Share.The finest version of DMC combat brings me to tears of joy.ByThe first Devil May Cry sparked my love of action games in general, but as the series has gone on it’s kept that place in my heart because they aren’t just about killing every enemy in a room. They’re about how you killed every enemy in a room, expressing yourself in an almost artistic and highly technical dance of swords, guns, and lots of jump cancels.
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Is the new pinnacle of this particular subset of the genre, thanks to a perfectly paced campaign that mixes in three completely different playstyles, each of which containing enough depth to carry a game of their own; a fun and satisfying story; and quite simply one of the best combat systems you’ll find in video games.Devil May Cry 5’s story is somewhat unconventional in that it starts with events that would normally feel like the climax: you’re thrown right into a fight you’re meant to lose. After Dante stays behind to let Nero and a new character named V escape from a super-powered demon king named Urizen, the story jumps around a time period of a couple of months, rotating through perspectives as it tells the present-day story of Dante, Nero, and V, while also explaining the circumstances that led to Urizen’s rise to power and V’s quest to take him down. There’s a great air of mystery to the unknown nature of both Urizen and V. Like Nero, I was never sure if I could trust V and found myself formulating theory after theory about his identity and motives with every new morsel of information that was fed to me. By the end of its 10 to 12 hours I still had some questions left over, but overall the plot kept me hooked all the way through with satisfying revelations, a few answers that fill in some long-standing series plot holes, and of course, the off-the-wall action that only Devil May Cry can deliver.Devil May Cry 5’s combat is absolutely sublime.On the surface, it’s a very simple system: There’s one button for melee attacks, one for ranged attacks, and one for your Devil Breaker, style technique, or cane attack, depending on which character you’re using. If that’s as deep as you want to go, you can absolutely get through the campaign on normal difficulty just fine with nothing more.
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There’s even an “auto-assist” mode that automatically performs cool and flashy combos by just mashing the attack button, letting even casual players feel what it’s like to play at a higher technical level. “The beauty of DMC 5’s combat is in the depth, creative freedom, and variety.But the beauty of Devil May Cry 5’s combat is in the depth, creative freedom, and variety its three sets of tools offer. If you’re playing as Nero, those tools are your revvable Red Queen sword, chargeable Blue Rose handgun, a grapple that can pull enemies towards you, and an ever-growing arsenal of Devil Breakers, which are disposable mechanical arms that each provide Nero with new abilities and utility. My favorite, Punchline, shoots out an arm that homes in on an enemy and keeps them in place with quick rocket punches. But the real fun starts when you hold down the Devil Breaker button while Punchline is out, allowing you to jump on top of it and ride it like a hoverboard, knocking enemies up into the air with flips, 360s, and other sick stunts. Dante’s gameplay is by far the most familiar because he plays almost exactly the same as his counterpart, which is to say that he’s essentially a Swiss army knife.
He can swap between four distinct styles (Trickster, Royal Guard, Gunslinger, and Swordmaster) four, and four ranged weapons, all on the fly. His arsenal is a fantastic mix of old and new, with the old weapons kept fresh thanks to a number of new tweaks and techniques, and the new weapons adding new layers to Dante’s combat that he’s never had before. He even has a motorcycle that he can crash into enemies with and then transform into two slow but heavy-hitting buzzsaw swords and back again, all in the space of a single combo. “V plays completely unlike any character in any Devil May Cry game.And then finally there’s V, who plays completely unlike any character in any Devil May Cry game due to the fact that he barely does any of the fighting himself. Instead, he summons three familiars to do battle for him: There’s Shadow, a black cat that can morph into various blades and creatures; Griffon, a bird that can fire a variety of electrical blasts from a distance; and Nightmare, a gargantuan beast that can only be summoned when V builds up his Devil Trigger meter.
Nightmare fights completely autonomously, and it can be very extremely satisfying to watch him emerge through a wall or rain down from the sky and just wreck a whole crowd of enemies.Your familiars can’t actually kill anything, though, so V has to teleport around and deliver the finishing blow with his cane once an enemy has been primed for the kill. That leads to some very cool kill sequences where V just blinks from enemy to enemy, wiping them out one by one while your familiars carry on the fight in the background.Using V effectively has a pretty steep learning curve, even by Devil May Cry standards, due to the fact that you don’t actually have any directional control over Shadow or Griffon. Getting them to attack a specific enemy can be a challenge, and trying to keep track of where they are in relation to the enemy can also be tricky. However, you can use some of your Devil Trigger meter to have them autonomously attack, allowing you to focus on dodging. Or, if you feel you have a few moments of safety you could read a book and regain some of that meter. Or just play some violin to taunt them.
Even so, V’s missions are the weakest of the trio, mainly because his movement feels so much more limited compared to Dante and Nero. But that’s not to say that they’re bad by any stretch. Once you get a couple of upgrades for Shadow and Griffon under your belt and get used to the flow of combat, V’s unique gameplay becomes quite fun, and it’s used sparingly enough to never outstay its welcome. Microtransaction ReactionThere are eight Devil Breakers in the base game for Nero to equip, but there are also four more that are sold separately as DLC (and included in the $70 Deluxe Edition).