I got into DmC because of
Trip's robot costume that led me to watching an entire walkthrough of Ninja Theory's other game
Enslaved: Odyssey For Steroids-I mean To the West. Up until that point my response to DmC was' Dante you suck, you really suck'. Saw the very
early footage of Underwatch not longer after Enslaved, which was the first time seeing real cutscenes in DmC, and just started feeling different after that. My doubts on Dante went as well from seeing how he behaved during those little scenes between combat. So it was the story/character element that won me over first before the combat did.
Now when I see trolls or really negative comments on the game from people, I just respond like this to them:
^_^ Fighting with kindness!