DEVIL MAY CRY HD COLLECTION REVIEW UPDATE
DEVIL MAY CRY HD COLLECTION REVIEW SERIES

Perhaps the single most important update to the original Devil May Cry is a slight remapping to the controls. In the end, this treatment gives off an impression of just how poorly these past twelve years have treated Dante.

What might have been a good chance for Foundation 9 and Capcom to give these games a nice overhaul to really show how good they could’ve been falls flat instead. Worse yet is how many of the cutscenes in the first two titles are so poorly formatted that Dante and the rest of the cast all look a lot slimmer this was one of the first problems developers had with pushing something that was rendered in 4:3 and updating it to 16:9. There just isn’t much justification or reasoning behind which cutscenes will receive a particular treatment, if at all. Again, even some of these stretched movies have letterbox formatting to keep them in line. While some cutscenes are scaled down to a standard definition television’s 4:3 aspect ratio, others are distorted and stretched out. Most of them are so compressed that they only take up the center half of the screen. When a new item is picked up for the first time, the cutaway to reveal each item is shown with an extremely letterboxed scene. Some of the scenes in DMC1 are the worst offenders to this. Instead of getting smoothed out and looking on par with the rest of the game, most of them instead detract from the experience. Many of the cutscenes presented in each game are presented in their original, unaltered form. While the added touches are nice, the whole package feels like it wasn’t given the attention DMC deserves, especially when compared to what Sony has done with four different God of War titles. Character models were given a bit more definition, menus received a graphical touch-up, and some cutscenes got a little more polish in their presentation. The term ‘stylish action’ that developers like to throw around their new games may very well have been coined from Dante’s experiencesĮach entry of the three received a similar treatment in the Devil May Cry HD Collection. Dante is a a one-man (well, half devil) army, bringing both blades and guns to a fight with the finesse to switch between the two at a moments notice. Unfortunately, this collection doesn’t quite do Dante the justice he deserves.ĭevil May Cry is a true action game in every sense of the word. First released in 2000, Devil May Cry has proven to be a mainstay of the PlayStation lineup as living proof of how far the PlayStation 2 has gone in its years.

DEVIL MAY CRY HD COLLECTION REVIEW SERIES

Capcom‘s latest HD revival of the first three entries in the Devil May Cry series has Dante looking a little worse for wear.

Devil may cry hd collection review