🕺 Devil May Cry and Style

Hey you,

Today's Listening: Groovin’ to give bruisin' 

Many video games give you the ability to absolute demolish your enemies with a couple button presses.

A select few will allow you to decimate your foes with satisfying grace

But only Devil May Cry lets you absolutely slay your foes with a hat and handheld motorcycles while dancing

The Devil May Cry series has been around for quite a while, but it wasn't until the 5th game that it got my attention.

In many RPGs, common enemies are simply obstacles to get through until the boss, or the next story section. In this game, the common enemies are unwilling dance partners and you are a macabre salsa pro.

When an enemy approaches, you have about 100 different options of how to make them regret spawning. Perhaps you whip out some sleek swordplay while revving your blade to add some extra kick. Or maybe you whip out your num-chuks and slap them silly, which is also a boa staff, which is also an extendable whip.

Or maybe you actually don't feel like touching them at all and just shoot your jet pack arm, jump on top of your arm and pull off flaming ollies in their face.

Now, can you also just...shoot them with your gun?

Yeah, but where is the fun in that? 

Is it over the top? Yes.

Is it ridiculous? Yes.

Is it still fun? Absolutely yes.

This game knows exactly what it is, and commits to it wholeheartedly, and as a result, is one of the greatest "Action Fighter" games of all time. It gives the player an almost unlimited amount of ways to feel powerful, and it has created an incredible community of people that love seeing the newest way to send demons to the moon.

I could show you clip after clip of incredible player combos, but instead, watch this in game cinematic. This is real.

Oh, and I'm not an edgy boy, but the music absolutely slaps, even on the 200th play.