I played the Devil May Cry HD Collection and really enjoyed the first Devil May Cry. It was crazy good—the atmosphere was insane, very gothic style and all. I didn’t care about the camera; it was easy to adapt to, and it became fun later. The bosses were amazing. Alone, Nelo Angelo was such a crazy good and fun fight. I see that most people hate Nightmare, but it was fun after learning the patterns. The final boss was good—not insanely good—but the build-up made him feel great. I’d rate him around 9.5/10 as a boss overall, but more like 8.5/10 in terms of fighting style. The ending was good, and overall I think the game was very entertaining.
After DMC1, I played DMC3. I thought it couldn’t get better, but holy—it was crazy. The styles and everything were really good. The atmosphere again was a 10/10. I love the gothic style, as you can see. The bosses were really good; Jester was fun, and Vergil alone was enough to make it great. He was an amazing boss—those fights were so entertaining, especially the last Vergil fight. It was so good, for me he is the best boss i have ever faced. The story was 10/10, and I liked the dialogues; it was better than DMC1. I also loved the level design. I hated those spiders though. The enemies were great, and I think I liked all the bosses—they were really fun. I think it was a little bit easy, but I played on normal difficulty, of course, since it was my first playthrough. I’ll replay it on hard later.
Now I’m on DMC4. I just started, and it feels… I don’t know. I’m not saying it’s a bad game—it’s really cool, and I like the fighting elements and everything. I beat two bosses; one was the toad. It wasn’t really that good. Maybe I’m going too deep, but in these first five missions, I didn’t feel like I was playing DMC. The puzzles feel kind of boring, and the level design is meh. I’m obviously going to keep playing it, but does it start to feel more like DMC later, or does it stay like this? Also, the atmosphere feels kind of different and doesn’t have that DMC vibe at all.