Really fun. Like I know I say that a lot but this time I mean it. The combat system is fluid and exciting, each character has great levels of depth to them. Nero returns from DMC 4, with his Devil Breaker system being his claim to fame (along with his exceed and his charged Blue Rose gauges). The DB systeem is incredibly fun, with a whole range of A R M S for you to play around with. My personal favorite is Gerbera but that's probably because mobility is my favorite thing in any action game - I practically never blew up any of my A R M S except for when I was grabbed by da enemy. Exceed is very fun, especially when it's fully upgraded, and so are his charge shots. The grappling hook is also an insane addition - it's insanely fun to extend combos using it and is great for his mobility.

Of course I love Nero, but Dante is where I had the most fun in this. His styles are back and they're also expanded upon really well. For most of DMC 3 I ended up using Trickster exclusively (but I wasn't playing the Switch version so welp) but this time around thanks to the D-pad I could switch them around on the fly....yay (I briefly touched DMC 4 but for the lack of knowledge I'll avoid talking about how it changes from there to here). Anyways his new weapons are incredible as well. Motorcycle is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery fun (I'll stop soon I promise). Cerberus is back and with even more depth (yay) and Balrog (actually Beowulf) is back but with even more depth (double yay).

V is new here, and I'll be honest, I didn't find him super fun. Like, he was still fun to use, but Nero and Dante are still much more fun. I thought his combat had way less depth than either Nero or Dante, and it got repetitive pretty quick. Teleporting to enemies and smacking them with your stick is still fun tho and he doesn't detract from the game too much as he's still fun at the end of the day and doesn't show up too frequently.

The stages are no slouch either, with them containing loads of depth, and it might be me, but the secret missions are really fucking hard to find. Like, I only found 2 (but maybe I wasn't looking too hard). How the game handles items is pretty cool as well - I didn't find the game to be really difficult - I played on Human mode and only died once, on the Vergil fight. The soundtrack is also great (but not as good as DMC 3's), although unfortunately the only tracks that really stuck out to me were Devil Trigger and Bury The Light.

The only real detractor for me was the story. It didn’t jive with me too much but it was still enjoyable for the most part - I thought the ending was kind of rushed but at the end of the day DMC is a game where the gameplay matters much more than the story (and the gameplay is really, REALLY fun) so all is well.

At the end of the day, it's still some of the most fun I've ever had with a game. Go play this shit!

Honestly just amazing. Some of the best voice acting and story in any game ever period.

I played the original release on the wii and on the 3ds, and while its still amazing that a game of this scale even worked at all on those consoles, I believe this is the best, not to mention most accessible, way to play the game.

FOR the new content: future connected was disappointing to say the least. It's fun to explore the scrapped beta area, the bionis' shoulder, but the story was very boring. On top of that, the party is bad - you have shulk and melia, so whoever you aren't playing is most likely going to be practically useless due to both of them having terrible AI, and 2 nopons who are copies of sharla (who was weak anyway) and reyn (who is arguably the strongest character in base game but istg the nopon was somehow just weaker). They are 2 of Riki's kids, but they weren't nearly as entertaining as their dad (my favorite character in the game fwiw).

Also, the voice direction was just meh... Adam Howden did fine coming back as Shulk, but Jenna Coleman either sounded like she didn't care or that she somehow aged 20 years (not to be rude, I'm being pretty literal here). It's been 10 years since the original release, so it's honestly understandable anyway. Props to monolithsoft for getting the original VA's though.

Only 4.5 stars because I feel like some characters got less attention in the story. Namely, sharla has arguably little importance after the events in colony 6. Melia also gets cucked which is sad.

Other than that, great game. Base game is still amazing but the new expansion is meh. Excited to get to 3 now that I've replayed 1 and 2.