@sarshelyam: See, that's not exactly true. Ninja Gaiden 3 was bashed for things like changes to combat, Ryu removing his mask, poor story choices, a streamlined game. Those things are all present in DmC. Combat was made more accessible, that's a fact you can read about in any review. We know reviewers like easy games because easy games are always scored well and games like Dark Souls have all kinds of "it's too hard" comments. One video review even said that you can make it through relatively easily by button mashing, though you won't get as many points for it. Reviews against Ninja Gaiden 3 cited that it made concessions for the larger audience, and that's exactly what DmC did. You'll see in plenty of opinions and reviews that people thought DMC's combat was "too hard" to get into. So why is it ok for NG to have a hard combat system then get blasted for changing it, and DmC gets a pass for the same thing?

The story of DmC is, even at the best you could say about it, lacklustre and boring. We all know what the ending is like, and it pretty much is just a rewritten Enslaved plot. NG3's story was criticized, again, for being too streamlined and having a poor ending. We see that DmC doesn't have an original story, has a bad ending, and yet the game gets praise but NG3 doesn't.

The characters. Well in NG3 the biggest problem people had was when Ryu removed the mask. They saw it as an afront to the very basic aspect of Ninja Gaiden and the game was slammed for that. But it's ok to make Dante ugly, boorish, and a borderline slobby meth head? Why?

So we have two games that took the "larger audience approach." One game got slammed for making combat easier, the story more streamlined, and changing aspects of the main character. The other game, which did the exact same thing, is getting praise for that. I'm at a loss when it comes to that. Seriously.

@VileAndVicious: Umm, in DmC, aren't the enemy A.I.'s attack animations so slow that you can walk to the side to dodge them? Videos on youtube showed (before they were flagged) players barely trying against bosses and not getting hit once. So, in a sense, you have to try to die.

umm in NG3...couldn't you like not die? Thought I read or saw a YouTube video about the main character auto dodging or something

lol I find that a little hard to believe but I wonder what difficulty setting they were playing on. Even in the demo enemies in SOS were fairly aggressive not nearly as aggressive as DMC3 mind you but you certainly couldn't just stand in one place

I never said you could stand in one place. I said that the enemies in DmC have ridiculously slow attack animations and it's been noted that the only real difference between, say, human difficulty and SoS difficulty is that the A.I. finally performs their attacks at a more normal speed. The A.I. in DmC is pretty terrible and that would be in keeping with the "accessible" style of DmC.