![]() ![]() ![]() It was all about the gameplay back then because it had to be - the tech wasn’t quite ready to really impress anyone in any other way yet. Of course, if all we cared about in 2001 was what games looked like and how they sounded, well, none of us would be gamers today. Going to bed each night knowing that one of the first sounds I was going to experience the next morning would be that high-pitched harpsichord-filtered-through-an-industrial-accident bong-bong that plays during to title screen was far more depressing than any prospect of next-day gaming should ever be. ![]() I was gaming in 2001, and I don’t ever remember being so abused by a game’s soundtrack before. I know that this stuff was present in the original games and it’s not called the Devil May Cry HD (with remastered music so your ears don’t bleed) collection, so I’m already violating my stated intent of “not telling you anything you don’t already know” but I just can’t let such abominations go unmentioned or unpunished. It’s “complemented” by painfully generic heavy metal music that accompanies most of the games’ fights and cut scenes. The title screen alone has the most abrasive and obnoxious music I’ve ever heard. The soundtrack and effects gave me the impression that they were coming from the bottom of a tin can at the bottom of an abandoned missile silo in the basement of an alien museum. Nothing could disguise such a mess of jagged polygons, blurry and/or compressed cutscenes, and ragged animations. There may be an HD coat of paint on it, but new paint can’t disguise the fact that technically, it might as well be from the Stone Age. Sorry, but that’s the long and short of it. However, as it is technically “new” based on the fact that it has received an HD upgrade, there is one thing you might not already know, or at least expect based on the “HD” in the title: the Devil May Cry HD collection looks like ass. So since the odds are most of you out there reading this review are fans of the series, I’m not going to tell you a bunch of stuff you already know. Oh sure, there may be the odd Bayonetta fan in there who is interested in playing her direct ancestor, but it’s more likely that those people will pick up the current-gen Devil May Cry 4 or simply wait for the gritty reboot of the first one. I’m not going to spend a lot of time breaking down the story or the gameplay since the “people who have never played a Devil May Cry game before” segment of the population is probably going to account for a minority of Devil May Cry HD collection players. The rest of us will ask ourselves, “What’s the big deal?” Alternately, we may just sit and shake our heads, and thank Sparda that it’s not 2001 and we’re not stuck playing the dinosaur that was the PS2. Good gameplay doesn’t always equal a good time when it’s mixed with pure, uncut 10-year-old Japanese videogame insanity - and the Devil May Cry HD collection contains so much of that kind of insanity that only the most diehard fans are going to truly enjoy it. Oh sure, there’s lots of good gameplay wrapped up in a relatively nice package, but for me, good gameplay doesn’t always equal a good time. There are lots of reasons why you might want to play the Devil May Cry HD collection, but fun isn’t necessarily one of them. ![]()
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