while i tend to disagree with your views on this game
you have a point about angst, the eff does that word even mean anymore or emo for that matter
oh this character shows more than one emotion, oh is just against oh he is just emo, no hes more complex then the 1 dimensional character you like ( this argument comes a lot when talking about shadow and sonic the hedgehog)
and don’t get me wrong, i think new Dante has horrid writing and he comes off as kinda of a cunt
but man people misuse the words angst and emo, way too much and wrong
i also think the old Dante’s character while better written, wasn’t much to shake a stick at , hell Dante didn’t become a character until devil may cry 3, until then he was just some cool dude doing stuff in old European towns and castles
hell we didn’t know what was going on until dmc3, why do you think so many people latched on to Virgil, he offered a better character than Dante, his actions weren’t just shonen hero go with the flow bull crap, things affected him, things affecting is the reason why he was that way. in that same vain i while i like OG Dante but i also don’t think his character wasn’t that good, i feel the same way about bayonetta, just like cool dude isn’t a character for Dante, sassy bitch isn’t a character for her either. sure her game was fun and funny, she wasn’t the most complex lady, but in female gamer circles she seems to represent something more than herself, so i can at least give her that.
though my issue with new Dante seems to be the fact that he is unlikable, like cyclops from the x men , i have read comics for a majority of my life, and i could never really get behind cyclops. he had been through some terrible stuff, but the way her was written he just came off robotic this manufactured play by the rules kinda guy, wolverine admired him for it. but AvX happened i could finnaly relate to him, the writing was better and it just clicked.
i felt sorry for the guy, he had done what he was told all his life and it never worked out for him. his wife was sleeping with a merman his ex girlfriend was dead and someone was trying to take one of students away to basically murder, because the avengers thought the earth was in danger. he goes nuts with phoenix power and gets a bunch of mutants back after scarlet witch (aka the girl that everyone hates) took the mutants away. but these mutants come back due to his actions, which caused everthing, will make those new mutant lives hell. cyclopes has gone insane now, he just snapped he broke out of jail and now he is just doing what he thinks is right. (whoa )
back to my point i could relate to this Dante a little better if the writing and character portrayal wasn’t so bad
i went from agreeing to someone to character portrayal and xmen and back
im sorry