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Probably one of my most ambitious (and copyright infringing) works to date: Dante, the ultra-cool demon slayer from the hit video game series Devil May Cry receives a mysterious and foul-mouthed phone call from the depths of Hell. Rau, the massive barbarian hero of the games ‘The Mark of Kri’ and ‘The Rise of the [...]

For all of you who actually READ my blog, here is a pre-release copy of the latest in my Devil May Cry Series Review: Part 4: Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening Enjoy!

Devil May Cry was a smash hit. The reception of Dante’s first adventure was overwhelmingly positive, though not without a few complaints. Common complaints ranged from ‘the game was too hard’ to ‘the camera was horrible (I agree)’ to ‘Trish wasn’t playable’. Regardless, Devil May Cry was a critical and commercial success, and Dante had [...]

Everyone is going to hate me for saying this, but as awesome as Devil May Cry is to play, the control scheme feels ASS BACKWARDS. Square shoots and Circle attacks with the Devil Arm, which is good, but then you have Triangle jump and X open doors? What the hell is up with that? The Triangle button isn’t a fucking Up Arrow, and even if there was an ‘Up’ button, games that require you to push ‘Up’ to jump suck. And having X open doors but do nothing else? X is the second most commonly used button on a Playstation controller, so why the hell was it demoted to just opening fucking doors?

The first two hours of playing this game with this controller layout was just PAIN… pure and unrelenting torture that made you think that the fucking control schema was some bastard child of Satan Himself. Devil May Cry my fucking ass, The Devil is crying because he’s laughing so hard, bringing misery to the masses WHILE BEING PAID BY THE PEOPLE HE’S TORTURING. Does the word “sadomasocapitalism” even exist? If not, I am putting dibs on it, patenting it, and getting paid a quarter for every time someone buys a game that brings only misery and pain. Shit, I could retire off of the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Devil May Cry. The game that almost single-handedly created the Extreme Action game. Devil May Cry is the father of other games (*COUGH* KNOCKOFFS *COUGH *) that include the popular and well created franchises Ninja Gaiden and God of War, decent games like Heavenly Sword and Van Helsing, and as some really shitty ripoffs like [...]

The premise of the game is that you are a virtually annonymous engineer, Isaac Clarke (named after science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke), of a space ship crew who has intercepted a distress call from an off-world mining station. You and your crew crash land in the docking bay of the mining station USG Ishimura, a “Planet Cracker”, only to find that it is derilict, save for a swarm of Necromorphs, which are probably the best-designed alien monstrosities since the original Alien design by H.R. Giger. And, like every other space shooter since Doom, it’s your job to survive long enough to find either safety, or a way off the infested outpost.

A game as painful to play as it is to look at The story is original (minus the cliche “hard-core marines killing demons to save the world” angle). The theme of going back through hellish-twists on time-periods within the city is pretty awesome in itself, and I like to monster designs, but the whole thing [...]

In case you’re one of the 3 people who actually realize I have a forum built into this site, you’ll notice that it’s completely empty, but that it has nearly 100 posts contained therein. How is that possible? A good college friend of mine and I are rabidly discussing a project that we want to [...]

OMFG!! Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Harold Ramis return to lend their voices. It’s like Ghostbusters 3!!