Devil May Cry 4
With a flock of defiantly silver hair, blood red garments and gun and sword in tow, the Devil May Cry 4 (DMC4) hero approaches a ragtag bunch of demons, a lurid look in his eyes. In a few short moments, all the demons drop dead. Yet, their demise is just a by-product of his true intentions. The demons' bodies are for carving up with his stylish array of moves, to gain favour with the game's god. Imagine an invisible Randy Jackson (the American Idol judge) eagerly informing players how spectacular our hero is doing with comments like "brutal", "atomic" and, eventually, "smokin' sick style!" Jesting aside, the "comments" are acutally letter grades that DMC4 progressively doles out to encourage players to mix up their attacks. What moves you get to mix up the action with will depend on which of the two silver-haired co-stars you control at the time - DMC4 newcomer Nero or Dante, the series' mainstay. You start with Nero, an Anakin Skywalker to Dante's Obi-Wan Kenobi, designed to help new players get acclimatised with DMC's combo-based gameplay. For that purpose, Nero is bestowed the Devil Bringer, a demonic right arm that can pull in faraway enemies. DMC veterans might scoff at Nero's ease of play, but will eventually fall in love with him once they unlock his Max Act skill, which lets skilled players power up their attacks by depressing the left trigger the exact instance Nero swings his blade. Later in the game, you play Dante. He lacks the Devil Bringer or Max Act skill but compensates by offering five times as many moves as Nero. To play Dante expertly, you have to be quick at conjuring up yet-unused combat moves, and be even quicker on your fingers - some of Dante's moves require multiple button presses. So different are their playing styles, and so fun the combat, that I didn't find fighting certain bosses three times in the game a chore. What I did find tedious was the level exploration and puzzle aspects. For instance, there were times when the game would start you off in the middle of a massive area without telling you where to go, or if you were heading in the wrong direction. It made my first time at the game unnecessarily frustrating. Nonetheless, the addictive combat compelled me to go at it on a more difficult setting immediately after my first play-through, and this is something I rarely do for other games. Why, at this rate, I might not stop until, indeed, the Devil himself shows up and breaks into tears.
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Hack and Slash
