Chaos Raiden
Avid Gamer & Reviewer
Share us what do you love or hate about DMC4. Since this game has disappointed a number of people (including me) in many ways, might as well share what we have love or hate in common about this game.
What I love about this game:
1. Addictive gameplay that makes you play the game many times. Nero's Exceed attacks and Buster are the stylish moves of the games, and Dante can switch Styles anytime to suit the phases of each battles effectively.
2. Superb graphics. Characters facial emotions are delivered perfectly, and plenty of refreshing fan service. Environments like Fortuna Castle and Mitis Forest are exceptionally well designed.
3. Memorable characters and bosses. Characters like Credo, Kyrie, Nero and Agnus are well-done by the developers. Berial, Echidna, Angelo Credo, Angelo Agnus are well designed bosses. The lesser demons are well designed too.
4. Well-done soundtrack. Multiple tracks in the game are epic masterpiece, like Angelo Credo's battle theme and Echidna's battle theme too.
5. Solid voice acting. Nero's and Dante's voice actor delivered great performance with high quality motion capture stunts.
What I hate about this game:
1. Easy difficulty. The difficulty is much easier than DMC1, DMC3: DA and DMC3: SE but harder than DMC2. Enemy attacks doesn't deal much damage to Nero and Dante, and they are quite slow compared to DMC3 enemies. Weaker demons and bosses were only challenging in Dante Must Die! Mode and Hell and Hell Mode. Tuned up difficulty can make this game better and more challenging.
2. Repeated level designs. Replaying Nero's sections with Dante and seeing the same environment all over again can makes you bored seeing it. Exclusive levels to Nero and Dante only will fix this problem.
3. Lack of boss's variety. Repeating of same boss fights with Nero and Dante can be quite annoying to some people, especially if there are no variety of bosses like DMC3. Exclusive bosses to each character and added number of bosses can make this game much better.
4. Shortage of missions. Nero has only 13 missions while Dante has only 7 missions, which makes an uneven gameplay balance. Nero and Dante should have a fair share of missions, like 20 missions for each of them. Two side of stories for this game like DMC2 will work, with two DVDs for XBox 360. One is Nero's story, and one is Dante's story. The PS3 version should follow the same, except all in one Blu Ray disc.
5. Strange and rushed story telling. The addition of Nero to DMC franchise has not only popularised the DMC series, but confusing the entire DMC series as well. No background story about Nero is told, no confirmation of his relationship with Sparda, the origins of Devil Bringer, and etc. The story also looked like rushed, with fast pacing of the story telling. A steadier story telling with more information telling will work much better to complement Nero's relationship with Sparda. Hopefully, DMC5 will explain this.
6. Lack of bonus costumes. This game has the least of bonus costumes available like DMC2. Dante's clothes in DMC1 and Nero's original art design will work well as bonus costumes.
7. Lack of weapons. Dante lacks more Devil Arms and Firearms than the previous games, even in DMC2. Nero has only 4 weapons (including Yamato and Devil Bringer), Dante has only 7 weapons (including Yamato). Addition of more weapons will make this game better too.
Share what do you love and hate about this game with everyone else. And please, no flaming or bashing towards other people's opinion.
What I love about this game:
1. Addictive gameplay that makes you play the game many times. Nero's Exceed attacks and Buster are the stylish moves of the games, and Dante can switch Styles anytime to suit the phases of each battles effectively.
2. Superb graphics. Characters facial emotions are delivered perfectly, and plenty of refreshing fan service. Environments like Fortuna Castle and Mitis Forest are exceptionally well designed.
3. Memorable characters and bosses. Characters like Credo, Kyrie, Nero and Agnus are well-done by the developers. Berial, Echidna, Angelo Credo, Angelo Agnus are well designed bosses. The lesser demons are well designed too.
4. Well-done soundtrack. Multiple tracks in the game are epic masterpiece, like Angelo Credo's battle theme and Echidna's battle theme too.
5. Solid voice acting. Nero's and Dante's voice actor delivered great performance with high quality motion capture stunts.
What I hate about this game:
1. Easy difficulty. The difficulty is much easier than DMC1, DMC3: DA and DMC3: SE but harder than DMC2. Enemy attacks doesn't deal much damage to Nero and Dante, and they are quite slow compared to DMC3 enemies. Weaker demons and bosses were only challenging in Dante Must Die! Mode and Hell and Hell Mode. Tuned up difficulty can make this game better and more challenging.
2. Repeated level designs. Replaying Nero's sections with Dante and seeing the same environment all over again can makes you bored seeing it. Exclusive levels to Nero and Dante only will fix this problem.
3. Lack of boss's variety. Repeating of same boss fights with Nero and Dante can be quite annoying to some people, especially if there are no variety of bosses like DMC3. Exclusive bosses to each character and added number of bosses can make this game much better.
4. Shortage of missions. Nero has only 13 missions while Dante has only 7 missions, which makes an uneven gameplay balance. Nero and Dante should have a fair share of missions, like 20 missions for each of them. Two side of stories for this game like DMC2 will work, with two DVDs for XBox 360. One is Nero's story, and one is Dante's story. The PS3 version should follow the same, except all in one Blu Ray disc.
5. Strange and rushed story telling. The addition of Nero to DMC franchise has not only popularised the DMC series, but confusing the entire DMC series as well. No background story about Nero is told, no confirmation of his relationship with Sparda, the origins of Devil Bringer, and etc. The story also looked like rushed, with fast pacing of the story telling. A steadier story telling with more information telling will work much better to complement Nero's relationship with Sparda. Hopefully, DMC5 will explain this.
6. Lack of bonus costumes. This game has the least of bonus costumes available like DMC2. Dante's clothes in DMC1 and Nero's original art design will work well as bonus costumes.
7. Lack of weapons. Dante lacks more Devil Arms and Firearms than the previous games, even in DMC2. Nero has only 4 weapons (including Yamato and Devil Bringer), Dante has only 7 weapons (including Yamato). Addition of more weapons will make this game better too.
Share what do you love and hate about this game with everyone else. And please, no flaming or bashing towards other people's opinion.