![]() ![]() That action is exquisite, thankfully, and more lavish than ever before. It's teased that Devil May Cry's women will have a starring role in the not-so-distant future, though. Nico's new to Devil May Cry 5, though like Lady and Trish she's confined to a supporting role. The focus here is on action, and on pushing it to new extremes, and so intent is Devil May Cry 5 on doing so it doesn't have much time for other embellishments. Maybe you see that as a slight, but I certainly don't intend it to be - PlayStation 2 games were awesome, and I admire Devil May Cry 5 for forgoing most mod cons to deliver a game that's unashamedly old school (save for the spectre of microtransactions, admittedly, though they're so slight that after my first playthrough I had to ask Capcom if they'd been removed entirely - they're still there, it turns out, as a shortcut to unlocking moves, but so generous is Devil May Cry 5's economy you've got to wonder why Capcom invited ill-will by keeping them in at all). After the Shoreditch edge of 2013 prequel DmC: Devil May Cry, this is a return to the more classically teenage boy concerns of old it's all long hair, leather jackets, motorbikes and demons and music that raaaaaaaaaaaThis is Devil May Cry as you remember it from its noughties pomp, a rediscovery and thorough retooling rather than a reinvention.Īnd so it feels and plays like a PlayStation 2 game. In full flow Devil May Cry 5 is a savage, spectacular action game, stylish to the extreme if not exactly fashionable. Availability: Out March 8th on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. ![]() It's an outrageously broad vocabulary of punishment that Devil May Cry 5 boasts. It's in the swagger of Dante - oh that sweet, sweet swagger - who brings along every trick he's learned in the series' long history alongside a few new ones. It's in the adolescent aggression that flows through the attacks of Nero, the character who was front and centre in the last numbered entry finally coming into his own here. It's in the blithe way rakish new character V holds a book of poetry and reads from it in the middle of battle. Style is everything, and Devil May Cry 5 has it in spades. Capcom returns to its trusted formula for something that plays like a outrageously pretty PS2 game - and that's a very good thing. ![]()
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