@meg5493 I don't remember vergil laughing at Nero s mom memory, he only say: well that was a long time ago... Re 6 simply take Jake muller out of nowhere and put it into the Re series, at least Nero was introduced in dmc 4 in a more good way, also you can't say that we know vergil entire backstory since we no nothing, we almost know nothing about dante how can we know everything about vergil? After Eva is killed there is a 10 years gap about vergil doing things and growing as a character that we never see... We only have to wait and see how future game expand this, they take vergil back probably he will become one of the playable character in future dmc game and they can expand on him further...
Showing that vergil went to fortuna is not out of place since vergil was always searching information about sparda and since fortuna was a place in Wich sparda went in the past, vergil decided to go there and find info about sparda...
We later saw him doing the same things in dmc 3 manga and dmc 3 vergil prologue... They are just expanding the character, by telling us more info about him, obviously people can like this or not, but Capcom is no wrong in adding more info about him imo....
My mistake on the laughing I remember Vergil being way more sarcastic at that bit, it's more bashful/laid back then say in DMC3 when Dante tries to pry into Vergils business and he lashes out to get him to back off. The point is it's played as a joke or playful banter between the two when 5 seconds before Dante was literally going to kill his brother. Like the game totally plays off Vergil cut Nero's arm off and no one addresses it not even during either of the fights against him.
Jakes whole arc in RE6 is upon replaying pretty fantastic for a capcom game he's an ass who hated his dad for ditching him and his mom and becomes a mercenary to support them, she dies, he closes himself off. And then he meets Sherry, learns his dad was a huge jerk for trying to screw over the world and that his blood is the cure to help save lives. He starts off as this self centered jerk whose only in it for the money but he meets the guy who killed his dad and he has this moment were he could lash out at this guy, for killing his dad, for not being the one to do it, for not getting answer why, but he doesn't he's changed and by the end the symbolism of him and Sherry the children of two of the biggest baddies in the series being heroes and saving the day is mwah *chefs kiss* RE6 knocked it out of the ball park if you can get past Wesker of all people having knocked up a chick back in the 80s. We get new characters all of the time in RE it's not having to rely on the same 3 characters all the time.
We know Vergils life atleast the big moments as well as Dantes but
At 8 he's mom is killed by mundas and he goes into hiding
17 he meets Arkham who shows him the way to summon Ti mini gur
18 he summons the tower faces off against Dante trapping himself into hell/fights mundas
28 he's served as Nelo Angelo for 10 years fights against Dante and *killed*
38 present DMC5 time
Like later in his life sure there are big enough blanks in the story for Vergil to have his own adventures, hell 5 doesn't even tell us what Vergil has been doing for 10yrs after they revealed he wasn't killed in 1. But they intentionally smacked his meeting with Nero's mom pre DMC3 manga making the whole thing rushed since all we get is 2 scenes of him walking and we can only hope he's like 16/17 otherwise it'd be really weird. Yes he goes to Fortuna because of Sparda, but sucks to say we get nothing from this inclusion as it was just a cheap tack on for the special edition. We could argue circles around this point in Vergils life, but it would be pointless since we know absolutely nothing aside from this being set before the manga. The fact of the matter is Vergil was most likely supposed to stay dead and Nero was supposed to be his successor ala Apollo Justice to Phoenix. Plus this was the supposed end of Dante's and Vergil's story so suffice to say we aren't getting more info with Vergil being a central narrative focus which is why it would need to be resolved in Visions of V.
Vergil has no redeeming moment, he has no arc in 5 and the game just fixes this by everyone 180* to accomadate this. Where does he shine out in 5 thats not a straight rip from 3? V was underutilalized, Urizen was a complete characuture and just sits around waiting for the 1/2 of Vergil reveal. The villian wins, he gets what he wants and everything bad that the villian did to our main cast is fixed. I knew even if I didn't want it that Vergil was going to be redeemed, but I could never imagine it would be done so half assed.
