Well, after 2 pages I just couldn't keep reading, but it certainly has gotten lively around here again.
So, Vergil.
Virgirio in Spanish. He certainly has changed. Prefers a more profesional look to a more avangard. From white haired to blond. From blue coat to blue troucers. From a white Katana to black. And why are his lips so dark along with the inside of his mouth? Millionare software genious. Lives in a dark cave with alot of people wearing masks. Noticed that Kat didn't have to... just saying, someone playin' favorites here?
It's hard to say how I feel about him. He is deffinitly not the Vergil of old but for some reason they tryed very hard to make Dante the Dante of old but with a new look. Why not Vergil, why the subtle change in the design but the drastic change in character, the opposite of Dante?
Vergil seems bland now but with a hint of a dark undertone. I've compaired him to David from Prometeus once and that is still my assesment. Sometimes robotic, sometimes syntetic, like a robot programed to say the things he says and mimicing the emotions rather than actually feeling them. The way he greets him, the way he tells him who he is, even that whole line about humanity vs a girl seem ungeniune, superficial, almost performened.
Virgil was a samurai in so many respects but now he seems like an corporate robot who mimics a personality.
I don't mind that they'd changed the desire for power (by joining with the demons) to a desire for revenge (to kill demons) but his personality just isn't striking me or even sitting well with the image of Vergil I have. Replace the body and the personality just doesn't hold up. Dante, on the other hand can be replaced with a red coat and emo white hair style and we're back. Not Vergil.
I'm glad that Vergil is there, as promised by Annon, and I'm pleased his playable.