08 Mar, 2008
Ripping Devil May Cry 4 A ‘New One’ at EscapistMagazine.com
Posted by: David In: Videogame Reviews
A few reviews of Devil May Cry 4 have started to hit the web, and EscapistMagazine.com has a pretty brutal, yet hilarious review of the game. Special thanks to JoyStiq.com for the tip-off to the review!
Dante…er…Nero disagrees!
Yahtzee (the reviewer) talks extremely fast, but he uses illustrations to put an emphasis on the sillier aspects of the game. Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the review:
“Capcom tried to pull the wool over our eyes by creating a new character called Nero who is dressed and speaks exactly like the character Dante. They even dress the same except that Nero is more of a…”
“Devil May Cry 4 is a game that really wants for me to hate it - because everything about it is as aggressively juvenile as a 12-year-old on Pixie Stix™. But there’s really nothing wrong with the core combat gameplay…it’s as obsessed with style as anything else…”
“From the entire midpoint onwards, you revisit all of the previous levels in reverse order. This was a bad idea in Silent Hill 4 and time has not sweetened it.”
