It's been a while since I played the first two Devil May Cry games,
so I figured now was a good time to finish off the trilogy (which is now up to
five games anyway) by playing Devil May Cry 3. A quick recap- you play
as Dante, a cocky human/demon hybrid who hunts demons for a living by stringing
together sweet combos with his sword and guns. The first game was pretty good,
and the second game wasn't any good. The trilogy ends on a high note though, as
my experience with Devil May Cry 3 was the most fun of all. And yet it
goes against all the laws of backlogging, the ones that make me just pick easy
mode every time I start into a game that I'm not that interested in. I played
the first two Devil May Cry games on easy and breezed through them in a
couple days; I finally commited to playing Devil May Cry 3 on normal just
to at least get some sense of how the game is really meant to be played. And
while I wasn't in love with it, I liked it a whole lot more than either of the
two first games. Was that a success on this specific game's part? Or should I
just have upped the difficulty on everything a while ago? I suppose the game's
biggest strength was throwing tons of boss fights in; there's one at the end of
almost every one of Devil May Cry 3's twenty levels, each unique,
requiring different weapons and strategies and multiple restarts. It was also nice to see Dante get his asshole swagger back after a mostly boring Devil
May Cry 2- watching him get annoyed with super-powerful demons, make
sarcastic remarks, and do ridiculous fighting stunts just because he can makes
watching all the cutscenes he's in a must. Like the time he destroys the laws
of physics to use his motorcycle as a shield, or his little friendly fight/handshakewith his own doppleganger, or even the time he converts a boss into a guitarand jumps up on stage wailing on it to an imaginary crowd. The games are fun,
but I think just watching Dante act crazy is the best part of this series.
In 2015 I definitely intend to play more PS2 games, and Devil may Cry is near the front of that list. Should I play it on easy or normal? Like you, I'm all about the path of least resistance, but if it's a short enough game I can swing a few extra deaths.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pretty short game- howlongtobeat lists it at 6.5 hours, around half the length of Devil May Cry 3, so I say just go for it on normal. It doesn't feel far off from the God of War series, although I liked that trilogy more than any of the DMC's. Even if you don't like it, you'll at least get the real experience that I think I missed. The difference in difficulties was really noticeable in the boss fights, where in the first two games I never really needed to use any sort of strategy or play defensively and I just kinda brute forced my way through them.
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