Something something Resident Evil, something something Hookman build, something something juggling enemies, something something about grumble grumble. And that's how Devil May Cry was made, but you knew that already didn't you? If not then you probably work for Mundus or something crazy like that! But any who back in the day when developers knew they just couldn't let a good game build go to waste they decided to take a clunky version of Resident Evil 4 and make it into a wonderful Capcom franchise that was almost snuffed out before it ever began! One could say the first snuffing was the almost drop of the old RE build, but they saw something in it (probably the super fun juggling mechanics) and they released the original Devil May Cry for the Playstation 2 on August 23rd, 2001. So way before we ever played the actual Resident Evil 4 we played Resident Evil 4! But anyways we've had many other DMC and DMC like games to have came out since then, we even finally got that Resident Evil 4 i keep mentioning, so is the original Devil May Cry still worth picking up or are those devils actually crying now? Lets find out and rock baby!

So if this was a RE game at one point in time does that mean that this game looks like one as well? Well kinda in some ways I would indeed say so. While its not really graphics and would more so fall under gameplay or something, the fixed camera angles are for sure a old Resident Evil thing, even years after this game there was still Resident Evil games with fixed camera angles. But another thing that this game has that works really well with the fixed camera angles is the pre-rendered backgrounds, really next to Resident Evil 2, or some other game that I cant think of (Parasite Eves backgrounds look great as well) I think this game has some of my favorite pre-rendered backgrounds! And they work so well with some of the ominous camera angles that you get that make this game feel a bit like a horror game. I really don't think any of the other DMC games really feel like how this game does. If we aren't talking about the backgrounds and camera then I for sure really like how Dante looks in this game, I feel like his clothes are a bit tight looking, might just be a me thing, but something about how his clothes look here look kinda, classy, or something. Like this Dante is a professional, who has been killing demons for years, so he has to look the part as well, cant be having no loose fitting jacket or something! I think the reds and the blacks are a great contrast to each other, there is also way more black and red on his clothes then in the other games (maybe not DMC 2's Dante) as that's all the colors that make up his attire, he's also wearing full blown gloves and boots. Which later Dante's does as well, but something about this design looks radically different and I'm sad they never really built off this concept. The weapons Dante uses aren't really on the bland side, I just wish there was a bit more of them, really one of my favorite weapon designs in the game (next to good ol' Ebony and Ivory) is Nightmare-B its a super abstract looking gun in the series and I wish more stuff looked like it really. Force Edge and Alastor look pretty great as well, and why has no one said yet about how Sparda looks literally like the Gravelord Greatswords from Dark Souls??? OK it would really be in reverse but once I saw the two different weapons I couldn't unsee it! Lastly I'll just say that the enemies look neat and move on! But for real the Mannequins look really neat and so does their movements, and Phantom is just an awesome looking boss. I also really love how the Sin Scissors and Scythes look, and the Blades are neat to, if sometimes annoying to fight. And I know I randomly mentioned Phantom in there so I'll just say that I think that Griffon doesn't look to interesting of a boss, nor is he really that interesting of a boss in general either. And of course if I like Nightmare-B I think the Nightmare boss looks cool, if it fills me with dread every time I see it and know I gotta fight it. And that is what I think of this super unique looking game, even for the Devil May Cry series, there was and I don't think will ever be a game that somehow feels Gothic and horrific while at the same time, making you feel as Gothic and horrific as the world as this game does. So for that I'll give the graphics a 7 out of 10.

