10th November, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Dante’s infernal, cyborg ninjas, and Crashes.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening, PS5
Before you get excited: no, Devil May Cry 3 doesn’t have a remastered PS5 version, though I’m still holding out hope for one. I bought the HD Collection that contains Devil May Cry 1, 2 and 3, to be able to play it on PS5.
In classic video game tradition, Devil May Cry 3 is set as a prequel to 1 and 2. We start off with a younger Dante at an as yet unnamed, and newly purchased, Devil May Cry shop. A clearly up-to-no-good person appears to give our cocky devil hunter an invitation from his twin brother Vergil, and then demons totally trash the shop. You teach them a lesson or two, though, to the beat of some rockin’ tunes. And this small scene sets up what to expect from the rest of the game: fast-paced battles, eerie enemies, brutal combo attacks, sarcastic taunts from Dante and doing everything to a kick-ass rock beat.
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The above is just one of the many reasons I love the Devil May Cry franchise, and why it’s a series that I will endlessly return to. It’s got heart, it’s silly at times, brutal at others, and no matter how irritating or cocky Dante gets, you still want him to win. Devil May Cry 3 in particular really articulates the sibling rivalry between the twins and explains why it echoes through the rest of the games.