Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

  Gamers Will Cry
Cut, shot, and destroyed Devils by Gamer Jay

The control scheme, at first, didn’t seem so responsive but that was probably due to the fact that I didn’t realize how to use the controls properly. Once you get used to the controls, you’ll be swinging your sword, shooting your gun and turning into a Devil with ease as you knock down hordes of enemies. If that was so easily said, yes you could if you had perfect practice and knew your way around this game, I managed to defeat enemy after enemy for a while, yet when someone blocks my attacks the
control seemed to freeze up, especially in the moments when I had the Trickster setting, which I will explain about later, allowing me to dodge the attack, leaving me in a frozen state, button still not responding till mid attack from him, magically working, like a character in an RPG who seems to vanish at the beginning of a big battle and magically comes back ready to fight a second
after the big boss is dead. Adding to the hard use of the controls, the legendary Capcom camera is in full affect, getting stuck in places it shouldn’t be, making some moves rather hard to pull off. To struggle even more, some attacks seemed to be blocked no matter what, as if no matter what move I pull, jump behind and attack, frontal attack or shooting attack, nothing works until
they start to attack you, seems like an unfair advantage to me. These guys are devils or demon like offspring of devils, that’s already more of an advantage than I have, I, not Dante, I’m just a simple human, even for a gamer my thumb and hand muscles have their bending points. Aside from bloody fingers, there
has been something new added, apart from the last games, Capcom introduces style modes, giving you a choice of style to fight with, in reference to the main couple forums are Trickster, the one mentioned before that allows you to dodge attacks, well some of the time, Gunslinger, which allows a dual use for
you weapon, weather it be juggling a shotgun from one hand to another, under you arms and around your back while shooting it, or with the bigger guns, just an added sound or grunt with the same shot as normally, Royal guard, the mode that allows you to block enemies attacks while taking less damage and able to
decide what you want to while not take all the damage of a full burst, yet it does break easy on the big bosses so it’s rendered useless in some fights, and finally Swordmaster, which allows some fancy sword work and multiplies the attack power. These moves are able to level up, three levels max, making each one look cooler as well as give you a bigger arsenal of moves to dish out. Adding to the mayhem, later on you get two new modes not very useful but cool when the times right, Doppelganger, which allows a clone of you in Devil Trigger mode to
help you fight for a short period of times, and Quicksilver, which slows down time for your enemies like a bad matrix system without the cool flips, but these can’t be leveled up, it sad to say the ones that could be more useful if they were leveled up, adding on the ability to do so much more with it, they choose not to. They had open ended ability on these modes but they stopped
short of the full potential the could of reached, lets just hope they can fix that in DMC

The weapons were a good selection, including a few the fans of the series would remember from the first, from powerful gauntlets to dual welding swords with the power of fire and wind, and even a magical purple electric guitar that controls bats, yes you heard me, a guitar that controls bats the with the more guitar solos you can do. In my opinion, freakin sweet, guitars and bats the two coolest things finally come together as one, powerful weapon. The choices were good and made for some decent combos. The guns however were not exactly original, the one that seems to be original seems to lack in the power area, you would think a
mythical gun of the gods would be more useful and the blast wouldn’t be pink. The mixture of gun and sword action, known by most of the DMC fans as the main focus of battle, seems to stay true to the saga, allowing for a powerful string of moves, making things stylish or Showtime, making the best level of combos.

The story, I hate to say, seems to insist upon it self in some areas, yes we know this is a prequel but do you need to point it out at every turn, a sentence from the first game, or making reference to something from the original games, even going so far as to try to make true what the original games had said before, just trying to prove that Dante and Vergil were once at war or pointing out that Dante once used certain weapons and fought certain enemies before their “first” encounter in DMC 1. Plain and simple, it tried to hard to prove it was a prequel. In most words, easy sum it up before I “officially” sum it up, this game is really for bastards because it’s a bastard game, as said by famous game reviewers Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, which I
here by endorse due to the fact that I am technically a bastard, I happen to know another bastard when I see one and this game and Dante in general is a bastard. Sometimes good and sometimes bad.