well. i really only played dmc4. and dmc4 may also be really the end of the line.

the combats are fluid, the fighting system in general is just solid and also the design in whole is just great.

in this game i miss almost everything what makes dmc DMC!
the combats are horrible. really boring. you cant really control the fight clearly and smooth the cam is sometimes just faqing no real targeting. also you cant really combine your attacks how you want.

the most annoying part was the jumpfly. i mean wtf is wrong when i let my buttons go and want to use the glide after a doublejump? every second glide simply does not work because of the doublejump.

no no this dmc was far from a very good devil may cry. i want to point out that it was not in general horrible. but ninja theory has just damaged the name devil may cry. when i compare it to dmc4 directly this game is just lame. i would give it maximal 75% just because they tried to make it like a normal dmc.

did i enjoyed it... well i played it 1 time and allready have enough of this short 20 mission (that is another point. what is wrong here with 20 short **** missions?), but i did not really enjoyed it when i compre it to dmc4. but i give ninja theory credits for trying making like a start of the series. maybe a diffrent name would be fair, like: preparing the cry of the devil

Bloom and HDR are noticeably lacking from the graphics, even with these so-called "HD" and "Ultra" settings enabled (PC). Cutscenes are melodramatic and typical, and there's no way to skip them.

borgledeemuh

i dont know if you mean because they are so melodramatic that you cant skip them but technicaly you can skip them. i dont know wich keyboard button it is right now. but on my microsoft pc-xbox controller i can press BACK and the cutscene is gone.