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It’s combat allows for a ridiculously high skill ceiling, where veterans of the genre can rack up style points in a flurry of moves and combos that you could miss if you happen to blink. Thankfully, once you’re given control of Dante again the cheesiness goes up to 11.ĭMC4 is a game that is simultaneously repetitive and hugely replayable. Devil May Cry 4 retains most of that, but starts you off as as Nero for half of the game, a whiny pretty boy who also has the power of Sparda. The entire series is filled with over the top gameplay, cutscenes to match and a certain level of cheesiness that really makes it an enjoyable experience.

The questions that remains now is “Does the Special Edition meet that same level of quality while also improving on it” and “Was Devil May Cry 4 good gameplay-wise to begin with?” The Trialĭiscounting the abomination that was DmC: Devil May Cry, The Devil May Cry series follows the exploits of Dante, son of a human and The Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, a demon who sealed off Hell from the human world.

On top of that, the PC version had two features that really took advantage of the hardware: “Turbo mode” which sped the game up 20%, making it much faster paced, as well as the “Legendary Dark Knight” difficulty mode, which upped enemy spawning to an amount that would probably make the processors of The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 explode. If I was ever asked the question “What is the Gold Standard of PC ports when it comes to multiplatform games?” the answer would most certainly be “ Devil May Cry 4.” The MT Framework really shined with absolutely amazing optimization, having been built on PC first and then scaled down for the console release.