All I can say is that I'm interested in what Capcom and NT are cooking up. If the game is good, that's great news. If it's bad, capcom and NT have dropped the ball and the bridging of western and eastern game development will be brought to near extinction.

IT's just weird to me that people keep bringing things up about the old games and how it DmC is bad because it differs. That's the point of DmC to me, to separate itself from older titles.

That said, the one area where I feel fan critique is valid to compare it to the old titles is combat. The combat isn't changing to much so I feel Fan push back against that is reasonable in a sense. But at the same time, we don't know how that pans out for the entire game. So that is a bit premature as well. But still a valid concern given the demo isn't as fleshed out as all these DMC3/4 videos people are comparing.

Very mature point of view. You have earned my respect, sir.

Being a reboot doesn't exempt it from the fact that it strays too much from the original material. If they really wanted to try something different they could have made this into a new IP and redesigned the combat system from the ground up to fit the Unreal engine. This game is trying to be two different games at once and it just ends up being a product that fails to be do either particularly well in my eyes. Maybe pretty colors, and morphing environments makes people excited for this game, but I just don't see what the hype is about. Yeah there is some depth with this game just like every other game, but the way combat system is designed I just don't feel encouraged to explore and go deeper. I don't feel motivated to do SS rank runs in this game. The series went from being a stylish Japanese action game to whatever the hell it is now. That's more than just making it more accessible or not catering to the hardcore fans, that's changing everything about it that made it special. People can act like this is just a more accessible version of DMC because it looks that way on the surface, but it's not.

Maybe I'm just a square and can't get with the times.

@ j-killer

Actually being a reboot does exempt it from everything. They still have pretty much the same core elements and story. Yes I know Dante didn't have an angel mom but seriously it's a small detail. Look at tomb raider. That's being rebooted but the only thing that's really the same is the fact that she is an adventurer. It's grounded in reality and doesn't have t-Rex's in it so should we condemn that? It's fine if you can't get behind the game people respect that it's just close minded comments that people get annoyed with.

Honestly, even if the creator hadn't left the original DMC series ended before it began. They ended the series with Dante sacrificing himself in 2. Everything afterwards was doomed to be prequels and side games. Sure, they could have made a DMC 5, but what would that have entailed? Finding out who Nero really is, and how he's connected to Dante and Virgil? Sorry, but that's not enough to create an entire game around and still keep the fans happy. You'd end up with hours of Nero gameplay and a half-story for Dante to be involved in just to appease the cry-hards. You could have also gone the route of Kingdom Hearts and made about a million sidegames with inconsequential plotlines. I doubt those would be well received too. What I mean to point out is that the series was stagnant. It was reboot or let rot. I wasn't crazy about the first incarnation of the rebooted Dante. But I'm ecstatic with the model for Dante now. Yeah, they caved to the white-haired traditional Dante, and I think by the end of the game he'll have white hair anyway. But I kinda figured that would happen when Virgil was revealed and already had white hair.