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GameLog started on: Friday 30 November, 2012

Dmc: Devil May Cry demo review I have beaten the demo of the upcoming Devil May Cry game today. Believe me, I am not a real fan of the Devil May Cry series but I like hack and slash games in general. It includes two missions: Under Watch, which takes place in the heart of Limbo city, and Secret Ingredient, which is a boss battle against the very old Succubus demon. The game has three difficulty settings to choose from and if you finished the demo on the hardest difficulty setting, which is nephilim, then you can do the levels on the Son of Sparda mode. Dante, the protagonist, is equipped with his Rebellion sword, His Ebony, Ivory hand guns, his demonic axe, the Arbiter and the angelic scythe Osiris. I have done the Under Watch mission and it was pretty good that the city is expansive and I get to take out various types of demons. Dante can perform combos by attacking with his sword and shooting with two pistols. He can collect various types of souls which can be used to recover help and purchase items. For example, I used the gold orb whenever I died during this level and during the boss fights. I use triangle and r2 to take out the demons more effectively with a more powerful sword. This allows for me to be in Angel mode, in which Dante’s sword attacks change to the Osiris, a speedy scythe type weapon. Triangle gives a heavy attack and circle is to shoot. These controls have been the same for other games as well. There are new controls I have used in the game, such as mashing x two times and hitting L2 makes me jump farther distances. While a little blocky, everything oozes with a really good urban style without taking it too far from its demonic roots. Spirits come in and out as Dante runs across the city and the sickening cameras and other hellish creatures add a nice touch. The city feels alive, like an ever changing being in itself. As for the story, the game starts with Dante recovering from a hangover when he is attacked by one of the demons. He learns that he is in Limbo City, a sullen city that appears serene or calm at first, but transforms into an antithesis of itself with demons and other hellish creatures who attempt to kill him whenever he is seen by the demons. After encountering a demon, Dante meets a girl who sends him to meet the leader of “The Order,” an organization labeled by the media and the press as terrorist. The Order is fighting against the demons of Limbo and the leader, Vergil, expects Dante to join them. During the game, he is taunted and stalked by the demon Mundus, who wants to kill Dante. The opening cutscene opens with “Demons, you know your game. Your Cameras watch us. Your media brainwash us. Your drinks poison us, and your banking system enslaves us.” I like how the guy in the cutscene looks like the Anonymous guy from YouTube who rants about the government all the time. When I saw a Virility ad with a slender guy in the background, I saw a corpulent person who was drinking it. It is so contradictory. When the gameplay starts, I discover that the living cameras are watching Dante and that he has to take them out. I used the Devil Mode to pull myself into enemies in order to kill them more effectively. I used the Angel Lift to lift the cliffs and hedges off the sides of buildings. Demon lift allows me to destroy demons from far distances and to destroy whatever is surrounding the demons. I like how the game is fast-paced with all this metal and rock music that is also giving me some headaches. In the boss fight, I first tried to kill the Succubus demon on a harder Nephilim difficulty setting. I used Angel lift from one hedge to another when she poisoned the hedge that I was previously on. Killing her takes a lot of effort and she is more destructive at this difficulty setting. I only had three gold orbs to revive myself after I died. I died three times and I still did not do enough damage to her. Then I used retried the boss fight on the easier Devil Hunter difficulty setting. I was able to kill her effectively as she is not as destructive as she was in the harder level. At one point, I noticed a glitch in which I kept slashing her feet after the yellow bars went away. The white bars remain and stay stuck. I finally was so good at slashing her that I received SSS, which means Sadistic and I achieved a high score of 500,000 points. Then, I restarted the checkpoint and went back to defeating the boss. I finally killed her and I was relieved.

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