Devil May Cry has never shied away from a challenge, and the series still pushes the player to not only fight, but fight creatively for higher rankings. The enemies range from various lower level demons to massive screen fillers based on legendary demons from various forms of literature. Weapons and skills are upgraded throughout each adventure by collecting red soul spheres and using them to buy upgrades between missions or at designated areas within the game. The collection allows players to start any game in any order, so the story can be played in true chronological order, or played as it original release order.ĭante and his collection of friends and family, some of which are playable, are armed with swords and guns, the legendary pistols Ebony and Ivory. The earliest point of the story actually begins with the third game, and the first and second games round out Dante’s adventure. The trilogy is connected, but the story told across all three games is discombobulated. It doesn’t mean that this collection - and these games individually - aren’t fun to play after 17 years, but don’t be fooled into thinking that there is anything new in this package.ĭevil May Cry HD Collection collects Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry: Dante’s Awakening, and takes players on a hack-and-slash adventure that, at the time, was revolutionary. If anything, playing Devil May Cry HD Collection is a good reminder of how far the industry has progressed, and where developers have come with newer technologies. The presentations of all three games are still very much rooted in the early 2000s, with ugly, muddied cut scenes and 4:3 aspect ratios for the earliest games. It is a direct port of 2012’s PS3/Xbox 360 collection, which takes the first three PlayStation 2 games and pushes them (begrudgingly) to 60fps.
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It’s important to know right off the bat that the Devil May Cry HD Collection is not a full scale remake or remaster.
Now, Capcom has taken the first three games of the iconic franchise and once again packaged them in a hi-def collection for fans to once again revisit the beginnings of the story, in Devil May Cry HD Collection, now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The convoluted story of Dante, the son of the demon Sparda, and the rest of his twisted family has taken fans on a journey that began on the PlayStation 2, and has since stretched to current gen systems with 2015’s DmC: Devil May Cry, which itself is a port from the last generation of consoles. Capcom’s Devil May Cry series has been thrilling gamers since 2001.