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Wednesday 5 March, 2008
Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening
Gamelog #1
Summary:
Devil May Cry 3 is the third installment of the Devil May Cry series. It serves as the prequel to the first Devil May Cry and follows Dante, the son of Sparda, a powerful demon who defeated the demon army. Dante is bent on killing demons in order to rectify the death of his mother. In Devil May Cry 3, Dante is led out by his brother Vergil in order to unleash the true power of their father Sparda. The game revolves around Dante trying to prevent Vergil from obtaining these powers.
Gameplay:
The first thing that is notable about Devil May Cry 3 is the difficulty. The normal American version is equivalent to the Japanese hard mode, and the easy mode is not a selectable setting. Only after dying a certain amount of times can the player unlock easy mode, then they have to start their missions over. I unlocked easy mode. I did it relatively fast, too. The first mission and a half I breezed through relatively easily, then came the mini-boss at the end of mission two. He destroyed me. Every time. Even after my losses added up, he did not seem to get easier. I then tried him on easy, where I managed to get the groove down and whittle his life down slowly.
Regardless of my mini-boss woes (which seems to be a recurring theme) I had so much fun jumping, shooting, slashing and shooting some more through a plethora of enemies. They came and I knocked them down, smashed them, flipped them, and shot right through them. The rhythm was easy to get down yet still difficult to master. Also, I enjoyed picking the style I wanted to fight in. Normally a melee fighter, I passed on the swordmaster setting and chose the gunslinger mode. This allows for cooler combos with my guns, Ebony and Ivory (by the way, the greatest names for a character’s weapons ever). I still manage to finish most of my big combos with my sword though.
Dante, the main charcter, is most definitely one of the cooler protagonists of a video game. He has a smart mouth, trendy fashion and very slick hair. He just seems to ooze cool out of his pores in lieu of sweat. With guns blazing and mouth spewing, I think that Dante is in a different stratosphere in terms of cool game characters, along with Cloud from Final Fantasy VII.
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