Veloran
Well-known Member
Can we talk about how at the end of this game the clock suddenly strikes Dante O'clock?
TL;DW:
TL;DW:
Near the climax everybody has been infected with the Sigma virus and only have a few hours left at most before they fall under his control, and are gearing up for a final attack to take him down.
However they need the fourth infinity stone, the Soul Stone, in order to have a chance at beating him, and Jedah (Who is effectively the antagonist that caused all of the world-collapsing to happen in the first place) still has it and is hold up in Makai.
Dante takes the responsibility of going to defeat Jedah and retrieve it, alone, while everyone else goes on with each of the other missions. If he doesn't come through on this, the entire plan fails and everyone dies. Of course he does beat Jedah and take the stone, but then the stone basically reveals that even with four of the six infinity stones at once, there's no way that they can beat Ultron-Sigma, and Dante says that he'll just do it his own way instead.
Flash forward. Everyone is losing to Ultron-Sigma really hard, when suddenly he reveals that he knows their plans and that it's already ruined - Before they ever got inside his citadel, Dante came to him and offered the Soul Stone in exchange for joining Ultron-Sigma and surviving, betraying them all. Of course this was a ruse, and when Ultron-Sigma attempts to use the Soul Stone on them, it instead backfires and destroys his perfect form because he is a soulless being, and twists him into a monstrosity that can actually be defeated. Subsequently the penultimate fight is basically "save Dante from Ultron-Omega because he's so goddamn angry" and the final fight is Dante and Captain Marvel beating him up while X charges up the big infinity stone buster to destroy him for good.
So, looking at this in totality, I'm actually astounded by how much emphasis they placed on Dante here. I think he has more screentime and story relevance than even Ryu, he beats one of the most powerful Darkstalkers while even more supped up than he ever was in the canon of that series, he tricks and backstabs two of the most intelligent beings in multiple universes to destroy their plans, and at the very end he's the Capcom posterboy for the last battle. In the epilogue, I'm even pretty sure Dante is entrusted with the damn Soul Stone permanently because they can't figure out how to separate the universes yet.
I'm kind of awestruck. This is literally the most story content that Dante has had in like ten years, and it's actually pretty good. The showdown between him and Jedah is basically the highlight of the entire game, not that what it's being shown against is exactly stellar. There's even this great moment after he wins where Dante momentarily pulls a Vergil and is transfixed by the alluring power of the stone, a character trait showing his similarities to Vergil that was basically just informed and not shown for years.
It boggles my mind that they actually gave him this level of focus, even if it was just towards the end.
However they need the fourth infinity stone, the Soul Stone, in order to have a chance at beating him, and Jedah (Who is effectively the antagonist that caused all of the world-collapsing to happen in the first place) still has it and is hold up in Makai.
Dante takes the responsibility of going to defeat Jedah and retrieve it, alone, while everyone else goes on with each of the other missions. If he doesn't come through on this, the entire plan fails and everyone dies. Of course he does beat Jedah and take the stone, but then the stone basically reveals that even with four of the six infinity stones at once, there's no way that they can beat Ultron-Sigma, and Dante says that he'll just do it his own way instead.
Flash forward. Everyone is losing to Ultron-Sigma really hard, when suddenly he reveals that he knows their plans and that it's already ruined - Before they ever got inside his citadel, Dante came to him and offered the Soul Stone in exchange for joining Ultron-Sigma and surviving, betraying them all. Of course this was a ruse, and when Ultron-Sigma attempts to use the Soul Stone on them, it instead backfires and destroys his perfect form because he is a soulless being, and twists him into a monstrosity that can actually be defeated. Subsequently the penultimate fight is basically "save Dante from Ultron-Omega because he's so goddamn angry" and the final fight is Dante and Captain Marvel beating him up while X charges up the big infinity stone buster to destroy him for good.
So, looking at this in totality, I'm actually astounded by how much emphasis they placed on Dante here. I think he has more screentime and story relevance than even Ryu, he beats one of the most powerful Darkstalkers while even more supped up than he ever was in the canon of that series, he tricks and backstabs two of the most intelligent beings in multiple universes to destroy their plans, and at the very end he's the Capcom posterboy for the last battle. In the epilogue, I'm even pretty sure Dante is entrusted with the damn Soul Stone permanently because they can't figure out how to separate the universes yet.
I'm kind of awestruck. This is literally the most story content that Dante has had in like ten years, and it's actually pretty good. The showdown between him and Jedah is basically the highlight of the entire game, not that what it's being shown against is exactly stellar. There's even this great moment after he wins where Dante momentarily pulls a Vergil and is transfixed by the alluring power of the stone, a character trait showing his similarities to Vergil that was basically just informed and not shown for years.
It boggles my mind that they actually gave him this level of focus, even if it was just towards the end.
