AareDub
02-25-2005, 12:26 AM
Phew, I just finished beating it. First of all I have to say that I'm not a huge fan of the series, I played through part one but I gamesharked my way past it in like a day or two. However, having said that, I really enjoyed this game. It was a bit slow going at first, but that was mainly because I hadn't figure out how to turn the japanese text into english yet. All the audio was english anyway, but I couldn't read the tutorial screens. After I got that problem solved I started over and got really immersed in the game.
The fighting styles help the game out tremendously, it lets you play the game how you want to play it. There's a total of 6, 4 of them are available from the start. On a similar note they spaced out the new weapons and styles perfectly. Just as soon as you think something might get repetitive they give you a new weapon, a new style, or a new surrounding. It stayed pretty interesting throughout. My only complaint about this is that sometimes you end up in a new surrounding, or start a new mission, and don't really have a clear idea of what you're supposed to be doing or where you're supposed to go. There were quite a few times I had to wander around a bit to figure out what was going on.
A lot of games in this genre can be completed by simply pressing one button over and over, that's not the case in DMC3. The combo system is great and the difficulty is intense. I started out just mashing buttons basically, but as I got farther in the game I started getting a good feel for the combo system and it made the game that much more fun.
The mission system is very unique and very cool in my opinion. Say, for instance, you start a game on the normal difficulty and play through 4 missions. Then you want to try out a different difficult, you can start from the beginning on a different difficulty all within the same save file. You can play a few levels on hard, then pick up right where you left off on your normal difficulty game later. The best part about that is that all of your weapons and stats carry over between all the difficulties. I just beat the game on normal, now I can go back to where I left off on the hard difficulty and be a lot stronger than I was originally.
If none of the stuff I wrote so far seems to interest you, I'll throw in this last bit. This game has the most awesome cutscenes I've ever seen. They are excellently coreographed and each one will leave you saying WOW! There is a cutscene at the beginning and ending of each mission (20 missions total) and every one is spectacular.
The game took me about 7 hours to complete and was overall a really enjoyable experience. I'd give it an 8/10, and that's saying a lot coming from somebody who isn't really a fan.
The fighting styles help the game out tremendously, it lets you play the game how you want to play it. There's a total of 6, 4 of them are available from the start. On a similar note they spaced out the new weapons and styles perfectly. Just as soon as you think something might get repetitive they give you a new weapon, a new style, or a new surrounding. It stayed pretty interesting throughout. My only complaint about this is that sometimes you end up in a new surrounding, or start a new mission, and don't really have a clear idea of what you're supposed to be doing or where you're supposed to go. There were quite a few times I had to wander around a bit to figure out what was going on.
A lot of games in this genre can be completed by simply pressing one button over and over, that's not the case in DMC3. The combo system is great and the difficulty is intense. I started out just mashing buttons basically, but as I got farther in the game I started getting a good feel for the combo system and it made the game that much more fun.
The mission system is very unique and very cool in my opinion. Say, for instance, you start a game on the normal difficulty and play through 4 missions. Then you want to try out a different difficult, you can start from the beginning on a different difficulty all within the same save file. You can play a few levels on hard, then pick up right where you left off on your normal difficulty game later. The best part about that is that all of your weapons and stats carry over between all the difficulties. I just beat the game on normal, now I can go back to where I left off on the hard difficulty and be a lot stronger than I was originally.
If none of the stuff I wrote so far seems to interest you, I'll throw in this last bit. This game has the most awesome cutscenes I've ever seen. They are excellently coreographed and each one will leave you saying WOW! There is a cutscene at the beginning and ending of each mission (20 missions total) and every one is spectacular.
The game took me about 7 hours to complete and was overall a really enjoyable experience. I'd give it an 8/10, and that's saying a lot coming from somebody who isn't really a fan.