The motivations for why these events transpire are there, but they only come out in expository dialogue, nothing as graceful as character development. DmC expects you to be equally shocked but I’m too busy laughing at how goofy the aftermath is: Vergil sulking after being nearly stabbed to death by Dante before being basically told to piss off. His blatant contempt for humans has been on display throughout the story and his killing of a child should have tipped off the other characters to the fact that he was evil but, nope, they are all shocked by the revelation. In a move that should surprise no one, Vergil-Dante’s brother-betrays everyone to try to take leadership over the humans after the defeat of Mundas. It’s worth sticking around for how bad the dialogue and, by extension, the story gets. The game plays it completely straight and it’s hilarious in its sheer immaturity. The pinnacle comes in the form of a truly memorable interaction between Dante and the Succubus: he tries to snark at how ugly she is before it devolves into the two shouting “Fuck you” at each other. Here Dante’s snappy one liners are presented as cool quips when in reality they are childish and ineffective. It’s not unlike Ash Willaims circa Army of Darkness, except in that case Ash’s cocky attitude and cheesy one liners were the butt of the jokes.
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Its pure, unsubtle nature works well with the gory and immature tone the rest of the game exudes.ĭante himself is presented as this cool, badass guy who sleeps with attractive women and has a love for the old ultraviolence. Movies of this ilk try so hard to be about something and DmC is the same: it desperately wants to say something that it feels is-or wants to be-important.
The rudimentary message is espoused with a sincerity that I can’t help but admire, all while I’m chuckling at it from atop my ivory tower. The shameless, unapologetic, cheese overload lends the game a charm that I don’t think it would have had otherwise. It’s a simplistic portrayal that may be dismissive of the underlying causes of the societal woes it is tackling. Mundas, the big bad, controls the world through debt.
Sugary sodas are actually made from hypnotic demon vomit. DmC frames every single opponent to its philosophy as a demon in disguise. The story is giving its all to be recognized as “serious” with cutting political commentary unfortunately, it equates seriousness with cursing and amounts to a basic “wake up, sheeple” message. It’s nothing groundbreaking and, if not for its inadvertent comedy and controversy, the game would probably be forgotten by now.
DMC DEVIL MAY CRY FUCK YOU SERIES
Around this time the Devil May Cry series attempted to reboot itself and, while not explicitly trying to emulate cheesy b-movies, ended up making one of the best ones around.ĭevil May Cry (DmC), at a surface level, is a decent spectacle of an action game about a foul-mouthed man fighting demons to free humanity. Then in the early ‘10s, movies like Hobo with a Shotgun and Machete, among others, attempted to emulate the same kind of cheesy, over-the-top style with great success. For me, these so-bad-they’re-good films hold a charm the joy and fondness I feel might not be for the reasons the creators intended, but it is there nonetheless. In my high school years I fell in love with movies that most consider to be garbage-fodder like Plan 9 from Outer Space, Caligula, or Bubba Ho-Tep. Lockesly Winters doesn’t mind a little exploitation.
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