Current Events > List of ways DMC2 and DMC5 are similar

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I went through both of these and looking back they had a lot in common. Here are the facts.

-They are Devil May Cry games. This is the obvious one. If you turn the 2 round it looks like a 5. They're even on PS2 and PS5 respectively.
-They have the same gameplay. In both games most of the enemies cannot fight back. Dante's guns in DMC5 and Dante's Dr Faust in DMC5 let you beat anything by just standing there and firing. In 5 sometimes the Furies get the jump on you despite this and in 2 sometimes you can get piled by evil goats.
-Dante has a bunch of other moves and options that are just kinda there in both. In DMC2 Dante has a bunch of customisation options that affect your DT which takes forever to build anyway. In DMC5 Dante has a bunch of interchangeable weak weapons that just keep the style meter up in between bursts of SDT.
-Dante is boring in both of them. In 2 Dante is feeling kind of down because he lost Vergil. In 5 Dante is feeling perturbed because Vergil has returned.
-Dante has a bike in both. Dante rides a bike at the end of 2. In 5 he makes a bike and rides it to the end.
-Majin/Sin DT are pretty samey. These are pretty much the same thing, except DMC2 wants you to let your health deplete before you get your win button while DMC5 wants you to hold LB for a while before it becomes the win button.
-Both have really dumb humanoid villains that I kind of get a kick out of. Arius is really funny with his screeching and King? Yeah, here's your crown is the high point of the franchise. Vergil is pretty funny in a morbidly fascinating kind of way. He's like that middle sized sheep from that one Simpsons scene that gets pushed out of the way because it doesn't understand that it's been upstaged.
-Both have playable characters created by the main villain. V was invented by Vergil and Lucia was founded by Arius.
-Both games reuse DMC1 bosses. DMC2 has Phantom, DMC5 has Griffon and Nightmare.
-Both have a main villain that reuses things from previous bosses. Urizen uses Goliath, Artemis and Geryon's moves. Argosax was literally previous bosses taped together.
-Both have two discs. DMC2 was released with a Dante disc and a Lucia disc. DMC5 has the regular DMC5 and then the DMC5 special edition, although they make you pay for that one while DMC2 was nice enough to let you have both in one box. That's games nowadays for you I guess...
-Both end with Dante going to the demon world.
-Trismagia and King Cerberus are pretty much the same thing. They are, look at em. Oranguerra and Goliath are the same too.

Another theory is that DMC5 is deliberately imitating DMC2. If DMC4 was Nero's DMC1, then DMC5 being the game Nero becomes monstrously OP and kinda meh at the same time just like Dante did in DMC2 makes sense.
Since Vergil got to return I think this means we might see Arius in DMC6.

Additional information.
-Bolverk and Caveliere are more or less the same boss. Bolverk has 2 fights and Caveliere has a fight riding Geryon then another on foot.
-Artemis is a decently well disguised combination of Jokatgulm and Infested Chopper. This one catches a lot of people out but I see it.
-Nefasturris and Nidhogg are pretty similar. Both are attached to a larger structure. Both greatly struggle to hit the player. Both have a kind of duplication trick to prolong the fight, Nidhogg's clones and Nefasturris' second form.
-Plutonian and the Nightmare boss in mission 18 look similar and are similarly slow and helpless. Nightmare has the other two helping him and Plutonian gets some laser traps in the room to help out.

dmc 2 sin dt is way way cooler than dmc 5 sin dt

also coatless dmc 2 dante is my fave costume in dmc 3 (actually all of dmc). so awesome

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/2/AAZsuhAAENl8.png

I always pick that costume when I'm using gunslinger, It feels right. Especially with the Artemis/Nevan projectile barrage.
I think it's because the dark on his sleeves makes his arms stick out more on that one.

Overall thought I gotta go DMC3 shirtless with Royal Guard and any weapon you want equipped. That's a lose track of time and play a lot of DMC3 kinda costume.

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I just did a side by side and wtf I never noticed that omg I've been living a lie

Of all the games in existence DMC2 is... no I just can't do it. I can't acknowledge that abomination. Your opinion is made of pure undiluted fail and has made hungry kittens in Africa cry. I hope you're proud of yourself.

This newfound love of microtransactions, a special edition and they still manage to let the Diesel costume from 2 fall between the cracks.
Hmm.

Orestes417 posted...

Of all the games in existence DMC2 is... no I just can't do it. I can't acknowledge that abomination. Your opinion is made of pure undiluted fail and has made hungry kittens in Africa cry. I hope you're proud of yourself.

What opinion? I only pointed out real deal similarities.
I even wrote "Here are the facts." in the first line.

The bit at the bottom? More of a guess or hypothetical than an opinion.

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I'm so sad now

Actually there is another outfit in that game for Vergil.
Right at the start when he's shuffling around in the hood. Like a worn down version of Corrupt Vergil.
They just don't let you use it.

Edit: Oh and there's two different hair lengths for Dante and there's Nero missing an arm. Maybe also a deteriorated version of V? Exciting stuff.
And then there's LDK, looks better on Dante the older he gets and here in the game he's at his oldest it just falls off the face of the earth.

They both exist