A taunting anime protagonist and his goth brother shank each other repeatedly while a relatively nonsexualised female character beats demons to death with a rocket launcher larger than her entire body? It blew my mind in 2005. PC port problems aside, DMC3 is unabashedly a wild wish fulfilment fantasy – and that’s not a bad thing. I have seen the opening sequence more times than my undergraduate thesis. Yes, I played Devil May Cry 3 on the PC as a child.
In the next five minutes, I learned that Dante walking around eating pizza with knives sticking out of his body did not translate into the gameplay (“Oh, you can die in this game?”), which was itself a combination of key-smashing and wishing I had a console. In the first five minutes, I watched a freshly showered shirtless himbo mow down hordes of mooks using everything but the refrigerator-sized sword on the cover art. Hurricane Katrina, the avian flu, the London bombings some of you weren’t even born yet, although that may have been just a brief respite.įor some of us, we got our hands on Devil May Cry 3 (2005), a game that has remained in people’s memories in the same way that landmark titles like Half-Life (1998) or Resident Evil 4 (2005) have, although maybe for different reasons. Hoards of demons, combos galore, and a protagonist pulled straight from an Asha Boutique poster Justin Looi writes on what made the third instalment of the Devil May Cry series so special.Ģ005 was a difficult year.
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