Contains a lot of cussing, not my own fault!

Please don't take it personal. I've got nothing against your initial impressions on this game. Let me tell you what it made me feel like. I'll start with all the bad things and end with the good stuff, so you leave here in a somewhat better mood. There are no spoilers here and if you haven't played the demo yet or you just can't, I hope this might give y'all some ideas of what it's all about.

The characters. Dante. Remember how he was a smug and always acted like a douche in the past games? That never bothered me a bit. This time, Dante is such a lame show off of a bad ass character wannabe, you wouldn't know wheter to hate or feel bad for him. First, Tim Phillips is the actor behind his voice and look-alike (I think), David de Lautour plays Virgil and Sage Mears is a girl named Kat. You guys should google them, or better not. These are the most annoying cast of voice actors in a game ever. And the dialogues are just plain awfull. Let's just say the story isn't exactly highly cerebral and the guys that wrote it probably took themselves too serious. But that's not the bad part, I'll return to this point in the "good" paragraph. The worst things ever that made me cringe are the idiotic dialogues "complimented" by these Jersey Shore-like actors. Let me give you some examples, I'll do my best to recreate the scene:

Demon (has a name but don't want to spoil): "Who are you?" (so far so good)

Dante: "I'm your prom date, you ugly sack of shet!" (like that, with "e", try spelling it)

Demon: "WHO THE F**K ARE YOUUUUUUUU!?" (exactly how the writers wrote it in the subtitles, plus or minus a "U") *the demon pukes green vomit all over the place*

Dante *jiggles around like a jackass*: "You missed. My name, by the way, is Dante."

Demon: "Dante? Son of Sparda? And Eva the whoooorrrreeee" (4 "o", 4 "r" and 4 "e", swear to God that these are the subtitles) *also lots of vomit*

Dante *bows like a sissy girl*: "Yep. But you can call me Dante the demon killer. Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"

Demon *rubs face*: "You want to kill me? You can't kill me! I'm twelve hundred years old!"

Dante: "You don't look a day over twelve thousand."

Demon *gets angry*: F**k You!"

Dante: F**k You!"

Demon *oh, it's on now*: F**K YOUUUUUU..." *vomits all around*

*dubstep on as the battle starts*

I s**t you not, that's an actual dialogue from the DMC demo. One of the worst, I have to admit, but even the best coversations or monologues have this feel to them as they were written by a bunch of twelve old kids on drugs. Kat is a hooded misterious chick that walks like a tease on the middle of the street, but doesn't want to attract the atention of ominous presences that supposedly watch from the shadows of technology. Her voice is unbearable. I don't know the entire context, but it was looking like Kat and Dante were on a date and they felt the urge to take a stroll. But then Dante slaps the can of soda from a fat guy's hand on the account that "It will kill you" and all Hell breaks loose. Literally!

And here we start with the good part of the game. The actual gameplay is okay. If you're wondering, I played on a PS3. There are a few great combinations of buttons that deliver awesome combat moves and series of combos. The Ivory and Ebony guns are here as well and very usefull, but feel just a bit underpowered. Also, Dante has his sword, Rebellion, that does a great deal of pain. But after you get the feel on the Arbiter (Devil mode) and Osiris (Angel mode) scythes, you rarely use Rebellion. The difficulty is nothing but a change in enemy toughness, and after you finish any of the 3 difficulty settings (Human, Devil hunter, Nephilim) you unlock a hardcore mode named Son of Sparda. Every higher difficulty takes longer to beat enemies, but if you learn to evade and dodge, you'll be okay even on the hardest setting. I have not tried Son of Sparda difficulty yet, but I can bet it's not that hard. The boss is awfull: jump when attacks, change platform when pukes, mash buttons, use the Arbiter to defeat. That's it. At it's core, it's still a Devil May Cry game, no one can argue with that. The gameplay is exactly the same as the previous game, but with a chase cam. The artwork is something special. In the end, I could get into it and I bet there's a lot of diversity throughout the game and story, even challenge, but so far what let me down are the awkward characters with their Hannah Montana dialogues and voices that fully captures the image of today's "yolo" generation. I'm not that old myself, but sometimes I think that after this earth is scorched and some alien archeologists come to this planet and discover The Hills, Honey Boo Boo and DMC in some bunker next to some teenage skelletons, they'll most certainly ask themselves "dafuq was wrong with this species?"