You can use the modern world to inspire wonderful video games. Take your politics into your own original franchise. Sometimes I just want a dude who kills demons. It's definitely effective at stirring that pot, but it's a pot I'd rather not eat from. Capcom needed to aim towards a younger Western generation who consider themselves up-to-date on the news and world issues, and it used that to sell this new DmC game. I kid you not, when fighting the news anchor as a boss fight, he screams "We're going to do it live!"Īgain, "topical and stuff, bro" with the subtlety of a shotgun. Humans are unwilling to rise against rampant corruption because they are by being fattened off of unhealthy energy drinks while a puppet propaganda "news media" channel, not shy about its religious bias, pacifies them with subliminal messages. "Terrorist" belches from the mouths of every character that stumbles on screen. This game reeks of real world issues and delivers them with the subtlety of a shotgun.ĭemons control the world through debt and corrupt banks. Trust me, I forced myself through a fair share of painful cutscenes.Įverything about DmC Devil May Cry's story is just "juvenile." What kind of complaint is that coming from the fan of one of gaming's most childish trash talkers? There is a fine difference between "being juvenile while being silly" and "being juvenile while trying to be serious, cool, and mature entertainment for grown-ups." The original Devil May Cry falls in the former, knowing that it is just a fun video game and nothing more.ĭmC Devil May Cry falls into the latter, attempting a "topical and stuff, bro" spin on the demon slayer's universe. The sequel was a flop, the third one was too tough to get emotionally invested in Dante as a character, and the fourth game, well, Dante didn't star in that one, did he?Īfter realizing this, I tried to take on DmC Devil May Cry's plot with a clean slate, dissolving any inhibitions that I might have against this Western reboot of the popular Japanese series. The original remains one of my favorite video games of all time, but it has that constant world/ Resident Evil set design going for it that the other more linear action games do not. The truth is, I was not that big of a Devil May Cry fan. This new one is really… not all that bad. Would I like the new Dante compared to the old one? How much do I know or even like the old Dante. While blasting through DmC Devil May Cry for writing this review, I started thinking about how deep my fandom for the Devil May Cry franchise really goes. I think the company would have been better served sticking to its guns, but at the same time, given the atmosphere surrounding the company at the time, I think its nothing short of a marvel that DmC Devil May Cry turned out to be as decent as it did. Whether you agree with this direction is a matter of opinion. It was desperate to reinvent its biggest franchises to get new gamers involved. If you turn the situation inside out and really try to understand the situation the company was in, without its most talented developers and selling games to a market that didn't care, you really start to understand it had no other choice. Even beloved critical hits like Bayonetta proved to be a flop, sure-fire signs that the Western gaming industry was welcoming in a new generation who had mostly fallen out of love with Japanese video games.Ĭapcom takes a lot of heat for its outsourcing during this turbulent period, from me especially. Two, Japanese games just weren't selling after the boom of the AAA market.
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