Maaaaaaaan that opening song (which is just one of the battle themes) just gets me so hyped to play this game and hearing cheesy Dante say 'Lets rock, baby!' is so cheesly good I just want all I can get of it! And this game delivers in cheesy dialogue and amazing music! The theme from the boss fights with Mundus, or the song from the fight with nelo angelo. Or just the sounds you hear between the missions in the mission start screen/ buy screen, its all really good and super Devil May Cry-e sounding. Dante himself sounds pretty good with his grunts and HUHs! that he makes when you swing your sword or take damage, this is a little random, but I don't like the Devil Trigger sounds as much as later games, like Dante sounds kinda cool here but sounds way cooler in the later games. I mean the aaaaaaaaaaah! Vergil makes in 3 when he fights you in his Devil Trigger just sounds soooooo great, but nothing sounds like that in this game to me. But when Dante is actually yapping, then I'm listening to every word he says, sadly I don't think he ever actually does do any yapping in this game, he just says a lot of great one liners, and dumb lines you just gotta love. Trish isn't as interesting on paper or as a character though so sadly Dante has to pick up all the slack in those departments in this game. But he always does in all these games! Ya know, minus DMC 2. And I might not like Giffon that much and Phantom looks cool, but they both sound pretty neat. For sure Phantom, his groggy lines sound like they are being pushed through lava to get out of his mouth, I just can't get enough. And I suppose the like 3.1415 lines that Mundus gets are pretty OK. Everyone really in this game just sound like individual bricks of cheese and its just great. It never falls into the realm of Resident Evil 1 nor does it sound like Aerith from Kingdom Hearts 2 (OH THE HORROR THERE!) And of course I gotta point out the 'I SHOULD OF BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LiGhT!1!1! Line which I cant ever wait to get to when I play DMC1! Its just a classic line that everyone needs to experience within the context of the game. That's all I really gotta say about the sounds of Devil May Cry 1, its pretty classic and they for sure took what was great here and brought it over to probably every single DMC game after this, even DMC 2 has some great music. DMC 1's sound gets a 8 out of 10.

The amount of times I have played Devil May Cry 1 over again is a fairly large amount, maybe not all the way to the end on each go but i have beaten it a fair amount of times. This falls into the Batman; Arkham Asylum category for me where i like to play this game over a lot of the others as its just so different from the rest. How the combat and scoring system is handled in this game is way more simpler and different from the rest of the series that i can just pick this game up and play it. If i really wanna have some fun ill go play Devil May Cry 3, but if i just want to play the game and not put a lot of thought into it, ill play this game on normal mode. It's very similar to why ill sometimes play Chaos Legion (yeah bet you wasn't expecting me to name drop that!) as the combat is kinda barebones, but enough for me to click with to turn my mind off for the night or something. Excpet i think that Chaos Legion has some interesting concepts that DMC 1 doesnt have, that also wasn't fleshed out a whole bunch, so yeah. And if it's not for just being able to play the core mechanics of a Devil May Cry games, it's for the pretty decent boss fights. I wont even mention Phantom as you know hes a good boss, and that Griffon is not a good boss. Nelo Angelo is pretty fun for the first human on human boss fight in the series. Nightmare lives up to its name and it just depends on which part of the Mundus fight we are talking about! If i had to make a list of the DMC games i replayed the most, this would rank either second or third honestly, the only one i know for sure I've replayed more then this one is Devil May Cry 3, but I've played that game more times then most games i own! So ill give Devil May Cry 1s addictivness a 8 out of 10, maybe even like a 8.4 or 8.5 out of 10, that's how easy it is for me to replay it.

With this being a Capcom game the story is either more cheesier than cheese bread or it's about as good as a 5-layer buritto but its missing the cheese (still good, but my cheese man!) And really DMC 1's story is for sure that cheese bread! How bout we get into all that cheeseyness then? The story is that this blonde woman named Trish goes to this shop called Devils Never Cry which is ran by a half demon named Dante and she wants his help taking out a evil demon god thingie named Mundus. Upon meeting her he notices an uncanny resemblance to his mother in her, who was killed along side his younger brother by some demons, and so he takes this mission personally, and a few swords and bullets to the chest! They end up going to Mallet Island, home of the hammers, or something like that. On that island they hope to find the devil that killed his father (wanna know the name?) Aaaaaand really that's bout where I'm going to stop the spoiler free plot portion of this, the plot doesn't gut much crazier but I feel there is a bit of stuff in here that some random people might not want spoiled for them.

Spoiler:
After getting to the island a whole lot of not happens and you defeat Mundus and that's it! OK it's a bit more around mission 3 or whatever Dante gets....... introduced to his Devil Trigger in this game and his Force Edge sword, A bit later he fights a black knight who has a amulet on his chest that is very similar to Dante's amulet, oh and I guess that literally all the bosses ever knew of Dante's father Sparda. Later on Dante finds out that the black knight is actually his younger brother Virgil who has been corrupted by darkness or whatever and that with both amulets Dante can make Force Edge into the sword Sparda and enter into basically hell with the amulets. Once he gets to the point of where he's going to take on Mundus it turns out that Trish was working with Mundus to bring Dante there so that he can be defeated by Mundus, like father like son. BUT once it was to the point that Dante was going to die Trish sacrifices herself for him and thus Dante wishes to be:

THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGHT!

