[Gamescom 2018] Devil May Cry V - Experience the new adventure of Nero and Dante

During the Gamescom 2018 in Cologne we got our hands on Devil May Cry V, fifth chapter of the series, which marks Capcom's return to its own steps: after the parenthesis DmC - which although not liked by many, it was not bad - Nero and the classic Dante return to reign in a chapter that marks the arrival on the new generation of the weirdest company ever, the Devil May Cry. After playing a good half hour and facing a boss, here's what we can tell you.

During the mission we played we dressed again as Black, the son of Vergil: this time to replace the demonic arm we found the Devil Breaker, robotic arm built by the companion of adventures Nico, which will find interesting uses within the combat phases. Already from this, in fact, the differences from Devil May Cry 4 stand out: Nero's new arm will have different functions from some points of view, allowing dynamic attacks capable of moving the character along the map. It will also have grappling functions and, if necessary, it can be destroyed to hit enemies with an explosion. For this reason, Nero's Devil Breakers will be of different types, replaceable and you can find them by killing enemies around the game. There Red Queen it returns to the form already seen in the fourth chapter, complete with an accelerator instead of the hilt.

The fights are more inspired by the old chapters, and with the camera quite close to the character, which is very different from DmC which boasted a much wider camera. In the fighting dynamics it seems to be back on a bicycle, thanks to a fast and quick to learn gameplay, which will reward the most accustomed players. The same gameplay will reward your experience with music capable of following your skill: the more you collect combos, the more the in-game music will press, making the clashes exciting.

The rest of the gameplay doesn't differ that much from the old Devil May Cry: it will be possible to buy items, upgrade skills and collect orbs, and the game maps will allow you to find interesting unlockables to collect. There are also small puzzles, nothing impossible to overcome, while the boss fights will return to make us fight with giant and ruthless demons.

During the demo of the Gamescom we clashed with a strange creature capable of throwing fireballs from its belly: this interaction allowed us to discover how Nero is now more bold than before, much more similar to uncle Dante both in the teasing phase and during scenes at the limit of the paradoxical. The battle turned out to be quite simple, thanks to the use of dodging and grappling of the Devil Breaker, while the shots managed to take away the right amount of life if chained to perfection. The idea of ​​inserting a facilitated mode capable of concatenating combos automatically remains doubtful: for now it does not seem necessary, but perhaps this will allow newbies to have the same glance of spectacle that experts of the genre can have.

We just have to wait for any new ones, both on the gameplay of the game and on how Dante will be inserted: in the meantime, it remains to wait for theMarch 8, to see how Capcom and Hideaki Itsuno (Devil May Cry 3 and 4) learned from the mistakes of Ninja Theory colleagues for this new chapter, which this time points much more to photorealism (just look at the faces of Dante and Nero).