I have a confession....I never played any DMC game till last year O_O... I remember when it came out, I had tried the demo for DMC1 and was all "OMG THIS GAME IS LIKE THE UBER SEX!!! LOOK AT THIS, I CAN BEAT ENEMIES INTO THE AIR THEN JUGGLE THEM WITH PURE !!!
But at the time i didnt own a ps2 so its not like i could play them. anyways im straying off topic.
Now i have played all four games and can say, that when not compared to the other games it really isnt that bad. running up walls is pretty fun and seeing dante be able to become completely unstoppable is pretty bad ass.
And who here is going to say that they don't like the "doesnt say much but can kick ur ass with a tea cup" anti hero, like Riddick ,Blade, or the Terminator? and to be honest i dont really want an answer to that.
all in all i guess the only reason most people rag on it is because it isn't like the other DMC games, Capcom (although not the same team) tried to make Dante into a hard ass, and to also make him more grown up. but this image of dante was ultimately reject by the majority of dmc fans.(key word here is majority) which is actually pretty funny considering that "Changes from the first game were influenced by surveys distributed by the development team, allowing them to patch any areas identified as weak by the people surveyed"
personally i like dante in all the other games because he is extremely cocky and funny. however I like dante in DMC2, perhaps even more so than the other games, because of just how dark they made him.
OK I'm redy to be crucified now for what i think. Send me hate mail and replies to the thread that say im a retard and that playing chicken with traffic is more fun than this game. LOL