DMC, and the idiocy of people on the internet. (not a full review)

I've played Devil May Cry since the beginning. And like many, I was pretty pissed when Ninja Theory first revealed the reboot they were working on. At first glance it looked like Dante had become some whiny emo bitch boy, out to fight the system. And initially I was with most of the nay sayers. But when it came down to it, I love this series, and I knew I was going to pick this game up one way or another. And honestly I was extremely pleasantly surprised by what I got. The combat has never looked better, (though it felt marginally better in DMC 3, which still stands as the flagship of the series) the dialogue is both well written and well acted by all parties involved, and most imporantly, Dante's character, while visually disparate from his source, has a very similar personality, he still tosses out one liners with wanton disregard for decency. As far as difficulty goes it's pretty much on par with 1, 2 and 4. None of which were challenging games, so it is a bit easy, but that's in keeping with the majority of the series.

Some Spoilers from here on out! Avoid this if you haven't played the game yet.

So I was pretty surprised when I poked my head online and looked at the player community response. Which is almost unanimously negative. And what gets me, while reading these peoples comments, is that they never played the game. For example, something that comes up a lot is people saying "the protagonist shoots a pregnant woman in the stomach and then the head". They neglect to realize that, A: Vergil, the one who did the shooting, is not the protagonist, and is generally painted as a man with very questionable moral fiber, and B: he shot a frigging demon that was carrying the spawn of a demonic demi-god. Not a random innocent woman with a tiny baby. So clearly these people didn't play the game, they watched a clip without any context and came to a misguided and silly conclusion.

Then there's the people who claim that the combat rating system has been simplified. A large number say that your rating depends only on doing damage and avoiding being hit. Again, this just isn't true. If you just sit there spamming the same attacks over and over again, your rating is going to suck. But beyond that, if you spam the same attack, your enemies will find a way around it and you'll get slapped around. The rating system is honestly identical to previous games. Just like always, you mix it up, keep the swords scythes axes stone fists and chakram things flying, and dance your way around the enemies attacks to keep your score climbing.

I haven't finished everything I want to do in DMC yet, I'll likely play through every difficulty again like I have with previous games so I won't post any official review yet. I just really wanted to put this out there. Because I don't want a group of whiners, who won't even give the game a chance, to poison this games image for people who might really enjoy it.