[quote=@lavulman] Okay. I'm gonna vent. [hider=Distorted Rant Impact] I can't believe that they try to pass off their character designs as better than the classic DMC when Donte looks like some lumpy crackhead with some shitty haircut that even the darkest recesses of tumblr wouldn't touch and they gave Vergil an edgy Anonymous mask and a fucking fedora (which was so ridiculously stupid that someone's brain started working and they apparently removed it in the re release by the way) and even then they have Donte looking more like the original by the end of the game anyways, so it's not like they can even stick to their position, not to mention how all the achievement names are shoehorned in quotes from the older games. And remember how they were going on about how the writing in that thing would be "Shakespearean" and it would change the way people saw video games as a medium and then it just turned out to be a shitty ripoff of They Live? And Mundus was just some shitty business man whose idea of an epic final form was to stick a bunch of fucking garbage on himself? And they had that shit where enemies were a certain color and they were invincible unless you hit them with a certain weapon because fuck that shit from the older games where you could use whatever weapon you wanted to create your own combos. Remember how Dante and Vergil originally had a deep rivalry that went down to their core ideologies that tied into the main theme of the series that culminated in this awesome duel on the edge of the underworld and I guess the wuboot's answer to that is for Vergil to be like "oh what if we ruled all the humans" at the very end of the game and then Donte just tries to kill him I guess because it's impossible to talk him out of such a well-thought out stance. And I guess they aren't even half-human anymore because fuck relateable protagonists and that awesome message from the old games about how compassion and humanity was what really made you strong. And like instead of being some sick Demon Jesus like in the old games Sparda is just some dumb pleb with horns in this one I guess. And also the heroes are so nice that they decided to kill a pregnant woman and then taunt the villain about it and unleash demons onto the world to just sort of kill everyone and ruin everything everywhere which was way worse than anything Mundus ever did in that game. And in favor of a decent color palette they just vomit bloom and blue and orange at you like some shitty movie cover because god forbid someone come up with an interesting design. Like remember Nightmare from DMC1 and how it was like the best slime in any video game ever? and instead of any of the cool and creative Hells we got in the first and third game we just get some dumb alternate dimension shit because that cliche hasn't been driven far enough in the ground yet. Like god damn whose idea was it to hand this series off to people who fucking hated it and the fans and how did they expect this pile of trash to sell well at all? [/hider] I miss the old days when Nero was all the fandom had to bitch about. And even then I liked him. [/quote] IT PISSES ME OFF, THAT THEY RIPPED OFF CULT CLASSIC THEY LIVE AND PASSED IT OFF AS FUCKING. SHAKESPEAREAN! Like, DMC has its questionable moments sure ("your dark soul with LIiIiIiIghhht") but the reboot manages to have all that and more in just one game, it's incredible. And they try pass off the old games as a schlockfest even though Vergil was driven mad by the death of his mother and the desire to be strong enough to never fail like that again ("Might controls everything!") and instead he just became the standard "oh it's fake gray and gray morality like Dragon Age II in which basically the guy in control wants control and the guy wanting freedom wants freedom so he can have control" it's pseudo intellectual garbage. and the fact they taunt the old games yet still revel in them anyway is just fucking laughable, like you said the character designs, bosses and everything else is really too bland to be anything. Kat is pretty much a paper cut out for the majority of the game. I kinda liked the Bill 'O Reily fight but it was not worth destroying the entire franchise over. (Nero is cool, again Dante has his dumb moments so I give Nero a pass. I love his Blue Rose and his demon hand, love him)