DmC: Devil May Cry

Es una franquicia la cual escuché y me llamó la atención y a día de hoy adquirido lo disfruto jugando.

It is a decent game but not a good DMC. The fights are fluid and especially in the middle of the game very enjoyable. Switching between your weapons to get that SSS ranking works really well and is satisfying. Until they introduce more and more enemies that completely block most of your attacks and the best move is to simply spam that one attack they are weak against. This completely breaks the flow of the game and is more annoying than difficult. And platforming is now a big part of the game with two different grappling hooks that either pull you in or the object you grapple. While this sounds interesting, it is just match the colour. You can either use the red one or the blue one based on the colour of the object. And this is still fine when it works but so many times, Dante simple does not grapple the object you want to grapple even though it is highlighted. So you often fall down, loose more or less HP completely unnecessarily and break the flow of the game. The aesthetics of the level with the concept of limbo is very interesting but the levels are very linear with many invisible walls, making finding secrets either trivial (go right instead of straight ahead at an intersection) or annoying to find because you have to jump/drop at a certain part of the level that would normally be blocked by an invisible wall. The story is also relatively weak and I am not a fan of the Dante character in the reboot. But what stood out the most to me was how easy the game is. Even on higher difficulties, you can simply restart from a checkpoint (with full life!!!) when you die. The only downside to that is that you get a slightly lower score at the end of a level. But if you do not care for that, there is no punishment for dying. I remember the old DMC games, where getting through a level with your limited HP was the challenge that took you several tries. And on your next playthrough you were proud of yourselves for not getting hit once. But this probably does not work on modern audiences. In the remake, I did not use an item (to heal) once. Because using an item also lowers your score and surviving a single encounter from full health is usually easy enough. I was hoping that this was different in NG+, but it is still the same. I am happy when I get the SSS rank for the level, but I could not bother to restart a level just because I died once. Especially when you sometimes die because of the platforming (see above). This might be fine for people trying to get all the achievements, but I have other games to play. What also bothered me is that you cannot fully clear a level on your first playthrough because you need abilities you only get later in the game. This would be fine on itself, if the game would not punish you at the end of the level with a bad score for not finding all the secrets, even though you literally could not do so. You also only learn later that a new ability would have allowed you to easily enter a secret earlier. Especially with that in mind, why would I care about a score reduction for dying when I cannot get a good score anyway? They somehow tried to recreate the feeling of a difficult DMC game but completely missed the point. Bosses are mostly also extremely boring, reusing that “big enemy where you need to dodge their punches and then attack their hands for 10 s while they keep them still” concept. Even the final boss has a very limited move set where you just need to bait and dodge his one big attack and keep punching him over and over again.