Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition

If you have any love for the original title, there’s enough new content here with the three additional characters that playing through it again will feel like a fresh experience.

Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition arrives in a time when remastered games tend to dominate the launch catalogue of many consoles. Even though many of them are criticized for not offering anything new that their original counterparts didn’t have or at least received some minor additions, it's really pleasant to come across with a title that easily becomes in the definitive version of its own entry. Definitely, a remaster that fans should try.

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition like last year’s Bayonetta 2 is for hardcore action gamers. It rewards practice and patience. The level design can get repetitive, but the levels aren't really why anyone plays a Devil May Cry game.

A good game wrapped in a great remastered package. Capcom could have just slapped together something with a higher resolution and called it an HD remaster like many are doing, but they elected to actually build upon their seven year old game by adding meaningful content. Granted, they didn’t reinvent the wheel with these extras, but playing as Trish, Lady and especially Vergil are more than welcome additions.

The design flaws that held DMC4 back on release frustrate even more today, and even a raft of new content can't boost this to SSS status. [Issue#127, p.86]

If you've never played Devil May Cry 4, or miss the glory days of the series where Dante was fun, combat was deep and challenging, and things weren't so stupid edgy and serious, this low-priced special edition offers fun aplenty.

Little more than a time capsule giving players a glimpse into a series that stubbornly refused to improve along with its competition.

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To be clear, I still really enjoyed my time with DMC4, it’s a solid 7.5/10, but I understand the criticism people have with this game, saying that it feels unfinished. Just like DMC1 and 3, the combat is extremely fun, and pulling off combos is as satisfying as ever, with the polish of the third game. Most of the puzzles are pretty enjoyable and I liked some of the parts where you slow down time, except for the one where you have to climb up these moving platforms, that part ****. There are these objects in this game where you have to hit them, and while it is fun to kill a bunch of enemies with them, they can be pretty pace-breaking. I thought playing as Nero was really fun and I enjoyed using his Devil Bringer arm. It was satisfying in combat, especially during the platforming segments. So yeah, I didn’t mind playing as Nero in DMC4 as some people did, but what I didn’t like though was when we started playing as Dante. Don’t get me wrong, Dante is still super fun to play as in this game, he plays very similarly to how he did in the previous title, meaning near perfect, but my gosh his entire campaign rehashed so much stuff from the Nero adventure, and this is where my major problem with this game arises. All we do with Dante is explore the same areas and fight the same bosses we did when playing as Nero, and while they do change up some requirements for missions in Dante’s campaign, it’s not enough to shake things up. Not to mention that the bosses are almost the same as they were before, meaning that you're still rehashing content. And this isn’t the only time bosses are reused, it happens during the game’s boss rush, and my gosh this game did NOT need a boss rush. I already didn’t like doing the dice minigame before this and shoehorning it in during the game’s climax put a sour taste in my mouth. I didn’t even realize how to make the dice land on what number you want until I almost finished it which aggravated me even more. Playing as Dante and Nero is still a ton of fun, but once you finish Nero’s 11 missions, it feels like you’ve already seen everything this game has to offer. Even the final boss at the end, while has some different moves from before, is still way too similar to his first encounter. While I enjoyed the game, I sat through the credits and thought that this had to have been rushed, which is a practice never good for making video games. Developers need to take their time to make a great title, and if you rush a game out, you’re left with an experience that feels half-baked. I still enjoyed this game a ton and would highly recommend it, but it can’t hold a candle to DMC3 in my opinion, since that’s a game that had its time taken with its development and doesn’t rehash a bunch of content. Still, DMC4 is a fun time overall with satisfying combat, intricate design, amazing music, and a compelling narrative with great voice acting.

DMC4 is weird to me. For each pro there is, I would say there is a con. It's not a bad game, it's just good, not great, good. I tried playing this game and stopped very quickly. It was boring at first. Then i gave it a second chance and heres what I figured out. The story: I would say is a mix of good and great. I can't really decide. At some points it's interesting and had me excited. But some points just seemed a bit dumb and boring. The gameplay itself was fun and the combos was awesome, but camera angles brought that down. But with that all being said, this game has one major flaw. They replaced one of the greatest main characters in fiction. Dante was perfect. Then they decided to "replace" him with Nero. Don't get me wrong I like Nero. I just think he shouldn't be the new DMC main character. Dante was also done dirty. Pretty much all bosses you fight as him are repeats. It's sad. I want justice for my boy

Terrible game, it is almost as bad as DMC2, where do i even begin? The game is unfinished, half of the game is doing the same missions but in a diferent order, the level design is awful, the enemies are annoying, the bosses are extremely bad, the only decent one is credo and maybe dante. The story is absolute ****, dmc and dmc3 had pretty good stories but this one is garbage. The combat is great but the game is so annoying that is easy to forget how good the combat system is. 4/10 bad game

Il s’agit d’une édition remastérisée de Dans Mon Cul 4, le retour sur consoles d’après, à savoir la génération PS4One, 7 ans (de malheur) après la version dédiée PS360. On a donc des graphismes nettement à la hausse et une fluidité à toute épreuve… et (enfin) deux nanas jouables, ce qui rajoute un peu de beauté dans cette licence par ailleurs bourrine et misogyne (et gay, ceci expliquant cela sans doute). En effet, les gars là-dedans sont des poseurs à nette tendance homosexuelle non refoulée mais comme on peut les éviter (dans cette ‘Special Edition), alors on n’en fera pas un fromage. De toute façon, si le jeu est plus joli, il reste un gros jeu de merde bien merdeux qui vous mettra les nerfs en pelote en moins de deux. En moins de deux heures ou en moins de deux minutes, c’est selon… la tolérance de chacun. On commencera avec cette foutue caméra qui fait de la merde sans arrêt, et gêne énormément pendant les phases de plateformes (à s’arracher les cheveux !) mais aussi pendant les combats… puisqu’elle fait ce qu’elle veut, reste fixe ou change d’angle quand ça lui chante et ainsi de suite… bref, elle fait de la merde à n’en plus finir ! Pour un jeu prétendu brutal et bourrin, on regrettera comme d’habitude ces énigmes (à s’arracher les cheveux) sans aucune indication ou indice, sinon des allusions incompréhensibles qui ne vous avancent pas d’un pouce… La mini-carte ne sert à rien (elle reste fixe comme une conne) et quant à la grande carte, il faut aller dans le menu ! de toute manière, on tourne encore plus en rond, vu que la caméra n’arrête pas… de faire de la merde. Enfin, ce jeu de merde ne sauvegarde pas pendant les missions mais uniquement au début de celles-ci… et comme ce jeu de merde ne veut pas fonctionner avec la reprise rapide (X|S), on se retrouve à recommencer tout le niveau (de merde) à chaque fois ! signalons que les enemis réapparaissent sans arrêt dans certaines salles ou certains couloirs et franchement, ça aussi, ça… casse bien les couilles ! En conclusion, on ne saurait trop recommander d’éviter cette chiasse de sale jeu de merde, cette sous-chiasse à chier de chez Capcon, l’éditeur-développeur habitué des sous-produits pourris dans ce sous-genre-là !