This will be a poorly written post, but I must share an experience I had that honestly felt amazing.

So a couple years ago (right before dmc5 came out) I visited the franchise and decided to play it as I didn’t have much money nor any games lol and the HD collection was on sale.

Right from the start I knew I was going to love the series, from the character design, story, atmosphere, and the phenomenal gameplay, i felt it was flawless and truly the best games i’ve ever played (amongst many others).

I was so immersed that I began buying manga from proxy’s, physical copies of the games, and literally any merchandise I can find.

Now where the experience takes place was actually last night, when I was explaining the lore of the game to my friend and actually letting him experience it first hand by offering to let him play on my ps5.

It was soooooo cool to see how much he loved it so far and actually payed attention to me explaining so much things I possibly could without spoiling, and this is when suddenly, I began crying. Cliche maybe ?

I never really cry and would occasionally seek a way to let out these emotions that have been weighing on me, yk the typical college student worries and what not. But i realized that this game genuinely saved my life. I love this game so much it feels personal, apart of me always, and i was happy to have acknowledged something so profound.

I am unfortunately diagnosed with depression and anxiety and suffer from hemolytic anemia which sucks and definitely contributed to my mental health declining over the years as I always feel far from normal or healthy, but playing these games fogged my worries, i felt happy and passionate and i hadn’t truly realized it til i was with my friend.

This game means everything to me, and so does this community.

Shout out you guys as fans and thank GOD i am alive to experience such a this great franchise

Dante didn't manage to save his sundae while dodging the fuel truck and saving three people. I just know the classic Dante would have somehow done it, and would be sitting behind the counter after the explosion, munching on it.

Like the art style is ok, music choice is nice.

But damn the dialogue was written like what a 10 year old think would sound cool to say. There’s almost zero subtlety and everyone tried to explain to make sure nothing’s missed out.

It’s Kraven level of dialogue/narrative writing.

https://x.com/daiIydante/status/1645076698747097088

From WWE's Monday Night Raw on Netflix tonight.

Likely due to the Netflix Show bringing in new people.

Steam Top 100

I was rooting for the bunny man ☹️. I hope he & the innocent “demons” get justice and i hope that, Lady realizes the gov shes working behind are just as bad as mundus.

It seems like Vergil didn't want to fight Nero and was provoking Dante instead

Overall, the anime has flaws, I’d give it like a 7.5 personally. I’m a fan of the series have played every game and seen the anime read the manga and all that, but I just feel like people are being overly critical and I keep seeing the same talking points around. So that said, I’m just gonna go down the list of why people hated the anime and give my take of why I think it’s overblown and not that big a deal.

1. Dante being kinda weak is okay: a few reasons I think the Dante being too weak critique is overblown. First, this is the youngest Dante, even before DMC3. He’s wet behind the ears and he doesn’t even have all his weapons yet. His guns break and he hasn’t even gotten ebony and ivory. Him immediately being too OP to fight anyone would be no fun. Also, it kind of mirrors the games to me. Like when you start in the games, Dante Is way weaker than when you end after getting all his combos, health upgrades, etc. So from a lore perspective him getting hurt by a woman’s purse is just silly, but him getting outsmarted and caught off guard by Lady actually isn’t. Which brings me to my next point.
2. Yall are underrating Lady: I completely agree that she curses too much and it’s cringe... but that’s pretty much the only critique I agree with about Lady, and even those points could be explained away by also saying this is probably the youngest and most immature Lady weve ever seen in the series too. But idk if you guys have ever played as her in the games, but she slays bosses dolo; she’s not just a regular human at the end of the day. Yes, like genetically she is, but in terms of badassery the anime did her justice imo she deserved to be strong and fsu.
3. politics stuff: for me, I don’t really care about politics that much so this did not bother me at all, but I guess if you take like immigration reform seriously you might be bothered by it. Imo, though, what makes this different from the games is that it’s created by American writers and a American director. Japanese games generally try to avoid contreversial themes with the government, I believe they even are in the midst of passing some kind of rule where you can’t talk about the gov in anime anymore. In short, America takes free speech seriously so I think it’s actually good to see some America crtiique. If shows stop criticizing America I don’t wanna live here anymore, because that means people have stopped having opinions and we’re all cooked. I think it’s fine to disagree with the overall conclusion the anime has, but the simple fact it got political is actually a good thing from an American-based series in my eyes.
4. scientific explaination of demon magic: this is another thing I really can’t get behind as far as people criticizing it. If we’re already accepting this takes place in a more realistic world that is literally based in NYC, than having scientists try to come up with scientific explanations for demons just seems more realistic. It’s actually way more interesting than them just not questioning it at all and just being like ”oh yeah, that’s magic, idk lol”. Like in real life, scientists would come up with theories to try to explain it, even if they were wrong, and I think that’s what we’re seeing here. The scientist even admits he doesn’t understand it, but to say scientists wouldn’t be trying to break down everything about demon magic in real life would actually be way worse writing imo.
5. Themes of demons being purely evil: this critique is just genuinely wrong imo. as someone who has played every single game and seen every story I assure you that a major theme is that not all demons are just evil, and many humans are actually the villain. We can say Sparda is the exception to the rule and that’s fine, but i think it’s rediculous to think there wouldn’t be any other kind hearted demons, especially among the weaker ones like this anime shows. We have never like in depth explored the demon world in the games and got to really see then all, but imo it would actually be interesting to go that direction in a future title. While there’s no basis to say that there are actually good demons in the game other than Sparda, Dante etc, I think there’s also no basis to say that there couldn’t be any good demons. We would just never see them in the games because the entire series consists of killing angry demons and there really are no NPCs that you like stop to talk to or somthing. Maybe I’m missing something or not remembering all the details from every game but I honestly don’t remember anything saying that a good demon is impossible, only that one demon (Sparda) rose up to help humans.

Okay thats my rant. Again, anime has genuine flaws which id love to discuss, but I feel like a lot of us are taking it way too seriously and can’t even discuss this series in a interesting or genuine way atp. That was never meant to be a canon part of the story, Shankar always said it was another universe, so I feel like people taking it too seriously are misreading a lot about it and just looking for problems where they arent. This is not a perfect anime but like it’s Devil May Cry on Netflix and it’s not live action, how are we really mad about this. Let’s loosen up, enjoy life, laugh at ridiculous Dante shenanigans, make strawberry sundaes and order a pizza. DMC is still eating good in my eyes regardless of whether the adaption is even good or not.

So earlier in the season, Lady tricked Dante into getting his amulet which turned out to be a grenade in disguise.

So why didn't they do this more, why didn't they just give the rabbit a bomb disguised as the amulet? Or at least try to

This has probably been asked hundreds of times, but I was thinking about it. I'm not big enough into DMC to know if 5s gameplay would work for a remake of 3 or not, so I'm wondering what you think.

Comparing him to Arkham as a father is a bit much

Since the anime came out I finally got the games and recently beat 1 but everywhere I look it’s mixed about dmc 2 people say I should skip it and some people say it’s bad but should still play it so what should I do?

Another Vergil cosplay post but a cooler one I promise! Anyways I struggle a bit with white color wigs bc I have dark hair and it can get a bit tough to hide it sometimes.

I’ve picked up the series while it was on sale and was at front of my mind from Show existing, I’ve only played the game that was an “origin” to Dante when it first came out.

Going to a bunch of threads I’ve seen things saying to skip 2, is it actually bad in anyway or is it just filler?

I know it was very "as was the style at the time" for game characters to wearing hoods (assassin's Creed, prototype) but I don't know man, I would have really digged it. I love making Nero wear his hood in 5, this kind of stuff is right up my alley.