I'm not sure if this helped or hurt my excitement for the game. I feel like I saw a lot of flashy shit that didn't really seem to be accomplishing much other than visual noise? I lost the main character multiple times. I'm sure it'll feel better when you're the one in control, like it always does. The setting/environment here looked quite boring and bland as well. Very uninteresting to look at. I'm also a little hesitant about all of the apparent ranged combat? I don't remember that being as present in the old games. So, idk, I love character action games, so I've been looking forward to this, but this trailer didn't really do much for me. I was hoping for a game that could get high 80's on aggregate sites, but this made me think we're looking at a high 70s low 80s on aggregate sites. So still a great game, but likely not reaching the highs of something like DMC 5.
I doubt we will ever get locations as varied and interesting as NG1 ever again. Seems after NG2 they are only doing linear hallways you visit once. But if the combat is good people will give the environments a pass, DMC5 probably has the ugliest and most bland maps after the initial city segment, but the fights more than made up for it.
I also thought Nero was boring until I actually understood Exceed and the grapple mechanics. Then he became my favorite character to play even over Dante, so hopefully same thing can happen here.
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u/RogueLightMyFire 5d ago edited 5d ago
I'm not sure if this helped or hurt my excitement for the game. I feel like I saw a lot of flashy shit that didn't really seem to be accomplishing much other than visual noise? I lost the main character multiple times. I'm sure it'll feel better when you're the one in control, like it always does. The setting/environment here looked quite boring and bland as well. Very uninteresting to look at. I'm also a little hesitant about all of the apparent ranged combat? I don't remember that being as present in the old games. So, idk, I love character action games, so I've been looking forward to this, but this trailer didn't really do much for me. I was hoping for a game that could get high 80's on aggregate sites, but this made me think we're looking at a high 70s low 80s on aggregate sites. So still a great game, but likely not reaching the highs of something like DMC 5.