And this is the last thing I wanna say on the matter, I hate Vergil in 5, I hate it to the point that he's ruined for me in subsequent replays of 3, he used to be my favorite character and I could stand him being Nero's father in 4. Knowing this is the conclusion just leaves a sour taste in my mouth
BUT! That doesn't mean you can't like or love or enjoy what they did in 5, or be excited for the possibility of new info on his life. I was disappointed with the story and thats why I posted this thread, I enjoy hearing others opinions and their takes on the matter.
Yeah I think I’m with most people on this. The end was just a bit mad for me.
The Vergil battle with Dante was good.
But then to give us basically the same fight again but with Nero was flat out wrong.
It was almost like they got to the end and went ‘oh wow.. people will be wanting a father - son battle and we haven’t done that yet...’
I feel that fight should’ve at least taken place somewhere else. It wouldn’t be difficult for the Qliphoth to crumble after the fight with Dante and for all 3 of them to fall to the ground and only Nero and Vergil rise from the ashes, for Nero to call his father out and destroy him on a wasteland on earth level with chaos happening all around them.
I definitely didn’t like the Vergil redemption either. It felt so unnatural. They should’ve kept him going the way he was and found another way to change his course. Like Nero beating him into submission and calling the shots.
I loved the story for this game but it fell apart at the end for me.
Also, there were a few little bits of conflicting dialogue in the Dante/Nero battle.
Dante shouts at Vergil ‘You cut off your own sons arm just to gain more power’ or sonething
And Vergil snaps back ‘MY SON MEANS NOTHING TO ME!!!’
And then right after that fight, the first words out of his mouth are ‘Nero is my son???’
I definitely feel like the end was rushed.
And also putting the game at the end of the timeline and paying no mind to DMC2.. didn’t like that either.
In regards to Dante, there were some really good moments. The moment he has to tell Nero Vergil is his father was a reaaalllly well acted / directed sequence.
But again, I feel like I wanted him to be a bit more serious this time around.
I dunno.
It seems on here though, that most people have the same thoughts towards the story.
Says a lot!
Still loved the game through and through though!
The games 2/3 with V and Nero just trying to survive and fix the mess was great and I had a lot of fun with most of the bosses shown. I will forever be bitter though that Lucia wasn't the one inside Artemis but I digress.... It's definitely when Dante shows up when things to start to get messy as thats when we start to get the retcons and rushed pacing since we're pretty much towards the end of the game. The fact that they switched 2 before 4 really killed a lot of my hype tbh, thought its all on me and not their fault, I was expecting Dante to have just returned from hell to find things about to go to **** (thats why he's power and plumbing were off).
I just didn't like what they did to Dante, didn't help that I replayed DMC1 before hand and he was just so weirdly knowledgable and this super cool cheesy action hero that it reminded me why I love that era Dante (1,2 and the early novels). But 5 just made him the butt of a joke living in filth, getting pushed around by literally everyone every time we see them, and just being stupid (that having to use my brain for once line still irks me)
Put those are personal that I know not everyone will agree with, but yeah the moment with Dante letting slip that Vergil is his father was nice, that and when V had to drag Nero away were probably some of my fav moments from the game. It's just a shame that the 3rd act had to be soooo bad and messy especially since the game it tries to emulate the most ,DMC3, had a fantastic finale.
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@meg5493
I don't mind the slice of life aspect, my problem is with Dante himself. He wasn't compelling enough to follow on a day to day basis. I don't need him to be as crazy as the games but i do want him to be interesting.
The depression idea is just a way to give him a struggle and connect to the games. The anime is jarring to be a good followup to DMC3 and it killed a lot of enthusiasm i had for Dante.
I can understand that and I'm sure the new anime will most likely scratch that itch for you. I actually kinda wanna rewatch the anime because I remember mostly the the interesting bits (the gambling ep/cursed record/
Modeus/ and the finale ep)