Devil May Cry 5

Devil May Cry 5 is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom. It is the sixth installment in the franchise and the fifth installment of the mainline Devil May Cry series. It was later ported to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S as Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition on November 12, 2020 and November 10, 2020 respectively.

Plot
Five years after the events of Devil May Cry 4, Dante, Nero, and a new protagonist named V, attempt to stop the Demon King Urizen from destroying the human world, on their journey across Red Grave City. As this happens, the mystery behind V is revealed, along with his connection with Urizen.

Why It Pulls The Devil Trigger

 * 1) After the mixed reception of the DmC: Devil May Cry reboot, the fifth installment brought back everything that the original games had.
 * 2) Absolutely gorgeous and realistic graphics with significant amounts of attention to detail, extraordinarily impressive visuals, awesome lighting effects, very good character models and stellar environment designs, which are all thanks to once again the capabilities of Capcom's proprietary RE Engine.
 * 3) The combat system is the best in the entire series since Devil May Cry 4.
 * 4) The game introduced a new character named V, and his new combat style allows him to use his familiars to attack enemies.
 * 5) The story is a perfect mix of the serious high stakes nature of DMC and retaining the series cheesy humor. It's even considered to be one of the best in the entire series. The stories also connect well each other between the three characters.
 * 6) The humor itself in the game is one of the best in the series as well especially the Michael Jackson dance Dante does.
 * 7) Dante, Nero, Vergil and many other characters return and even Morrison from the anime makes his debut in the game.
 * 8) * On the subject of Vergil, he now has a new ability of splitting himself into V.
 * 9) Great fanservice to past DMC titles.
 * 10) Incredible voice acting.
 * 11) You can use a motorcycle as a weapon along with many other creative weapons.
 * 12) Many plotholes from the series are now resolved including mh:crappygames:Devil May Cry 2 as most of it is retconned and now comes after Devil May Cry and before Devil May Cry 4. This is established when Dante explains that he went through a state of depression after realizing he killed his brother Vergil and Nero helped him out of it.
 * 13) * This would also explain his behavior in the anime.
 * 14) Fantastic soundtrack. Including Devil Trigger, Bury the Light, and the second version of Subhuman.
 * 15) *And That's without counting the 2 Japanese Trailer Soundtracks sang by famous Japanese rockstar HYDE, MAD Qualia and Defeat.
 * 16) *The soundtrack volume changes based on how good you are at the game, if you're bad at it it can get so low to the point that it's muted.
 * 17) Challenging boss fights.
 * 18) The game features dynamic music, that gets more intense the better you play.
 * 19) Nero gets access to both Devil Breakers and Devil Trigger which adds variety to his combat system.
 * 20) The Void and Bloody Palace, two modes that allow players to test their new moves or practice into doing combos.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) No extra costumes for the characters other than skins for the default outfits.
 * 2) The twist where both V and Urizen are the two halves of Vergil was kind of obvious.
 * 3) Dante's battle theme, Subhuman is horrible to listen to (especially the original version), because it's a Death Metal song with nothing but the lead singer singing and screaming like a maniac, something that would fit more into DmC: Devil May Cry. And what makes matters worse is that Eddie Hermida, who was the lead singer, was accused of sexual misconduct. Thankfully, his vocals were removed and replaced with Michael Barr in the final version of the game, which makes the song sound a bit better in comparison with the original.
 * 4) The new art style of having photorealistic textures for the characters rather than the ones in the prior games to DmC: Devil May Cry arguably doesn't fit in a game like this one and is better suited for a something made by a western developer.
 * 5) The dodging in the game isn't all that good.
 * 6) There are microtransactions in the game, and they affect the gameplay. Fortunately, they aren't grindy and since they're actually Red Orbs, you can still get them just by playing the game as is.
 * 7) The Special Edition on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X was digital-only at launch and became available physically at a later date for unknown reasons. Plus, those who already own the vanilla version on the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One aren't able to upgrade to this version for free.
 * 8) Due to the lack of puzzle solving compared to the previous installments, the combat can get pretty repetitive every once in a while.

Reception
Devil May Cry 5 received "favorable" review by critics. Aggregate-review website Metacritic gave the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 version 88 out of 100 and gave the Xbox One and Xbox Series X version 87 and 84 out of 100 respectively.

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Tips

 * It's actually possible to beat the game right at the Prologue in just a few minutes. Normally, the game expects you to lose all your health in the fight against Urizen in order for the events of the game to unfold. However, if you play extremely carefully and attack Urizen at the right moments and defeat him (done much easier if you complete the game normally once and go for a second playthrough, since you will be able to keep Nero's Devil Trigger, the Devil Busters, more health and moves), you can end the entirety of the game with a Non-Canonical secret ending, which gives you the rare achievement "Well I'll Be Damned".