So Dante going into fighting the Gate guardians already HAVING the stolenm devil arms instead of recovering them after teh fightg is the game contridicting itself and NOT the novel contridicting the game? Or the fact that by word of Kobayashi, the game's director, DMC4 takes place ten years after DMC3, and Nero is the same age in DMC4 that Dante was in DMC3, thus making "Nero = Vergil's love child" a total impossibility?
Novel outright conflicts with the game's own events, and was done after the fact, it's not like the DMC1 prequel novel and DMC3 which came out four years later. Deal with it, the DMC4 novel is a licensed fanfic of what Bingo wante dto do in the story, but got over ruled on.