Now THIS is what i thought a DMC game would be.
First let me start with a quick summary of DMC1. Wow. An amazing game that has easily crept into my all time favourites. I just never thought the DMC series was like this. Its pretty dark in atmosphere, terrific music, light but great exploration and strong difficulty. Coupled with Dantes personality, the experience all comes together as one of gamings great and i think its a shame i let it pass me for so long. I leave with one line
"I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight" Or something to that degree :lol:
On to DMC2
I really dont think its a bad game, or as bad as people say it is. Looking at it as a stand alone piece, i guess it gives hack and slash fans their generic fix. However looking at it as the sequal to DMC1, its absoloute garbage and i can see why people felt so betrayed. Particularly Kamiya if what i read is true.
The gameplay is hard to judge because whilst i think its an improvement overall, its handled worse than the first. The first game had you fighting sparesly and you were mainly exploring castles or falling in traps. The second game puts you in arena after arena of endless spawning enemies and really, the best solution to each battle is to button mash. Which leads me on to my next point. EVERY single fight can be one by using the guns. Removes any difficulty whatsoever and i literally stood back and kept mashing square against the final boss and beat him under 2 mins.
The control layouts are what i thought DMC1 was going to be like. So with the controls i wanted in hand, i funnily enough kept playing the game like DMC1, hitting wrong buttons and making mistakes.
Graphically, i dont know what happened but Capcom really dropped the ball. Everything looked so.....red, dull and muddy. No variety in the environment. Character models looked like they had more polygons but meh, cant save an ugly looking game. I dont know what happened to Dante, he looks so old and sounds like a different person, definately not the Dante i had grown accustomed to. Oh and the musics garbage too.
I dont even know/care what the story was about. Something about a demon, a girls redemption.........i dunno.
The game starts of ok but gradually gets worser till the second disk. 70% of it consits of water levels which has the worst controls every known to man. I would have quit right then but the games pretty short and i finished disc 2 in 1:10 mins (overall 3:00).
Overall, i reccommend you play it since it can be bought used around £0.70, but dont expect a good DMC1 sequal. I just hope the other 2 games lead off from DMC1 and not the 2nd. The third should arrive this Monday, I couldnt afford the special edi. so i went with standard. Heard its brutal but im a Demons Souls conquerer 8)
What i did love about it is how the combat is progressively getting closer to Bayonetta (my first DMC-ish game). I expect 3 to take that even further.