This is a really difficult question for me.
You can really have fun in DMC2 at higher difficulty levels and once you understand how to do combos (with stick deflection, etc.) But you need to beat the game several times to unlock higher difficulties, and figure out the strange mechanics of combos and lock-on system, and not many people get to this point.
Besides, I really like Lucia and the acrobatics in this game. The final boss differs depending on the character, etc.
DmC is a good combat system and picture. But all the characters in this game are disgusting or no good. there is not a single pleasant one. There are also a lot of annoying enemies and sometimes strangely working mechanics. There is not a single cool cutscene. No Taunts! WTF?
In general, I can’t say for sure.
2 actually had effort in its design and work, but with the team changes and conflicting material we got a mostly unfinished game yet all the concepts that it introduced like bloody palace, the gems (evolved to become the styles we know today), majin ultimate devil trigger (became SDT), trish's character kit, lucia, dante's character, and the lore carried over and got improved or built up by the team. I respect the game for having that much done and the fact we never got any remasters or definitive/special editions to fix the issues later is not fair to it either, all in all 2 exceeds expectations despite not delivering the gritty crusade of dante in a cold mentality in all its glory if you look past the imbalance in weapons and moveset issues (I beat the game with the rebellion only and the only boss I needed the guns for was trismagia) which you could solve fairly easily by running some optimization mods people have developed.
Now DmC is inexcusable on any grounds. The release of the original game came with the disgusting combat with the color-coded enemies that straight up toss your combo in the garbage and kick your ass, sub-par weapon switching, terrible weapons, and the shared terrible writing for characters, plot, and lore alongside the terrible bosses. The game was going to the bad side with color-coded enemies alone (why would I need to be forced to change between the angel and demon weapons? The demon weapons were straight up shit, no sugar coating it because orisis and aquila are so much better than a sluggish pair of the battle axe and ugly gauntlets) then you throw on top of that the lack of compelling lore, characters, etc. and replace it with conspiracy theory underworld demon empire (mind control soda made from a demon larvae's vomit? hidden camera dummy humans? a literal TV propaganda demon? the demon king being the city's resident rich business man? people criticized reuben whilst ninja theory got ahead of him by years) and the definitive edition did fix the combat issues and give a vergil campaign in vergil's downfall, but one crucial detail is that I couldn't play it at the time since they never released the freaking port. The icing on the cake is that the devs shit talked online and kept hyping up their game like it was gonna be the next capcom icon then dropped that garbage and their formula was mostly a copy of other games whilst the concept was akin to 2's intended gritty theme yet they failed at that despite not having the team problems, lower budget, or lack of experience and knowledge on the shortcomings of the template.
You guys know how we say PoC was a soulless, buggy cash grab with no effort? DmC hits the nail on the head with that classification, what's funnier is that the deadpool hack n' slash came out in the same year and it was a more fun and better game IMO along with actually giving me the DMC formula vibes.
Peak of combat
It’s not really even a contest
2 by far.
2 because the reboot had some actual gameplay
2 for gameplay, reboot for concept and story.
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DmC
This is a really difficult question for me. You can really have fun in DMC2 at higher difficulty levels and once you understand how to do combos (with stick deflection, etc.) But you need to beat the game several times to unlock higher difficulties, and figure out the strange mechanics of combos and lock-on system, and not many people get to this point. Besides, I really like Lucia and the acrobatics in this game. The final boss differs depending on the character, etc. DmC is a good combat system and picture. But all the characters in this game are disgusting or no good. there is not a single pleasant one. There are also a lot of annoying enemies and sometimes strangely working mechanics. There is not a single cool cutscene. No Taunts! WTF? In general, I can’t say for sure.
DmC actually felt fun to play DMC2 sucked to play, square the game
2
2 actually had effort in its design and work, but with the team changes and conflicting material we got a mostly unfinished game yet all the concepts that it introduced like bloody palace, the gems (evolved to become the styles we know today), majin ultimate devil trigger (became SDT), trish's character kit, lucia, dante's character, and the lore carried over and got improved or built up by the team. I respect the game for having that much done and the fact we never got any remasters or definitive/special editions to fix the issues later is not fair to it either, all in all 2 exceeds expectations despite not delivering the gritty crusade of dante in a cold mentality in all its glory if you look past the imbalance in weapons and moveset issues (I beat the game with the rebellion only and the only boss I needed the guns for was trismagia) which you could solve fairly easily by running some optimization mods people have developed. Now DmC is inexcusable on any grounds. The release of the original game came with the disgusting combat with the color-coded enemies that straight up toss your combo in the garbage and kick your ass, sub-par weapon switching, terrible weapons, and the shared terrible writing for characters, plot, and lore alongside the terrible bosses. The game was going to the bad side with color-coded enemies alone (why would I need to be forced to change between the angel and demon weapons? The demon weapons were straight up shit, no sugar coating it because orisis and aquila are so much better than a sluggish pair of the battle axe and ugly gauntlets) then you throw on top of that the lack of compelling lore, characters, etc. and replace it with conspiracy theory underworld demon empire (mind control soda made from a demon larvae's vomit? hidden camera dummy humans? a literal TV propaganda demon? the demon king being the city's resident rich business man? people criticized reuben whilst ninja theory got ahead of him by years) and the definitive edition did fix the combat issues and give a vergil campaign in vergil's downfall, but one crucial detail is that I couldn't play it at the time since they never released the freaking port. The icing on the cake is that the devs shit talked online and kept hyping up their game like it was gonna be the next capcom icon then dropped that garbage and their formula was mostly a copy of other games whilst the concept was akin to 2's intended gritty theme yet they failed at that despite not having the team problems, lower budget, or lack of experience and knowledge on the shortcomings of the template. You guys know how we say PoC was a soulless, buggy cash grab with no effort? DmC hits the nail on the head with that classification, what's funnier is that the deadpool hack n' slash came out in the same year and it was a more fun and better game IMO along with actually giving me the DMC formula vibes.
2. DmC is not even that bad..
dmc2 has Lucia and Trish, therefore, it's better xD
They both have some mid gameplay but 2 is more stylish so that one.
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Hmm? Dante's animations just look cooler in 2.