The new difficulty modes will send casual players off into rage quit territory with their proverbial tails between their legs. Now as I mentioned before the only people who are truly going to appreciate most of these changes are the hardcore and highly skilled mega fans of the series. Also included are new higher difficulty modes, some new skins, some tweaks and balances from the previous release and most importantly the addition of Vergil’s Bloody Palace.
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In the DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition we see all these extra pieces of content packaged into a slick 1080p and 60fps graphical upgrade (yes for BOTH consoles). It was however, praised for having a fairly strong narrative and a unique noir/comic book presentation.
For the most part it was a carbon copy of what players had already done in the game’s main campaign, albeit with a different character and different weapons. In Vergil’s Downfall players were able to play as, well… Vergil, but the add-on ended up being criticized for not really adding much to the original game. A string of DLC followed its release which included new skins for Dante and his weapons, an item finder and orb collector, Dante’s Bloody Palace (101 waves of increasingly tougher enemies to fight through) and arguably its most popular piece of content, Vergil’s Downfall. Of course that didn’t make the game easy, it still took immense skill to string together SSS style combos. Developer Ninja Theory also made it more accessible than ever before (much to the chagrin of DmC purists) by introducing a simpler combo system that relied on trigger pushes and single button presses to string together attacks. DmC retained the frenetic gameplay of its predecessors but modernized the look and feel of the game.
In my books a good game is a good game regardless of the letters stamped on the box so it always struck me as a petty complaint. As minuses go, the biggest one seemed to be that despite the game being good it didn’t feel like a DmC game so some said it should have been nameed something different. Long-time fans were rightly skeptical at a completely revamped Dante but in the end the game was very well received by many fans and critics alike. When DmC: Devil May Cry was first released it breathed new life into a franchise that was undoubtedly losing a bit of steam.
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Feel free to check out our original review of DmC for the basics of the game *spoiler* IT’S REALLY GOOD. For the purposes of this review I’ll tackle what’s new rather than dissecting the whole game ad nauseum.
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More casual fans of the series (or those less skilled) will appreciate the extra shine but probably won’t notice much else in terms of change. A lot of tweaks have been made and new modes added but only the most hardcore of DmC fans will likely appreciate the new additions. Oh look, another ‘Definitive Edition’ to add to the pile! As has been the trend since the release of the current generation of consoles, Capcom has joined the ranks with their extra polished version of DmC: Devil May Cry.