Let me first start off that this was suppose to be the game for me. Devil May Cry is by far IMHO is the best game for the ps2. I have beaten DMC including DMD mode, S ranks on everything. Not to mention even when I finished all of that I kept on playing. I think I gave up playing DMC after 60+ hours. Needless to say I was a huge fan of DMC.
Now to DMC 2. After about 1 hour of playing it I am now on level 10 or 11 I do believe. I think there is suppose to be either 18 or 21 levels for Dante. This is without dying one single time. Heck I have not even had to use a orb, and am very rarely forced to go into Devil mode. Does anyone else see a problem here? I sure do. Plus I think I have fought 2 or 3 bosses. I am not sure because they seem about the same as regular bad guys. It took me a bit longer to beat them, but no fear of dying. Once again does anyone else see anything wrong here?
Now so far as the gameplay goes. You of course know you can run up walls. Let me say I have found no use for it other than to breakup the boredom I am experiencing with this game. Dante is now floaty. When you jump up in the air, and fire. You kind of levitate. If you did not do a double jump then when you start to fall, then you can jump again and do your levitation. Sounds cool eh? Well it was for the first few times, but now it is just annoying. I want down where the action is getting higher stats for more orbs. This jump float negates that possibility as I see it. Thus making it tougher to buy upgrades, or what they call upgrades. Though the way it is going it may not be necessary to buy any. It\'s that easy. You can now also shoot two different direction. I must say this is useless since I have seen baddies just standing there waiting for you to come up and slash them with the sword.
There is somthing new to Devil May Cry. Puzzles!!!! Not any ordinary puzzle, but really silly ones. This is not a spoiler since I don\'t know I solved it. It told me to light blue torches or some non-sense. So 4 blue orbs come out of the floor. They are seperated by tiny walls you can jump over. Well I thought you had to hit all 4 of them in a set time (before the walls and them repositioned themselves) Well I was wrong. After about 10 minutes of slashing it just gave up or somthing and just let me through.
devil mode has changed quite a bitlso. You start off with Devil mode, but his Devil mode is not the same You mix jewls to give you different abilities. Like speed versus flying. I realize it sounds cool, but there is no flying without the jewel. Not to mention everything you do jewel wise you could do in DMC 1 without jewels.
Graphics are ok in this game. Though it is tough to tell sometimes because the camera is pulled so far back. If you thought DMC 1 had some doozy camera angles. Just wait till you try this one. They are just as bad only pulled back. My biggest gripe with graphics is maybe not the graphics themselves. Do you remember how in DMC it had cool intro\'s to new bad guys. They are gone If they are there there is nothing dramatic about them.
Bottom line about this game. If you want a great game to suck put a video game reviewer in charge of it, and not the team that is the mac dad. I wish this game had come out on the gamecube just so the same team would do this game again.
If you beat Devil May Cry in DMD mode. You will probably be like me, and snoozing through this game. It\'s boring, and it sucks. It has some good concepts, but they were not able to pull them off. Feakin sad for me.
BTW Lic don\'t buy this game. Iwill show you the dissapointment at your houe this weekend.
