Mundus adressed Dante as "A Sparda" showing that it is a title.
Title...or is it surname? You don't know for sure in what context Mundus was referring to Dante as "A Sparda". Also for me it still dosen't explain why the LDK is referred to as Sparda in the save game menu. Why not just "Older Dante" or "Dante"? When is Dante ever been called "Sparda"? He's got his own damn name.
Another argument I've just come up with: Why does DMC1 call it "CHARACTER CHANGE" when starting a fresh game if all you get is Dante, Older Dante and Super Dante? If that is the case then they ought to have called it "COSTUME CHANGE", if we only get to play as variations of Dante, and if you are right then we are not being able to play as different characters at all.
You misunderstood me the LDK looks the same age in both DMC1 and in DMC3.
Nope. Read again:
Solidus said:
And some are saying he's supposed to be an -older- version of Dante. In both games LDK is made to be the same age and appearance as Dante. If LDK is an older Dante why does LDK look correspondingly younger in DMC3?
you basically said that Sparda had no creative power
Nope sorry. Said nothing of the sort. Perhaps I might have implied that Sparda cannot click his fingers and make blond chicks appear out of thin air...which to me is more of a mean feat than doing some trickery to make oneself appear human.
thus he'd be incapable of creating a disguise for himself and if he did have that sort of craetive power he would have been able to create Dante and or Vergil.
He dosen't need any damn "creator" power, maybe it's the power to CHANGE what he already has. To add to this I have a another side theory: You know how in the DMC3 story it says that at some point Sparda started to fear his own powers had become too strong and decided to seal them away with the Force Edge in the underworld? Well maybe when he did that, maybe a side effect to that was that he was left looking human-like.
I think we've established that Yamato was once a sword belonging to Sparda then to Vergil but in Vergil's absence Dante wouldn't want any old putrifying demon to handle Yamato.
Fair enough, but I don't think that Dante gives a rat's backside about the Yamato, especially since he's already clocked up about a hundred cool devil arms now, each with their own unique elemental devil powers.
If it was Sparda in human form like you say, he'd look 2000 years old
He just had to look human to fit in with society and get laid. He just had to. I don't think he aged the same way as humans: "A devil knight took pity on humans for their brief, transient lives". We don't know how old he looked when ever he finally did die.
Also who cares if it's modern day, how many people do you see carrying a sword the size of a bloody car around with them, also I don't see any real people going about their every day lives in a trench coat. A monocle is just as bizzare admittedly, but I don't see either happening.
If LDK is Dante, it still dosen't make sense to me that he would suddenly after all those years decide now would be the time to change his style of hair and clothes and start wearing a monocle, even after DMC4 and DMC2.
Also can I reiterate a previously run argument: if LDK is an older future Dante, why does he look the exact same age as DMC1 Dante? Why not older, more rugged, perhaps with a bit of facial hair growth, like Dante has started to in DMC4?
how many people do you see carrying a sword the size of a bloody car around with them,
Well, since there's no demons in the real world...
also I don't see any real people going about their every day lives in a trench coat.
Uh? I have. Maybe not bright red trenchcoats but yeah...
I mean come on Arkham said he WAS sparda when he unlocked his power
Eh? I'd like a quotation and cutscene reference there. Also on a related note I say we must accept both the butt-ugly horned demon and silver haired guy in purple suit as both being how Sparda looks.
To be honest I say my "Sparda name tag in the save game menu" argument is what settles this. And: Why does the picture change to one of demon-sparda in the save game menu of DMC1? Shouldn't it change to a depiction of the so-called, older Dante in purple if it is Dante? What the **** is A pciture of SPARDA doing there?!? Hmm??