Dante returns with DMC3:SE, but this time with company

User Rating: 9 | Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition PS2
By N0Sweat | Review Date:
After DMC3: Dante's Awakening, CAPCOM followed with DMC3:SE. The changes? Improved sound and graphics, difficulty adjustments, and a new playable character, Vergil. The readers who played the first DMC3 will recognise this last name, as he played (and plays) a main role as the game goes on. As I've mentioned, the graphics have received some attention and are now improved (the original ones weren't that great), and so has the sound. Vergil's gameplay style is different from Dante's, although he didn't get any new levels for himself. Having different gameplay options raises the replay value, which duplicates, if you enjoy hack n' slashes. So what prevents this game from being better than the original? The difficulty adjustments. One of the pleasures (or frustrations, as you like) from DMC3 was the insane difficulty, which made you repeat levels until you memorized the boss patterns, and so on. In DMC3:SE, one more difficulty level has been added, however the first ones available are so much easier that the originals were that half the challenge is gone. And to make it worst, a gold orb revival system has been thrown in, which instead of reviving the player in the previous room, with respawned enemies, as before, revives the player in the exact spot where he died, again making things allot easier.
To finish a Turbo mode has been added, which raises the game speed, making it frenetic, however this feature wasn't inserted in the PAL version of the game, what is a shame. Overall this is a good game, and even with some bad decisions from the producers, manages to be as good as the original, and obligatory for the fans.

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