Devil May Cry 5

“This game feels as if it was an indie game made with slightly better voice acting and overall decent graphics (it lacks in some scenarios, like really).”

“The graphics in this game are mediocre at best; the characters look good but the backgrounds, buildings, and decoration were very pixelated, plus the UI was also very pixelated making it very hard to understand what correlated with what weapon.”

“The graphics are acceptable, but visually and thematically not really exciting to me in any way.”

“Nero is still a soulless edge-lord with unfunny 'burns' in most of his dialogue, but there's f-bombs sprinkled in there this time, so our character arc has fully flatlined.”

“Dante became very dull and unfunny.”

“She is supposed to be the funny and smart type, but her jokes are hurtfully childish and blank.”

“Great fun game but the replayability is quite annoying.”

“You can replay on harder difficulties, but you can't replay any mission as any character (even though you can play any mission as Vergil) which kills replay value for me.”

“I already finished the game and to be honest, there is no replay value.”

“The gameplay is fine, I wouldn't leave a negative review if it weren't for the audio, visual, and performance issues I have had constantly since first playing this game.”

“I can't recommend the PC version of this game until they fix the stuttering errors with DirectX 12 and constant crashing issues.”

“This game stutters like crazy no matter what optimization you do; Capcom does this to all their products. They don't even put a half refresh rate option like in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.”

“Honestly, the story was kinda mixed for me. The beginning is very meh and somewhat boring. Sure, gameplay is great, the graphics are beautiful, and the setting is great, but if I'm being honest, the story isn't really all that interesting during the first hours. You try to stop a new villain, get your ass kicked, retreat, and do some chores to try and kill the Qliphot enemies or something. The story only gets good later on when Dante is more involved, especially since you learn that Nero is Vergil's son. The reason why Vergil is so obsessed with power is because he thought his mother died trying to save Dante and not him. That's why he thinks might controls everything, and without strength, you can't protect anyone (his mother), let alone himself. V, the new character, is Vergil's human side. Unfortunately, this only happens near the end. Overall, the story was decent, but I feel like there were a lot of boring story segments before you actually got to the great parts, and the dialogue/writing overall was quite meh.”

“Boring story and ending.”

“Boring storyline.”

“The environments are nowhere near interesting or varied enough to not make subsequent playthroughs feel tedious sometimes, especially in the downtime between fights.”

“In order to unlock the harder difficulties you have to repeatedly play through the game...and just like in dmc4, this becomes incredibly tedious.”

“Being forced to sit through the same gameplay loop, the terrible combat, and the boring design for 7 entire playthroughs plus additional grindy nonsense is just too much for my tolerance level.”

“There's like zero character development; it's like they focused on the gameplay more than the story.”

“Whatever character development is had at all in this game is entirely last-second, out of the left-field, and serves no real purpose other than to provide some 'deus ex machina' plot points.”

“I do not wish to spoil anything, but let me just put it like this: the ending felt as if the devs were forced to wrap things up ASAP and just let the potential for much more character development and drama go to waste.”

“A pile of caca. It's just one big cash grab to get people to buy orbs from the store.”

“Although the game is brilliant, the characters are great and funny and the combat is fantastic, the game had Denuvo (as usual for Capcom's games), they put microtransactions, skins, and an entire character (without new maps, cutscenes, or dialogue, just the character) as DLC, and you need to pay 115€ for the whole experience.”

“Single player game with microtransactions is a big minus.”

“14 hours of troubleshooting later from reinstalling my drivers, all the way to the most extreme option of fully reinstalling Windows... the crashes persist. I literally tried everything that was recommended (forcing DirectX 11, forcing DirectX 12, making the file read-only, testing RAM for errors, GPU for errors, CPU for errors, unplugging my entire system, dusting every cable, asking ChatGPT so many questions that I exceeded my maximum for 24 hours in a window of 9 hours, deleting and reinstalling Adobe, Steam + all games, NVIDIA, and Windows...)”

“However, this PC version has multiple issues. In the time I've played, I've had to deal with multiple crashes, freezes, and my controller becoming completely unresponsive at certain times.”

“The game freezes on the prologue just after Nero says 'Dante' quite passionately, and suddenly the game freezes, sticking me into a true hell, proving that indeed devils can cry. Also, fix this before I burst a blood vessel or something like that, please.”

“But the overall setting, atmosphere, and places are a bit dull, just tentacles and blisters all around most of the time.”

“Art direction and atmosphere are bad about 80% of the time.”

“Capcom's artists were probably doing this to create a darker atmosphere, but it just makes it look too bland for my taste.”