26th January 2013, 4:06 PM
It is funny, some reviewers are praising the writing as "much more natural", others are just saying it is "far better written".
I can't say I agree, but I think a big part is what sort of "style" someone wants. DmC is certainly "grittier", but does that make it better? I never was into things like Spawn way back in the day, but I do like Dark Knight. DmC's "grittiness" feels a lot more like Spawn than Dark Knight to me. In Dark Knight, the speeches are filled with a certain weight and importance, and there's really not any need to resort to constantly calling Batman's mother a "whore". In something like Spawn, that sort of thing happens all the time, making that world seem like a rotting disease inside and out. A Dark Knight grittiness has virtuous people and virtuous goals. A Spawn grittiness instead paints everyone as walking piles of chemical reaction, where all virtues are just lies the meat sacs tell each other.
DmC doesn't go ENTIRELY in that direction, but it does walk that line pretty tight. I personally prefer the original DMC's style to this one, but I can at least appreciate what they're going for here. More to the point, you can skip all the cinematics and get straight to the core of the game, the amazing new combat system.
I can't say I agree, but I think a big part is what sort of "style" someone wants. DmC is certainly "grittier", but does that make it better? I never was into things like Spawn way back in the day, but I do like Dark Knight. DmC's "grittiness" feels a lot more like Spawn than Dark Knight to me. In Dark Knight, the speeches are filled with a certain weight and importance, and there's really not any need to resort to constantly calling Batman's mother a "whore". In something like Spawn, that sort of thing happens all the time, making that world seem like a rotting disease inside and out. A Dark Knight grittiness has virtuous people and virtuous goals. A Spawn grittiness instead paints everyone as walking piles of chemical reaction, where all virtues are just lies the meat sacs tell each other.
DmC doesn't go ENTIRELY in that direction, but it does walk that line pretty tight. I personally prefer the original DMC's style to this one, but I can at least appreciate what they're going for here. More to the point, you can skip all the cinematics and get straight to the core of the game, the amazing new combat system.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)