Red Queen

[Picard]

Found WarFantasy's look at the Red Queen:

Fantasy Weapons – Red Queen from Devil May Cry

Red Queen is a very specific sword which first appears in Devil May Cry 4 as a weapon for Nero. Red Queen as it appears in Devil May Cry 5 Major qualities of the sword are: balance, reach, hand pro…

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Do you think Red Queen is badly designed? It sure looks cool, but the post above makes the point that it looks heavy, likely unbalanced, and has less than perfect grip and hand protection.

Of course, what with Nero being a half-demon, most of these issues may well be non-issues.

 

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

Can't be anymore heavy or imbalanced than rebellion was and devil sword dante is with both being much larger than it

Plus the sword to these guys might aswell be twigs.

 

[Picard]

Can't be anymore heavy or imbalanced than rebellion was and devil sword dante is with both being much larger than it

Plus the sword to these guys might aswell be twigs.

Not sure about Rebellion, but DSD gives me the impression that the sword should be swinging Dante around.

Strength won't be of much help when sword is three times your own weight!

 

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

Well they are superhuman strong, dante casually blocked a punch from the saviour and then nonchalantly lifted and threw it's fist off him like it was nothing.

But to a normal human yes, everything but yamato would be stupid hard to wield.

 

[Picard]

Well they are superhuman strong, dante casually blocked a punch from the saviour and then nonchalantly lifted and threw it's fist off him like it was nothing.

Yeah, but Sword Dante makes me think Dante has to have gravity control to wield it...

 

[ef9dante_oSsshea]

Well he has telekinetic powers which were shown in DMC1, so even if he is above class 100 strength he would have that too.