In My Own Hc For Vergil, I Think He'd Be Weary Of Trish At Best Post-rebirth.

In my own hc for Vergil, i think he'd be weary of Trish at best post-rebirth.

I think as V he was a little desperate in one way or another. He was alone, weak and literally dying, he wanted to cling on to anybody who could help him both so he could survive long enough to merge back with Urizen, and like he says in game, because he wanted to be protected and loved.

Ofc like op says he wouldn't despise Trish, i dont think he'd try to avoid her outright either, but i dont think he'd be 100% trusting of her either (at first that is). Theres a lot of baggage there after all, what with Trish looking like his mom, Trish being a ex-servant of Mundus like he was as Nelo, Trish possibly being used against him while he was Nelo (a theory i first heard from an analysis of DMC 1 that i really liked, he mentioned it briefly that Trish could have been used to make Vergil more docile and complacent toward Mundus.), and maybe even Trish being a demon.

Over time i think he'd grow more comfortable with Trish, but i think their relationship would be strained at first. Maybe Dante could even help his emotionally constipated brother learn to trust her too, considering he knows her a lot better than Vergil does.

Waving the Trish and V scene in DMC 5 in your face desperately trying to convince you that Vergil would not in fact despise Trish

This!!! 100% this!!

Devil May Cry 2. The pimple-faced teenager of the series, widely regarded as the worst game in the franchise.

While yes i agree with this viewpoint to some degree, and i think all the jokes about it being the worst one are funny... i honestly dont think the game is THAT bad. In fact, i think people give it too much shit.

Ill start out by saying this: no, the game isnt amazing. Its under-developed, rushed, and in no way is it up to the same standard as the other 4 games. Im not saying its this perfect game, but its not as horrible as some make it out to be.

Ive played through the game on the original PS2 version and the remastered version, and although im yet to complete Lucia's campaign, i can confidently say the game is mediocre at worst really.

First the gameplay: Boring? Yes. Definitely. Do you like standing in one place and shooting everything for 15 minutes untill it drops dead? This is the game for you. But you dont have to do that, it just happens to be the easiest option because the controls are so jank. I spent (some) time myself learning the combos, turns out it depends on the way you angle the joystick, and once you get the hang of it, its not that difficult to S rank combat encounters at all. Its annoying, but not impossible, and the combos can honestly look pretty cool imo.

The movement is also another thing, the dodge animation takes way too long to perform but i do like the forward dash. Its a nice alternative to using stinger as a makeshift movement dash, i wish they kept it for furture versions of Dante. (Yes i know theres the trickster dash, but he doesn't do a flip)

I also really love the flying mechanic with aerial heart, and the different kinds of core thingies you could combine as a whole. A unique feature that kinda got combined into other things in Dante's design.

A few of the bosses, if they had been fleshed out and maybe balanced a bit better, could've been just amazing too. Furiataurus for example. One boss i feel was done well though was The Despair Embodied, and although you can just stand around and shoot it to death like everything else, you do actually have to put effort in to not get hit and die. (Trismalga is also kinda in that boat too, a well(ish) done fight you actually have to put effort into, but i personally didn't like it.)

Next, level design: You have to admit they did some cool things with the level design. *some*. The whole "grungy city" vibe is something i found very interesting, and the trippy purple iteration of lower town was, while infuriating to navigate thanks to the camera and graphics (esp on the ps2 version), was actually quite neat. I also really liked the clock tower in Lucia's campaign.

And also, the music. Can i just say, i think dmc 2's soundtrack is my favorite one out of all 5 games. The ambient background tracks are almost dreamy, especially Lucia's ones, the boss themes honestly go hard and the piano track that's repeated throughout the whole soundtrack just sounds good. If you take anything away from this post, its that you should listen to the soundtrack. (I reccomend the tracks "Unholy Relics", "Cry for the Moon", and "Shoot the Works")

The character designs are another thing i think they did well in this game. In my humble opinion, Dante's dmc 2 style is the best looking one in the whole series. Lucia also looks quite cool, her devil trigger form especially.