Spoiler:
And after that Dante curb stomps the Mundus, turns out Trish isn't dead and you guys blast Mundus to high...... heaven? And then excape an exploding island a few years before Resident Evil 4. Turns out Trish is basically a new version of Dante's mother? Question Mark? But they team up to take on Devils together as a team in no games in this series, but still ya know.

And that's the cute little story of DMC 1, it doesn't do very much but it sets stuff up for what would because a fairly interesting story for the series, and you can tell where a lot of roots 'started' in this game, as its DMC 1 but its not DMC 1 in terms of the plot, but I dunno if they was thinking like that then as some things feel a bit weird, not going to get into specifics, but putting this in the 3rd or 4th games cannon or whatever feels a bit odd. Still I'll give the story...... a 6 out of 10.

Just how does one play a Devil May Cry game? well I shall tell you! Moving around is just about as usual as a normal 3rd person hack and slash game, except its NOT! The movement feels very tanky but outside of that it still feels the same inside combat. Once you get into the meat of it all you should be fine. Once you start fighting you use Circle to attack with your melee and lock on with Square to fire your guns. To do combos you must do attacks in certain patterns, like one attack then wait a second then attack twice after, stuff like that. When you start to lay down attacks you'll notice a Style Meter pop up on the right hand topside of the screen, to build it up just land hits. Later games make it to where you have to do carried attacks to keep the Style Meter going up instead of down, but for this just landing hits will do it, so its easy to get the highest ranking in this game of S. the ranks go from D-S and its a good system, just kinda bare bones really, Later games will even give you highest rankings like SSS and what not. Throughout the game you'll get a few news weapons to play with like a Shotgun or a fire gauntlet weapon called Ifrit. Using them is fun and gives a large variety of different play styles, but sadly you can only hold 1 melee weapon and 1 gun at a time but its still enough to be able to have a lot of different playthoughs of the game. There isn't any multiplayer or anything in this game (I know big surprise) nor is there any other people to play as only Dante from beginning to end every time. But if you want to really have a new playthough then play this game on Dante Must Die mode! So with all that ill give the depth of Devil May Cry a 7 out of 10.

This is a haaaard game! I keep bringing good ol' Phantom up but he's like the first big roadblock and difficulty spike in the game! If you cant beat Phantom the first time around then you'll never get anywhere in this game. I think the biggest thing for me is that when I was younger and I couldn't beat him I couldn't go back and grind to get stronger. DMC 3 has a similar thing with a road block named Cerberus, but if you can't beat him then you can still go back and grind the previous levels to get stronger and beat him. So if you ever get to the point where you are just to weak or whatever, then that mission either got a lot harder or just impossible. After Phantom though I don't think anything to way to hard, maybe Nightmare, but no mission is really to crazy to have to do or anything. Really some missions are super mega short, none are really super mega long but some can kinda get there. Then there's the random points where you gotta do some HORRIBLE platforming with the terrible fixed camera angles and I dunno how they ever figured this was a good idea! Its always so hard and I can never get it on my first try, luckily there is only like 3 sections like this in the whole game. if you can master the kinda now outdated combat then you'll have enough Red Orbs to get a good amount of upgrades that you should be fine by end game to take on the final boss. You'll never be able to upgrade everything your first time around but there is basically New Game Plus and what not to deal with. And like I said there's Dante Must Die mode which will for sure live up to its name. Everything will kill you in like 2 hits no matter what and you'll want to cry by the end so it should be Dante Must Cry! Really that's about it, if you can get down with how this game plays compared to the rest of the series, then you'll be having an OK time, once you get past Phantom! Ill offhandedly mention how in Easy Mode you can use automatic fire to make firing the guns 'easier' but its way slower don't do it! For all that ill give the difficulty a 7 out of 10.

I suppose that's how the Devil May Cry am I right? Thanks to the Resident Evil series we got stuff like DMC and Onimusha so its crazy they all came from the same series! I have a very special place in my heart for this game series and its all thanks to this game that I got into the series and wanted to play more of it. They might of mega-ly dropped the ball with the next game but DMC 3 picked it back up and threw it across the universe! Hopefully the Devils Never Cry because I know I would if this series would to ever end. So if you want to pick up this 8.9 out of 10 game you can on like every console nowadays with the Devil May Cry HD Collection or you can bust out your old PS2 and play the original, which ever you prefer, I personally really like the HD collection version obviously! So get out there and rock baby!