since he got that promotion."
It is the equivalent to the American saying "too big for your britches"
Pretty much Mundus is saying Dante thinks he is the sh*t which could imply that Sparda defeated him and sealed away the demon world, thus Sparda thought he was the best.....in fact that is the best way to describe DMC Dante & DMC Sparda.
I just hope whatever they do, Sparda and Eva get more of a role in this game than they did in the original series. They were always just word of mouth. I want to see them, even if it's in a flashback.