So I picked this up today because I had to take a break from music before I shot myself after making that last 8 and a half minute monstrosity. I figured this would be a good way to just blow off some steam.
Man, I was right. This game is awesome and a half. And then some more awesome piled on top of that. With naked ladies. It's basically just more
DMC, but it's got some cool new twists to the combat that make it a great deal of fun to play. There's also a ton of customization options that help you sort of round out the way you want to do things. Comboing seems a good deal easier now, but that mostly because you can leave a bit of a gap between your attacks and not lose the whole combo... the meter just starts to slide down. Getting hit resets it, of course. The game is also
fucking gorgeous. It isn't perfect, and there are times when it doesn't look as hot or you sort of see through an effect or something, but there have been numerous times when I said to myself "This is one of the best-looking games I've ever played". The cutscenes, as full of shitty dialogue and cheese as they are, are totally amazing. The stupidity is still there, but it's just so fun to watch. The choreography is just bloody amazing.
Check out the
Gametrailers review for a pretty good look at it. They mention the two big problems for me so far: the shadows are amazingly bad, and the non-combat stuff is a bit wonky (there's one section that really wasn't hard, but I did it like 12 times because I just hadn't figured out the way they wanted me to do it, and I had to fight about 5 guys in between each failure).
So yeah... if you ever liked a
DMC game, go get this. It's great.