I've never enjoyed the directional inputs much either. Air juggling through jump cancels as the most basic example, or the fact that jumping up is a safer and preferred alternative to the built in dodge. Much like a Street Fighter, there are plenty of hidden techniques passed on from game to game that are generally not explained and weirdly enough, to a large degree expected of the player. Likewise I've never been able to fully get onboard with the DMC combat mechanics. DMC5 is a bit of a drab city and then demon world. There were castles, weird labs, a cowboy town? The levels changed, even if it was for only half the game. Even DMC4 which was half a game and a convoluted mess of styles maintained some sort of aesthetic. Something to keep you stimulated between the fights. I'm not that hardcore, and I actually do appreciate and to some degree need actual level design. After about the midpoint I'd say they stop even pretending to design the levels - everything is a weirdly drab demon world with the same texture and minimal creativity. Because all you really want are fight arenas right? Much like a fighting game, the backdrop is not as important as the fight in the foreground and DMC5 takes this to heart. For hardcore fans this is not a thing at all. While character designs are great and some of the special effects are incredibly flashy, DMC5 struggles with it's levels. More than ever I am now convinced the Devil May Cry series is basically a fighting game in disguise, and I'm terrible at fighting games. As a fan of character action games it delivers butter smooth performance (on the XB1X) great visuals and an incredibly deep combat system. On the surface DMC5 is exactly what I should want. Of course there were also challenging sections in the game, but something about it just failed to grab me. To clarify, by struggle, I mean forcing myself to actually sit down and play it. I've just finished this game after weeks of struggling with it and after having gotten to the end and dabbled with some of the post game stuff I'm really mixed on the whole affair.
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