The characters themselves, Dante especially, need work, but might i remind you the developers were rushed when making this game. They didn't have enough time to do everything they wanted to do, 6 months before the game was supposed to release they didn't even have it in working condition. It was only thanks to Itsuno stepping in as the director that we got this game in the first place, and all he could do was salvage what the team had already created and get it in a releasable state before launch.

If only they had a bit more time (and maybe resources), dmc 2 couldve been quite the cool game. Though, on that note, if it werent for dmc 2's catastrophic faliure and Itsuno's prompt pestering for a sequel so the franchise didn't die outright, we wouldn't have gotten dmc 3. Though i think Capcom would've made a 3rd game regardless of the scenario.

All in all, i dont think dmc 2 is that horrible of a game. If you have the remaster collection, or even the original PS2 version, at least try it. Give it a go, play through the first few missions and kill one or two of the bosses.

Don't take it seriously, just have fun and enjoy the game in all its janky half-finished glory. If you look at dmc 2 that way, i think you'll enjoy it a whole lot more.

Or dont. Yknow, its your choice.

i understand your dante/lady post is supposed to be about the complexity of their relationship that cannot be defined as ‘just friends’ and more-than-friends-not-quite-lovers thing but as an aro person it kind of grates that being friends is ‘just’ that because we’re once again putting relationships on a hierarchy with friendship not important enough to be considered deep and profound when that’s not the case at all.

this isn’t quite a criticism it’s just an rhetoric aro ppl are sick of hearing and something to think about if you’re tying it into an aroace dante headcanon. for a lot of aro people the ‘something deep and irreplaceable’ that allos ‘can’t describe’ is friendship

that said i’ll take this time to say i do love your art and the way you draw trish :)

I understand what you're saying there anon

I wasnt trying to make it seem like friendship as a relationship cant be that deep and important, in fact i feel quite the opposite, and im sorry i came across that way.

That kind of deep and unexplainable bond, to me at least, that i described is friendship, i guess the way i described it came across differently to my intention with the post.

With Lady/Dante i do view them as purely friends, i personally couldnt see them any other way, i was meaning that the depth of their friendship is something more than just a buddy Dante hangs out with and works with from time-to-time, if that makes sense. Its something i experience with my own friends IRL.

Again, my bad. Thanks for letting me know :'D

ive played like 30+ straight hours of baldurs gate and this is my experience so far:

1/ got held at knifepoint by astarion and that awakened some.. feelings within me

2/ every roll is a NAT 20 if you quicksave/quickload enough times

3/the myconid people are the coolest looking species ive ever seen in a videogame

4/ seduced Lae'zel by murdering a witch and making a pregnant lady sad (then murdering said pregnant lady i didnt want to tho but she attacked me first so)

5/ Karlach is absolutely smitten with me (and vise versa) as she should

6/ Gale. Keeps. Eating. Everthing. And when i bought him some magical boots he didnt want them >:/

7/ Astarion is the cuntiest companion ive ever laid eyes on and im living for it

8/ pet the doggo

9/ tell me again how wyll found our camp did he just stalk us or something??

10/ Did some weird fuckin blood ritual and im pretty sure the guy performing it got off on it (whatever floats your boat ig, happy to be of service??)

11/ "teethling". Hehehehehe

12/ the goblins liked me because im a drow, didnt know that but oh man was it handy

I LOVE this game so far, and im only on act one, ill probably post some art featuring my tav soon :]]

i ship dante/lady as much as i ship lady/trish but not in a "oh theyre cute boyfriend/girlfriend" way, but in a

"theyve been through so much pain and suffering together, they've seen eachother at their worst and pulled eachother out of their darkest moments with nothing but blood sweat and tears, they simply know eachother better than they know themselves so their friendship is so much deeper compared to his relationship with somebody like Trish for example. Its something more, something so deep and irreplacable that its completely, 100% undefinable."

kinda way.

dmc 4 and 5 have Nero fucking up his right arm and spending a month learning to use it as a weapon before the events of the game. i wonder if 6 will turn it into a game rule, like dante getting impaled. maybe they only grew his arm back so they could fuck it up again.